Pierre Jean François Turpin

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Pierre Jean François Turpin (born March 11, 1775 in Vire , † May 1, 1840 in Paris ) was a French botanist and painter. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Turpin ".

Live and act

Turpin is one of the most important plant painters of his time. He was stationed in Haiti as a French soldier in 1791, where he met the botanist Pierre Antoine Poiteau , with whom he worked intensively in the following years and whose plant finds he portrayed. However, Turpin also worked with other naturalists, such as Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland . He created around 900 illustration panels for Humboldt's American travel work.

Dedication names

The genus Turpinia Vent was named in his honor . named from the plant family of the pimpernut plants (Staphyleaceae).

Memberships

When La Société Cuvierienne was founded in 1838 , he was one of the 140 founding members of the society. Since December 16, 1833 he was a member of the Académie des Sciences .

Works

  • Icones selectae plantarum (1773–1847, Ed. Benjamin Delessert )
  • Traité des arbres fruitiers (1700–1782, with Pierre Antoine Poiteau, new edition of the work of Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau )
  • Plantes équinoxiales (1808, texts by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland; the illustrations together with Pierre Antoine Poiteau)
  • Leçons de flore: Cours complet de botanique (1819–1820, text by Jean Louis Marie Poiret )

literature

  • Société Cuvierienne: List of the Premiers Fondateurs de La Société Cuvierienne, Association universelle pour l'avancement de la Zoologie, de L'Anatomie comparée et de la Palaeontologie . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 1 , 1838, p. 189-192 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Web links

Commons : Pierre Jean François Turpin  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang-Hagen Hein (Ed.): Alexander von Humboldt. Life and work . Boehringer, Ingelheim 1985, ISBN 3-921037-55-7 , pp. 90 .
  2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
  3. ^ Société Cuvierienne, p. 192.
  4. ^ List of former members since 1666: Letter T. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 8, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Turpin, Pierre Jean François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French botanist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Vire
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1840
Place of death Paris