Pierre Antoine Poiteau

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Pierre Antoine Poiteau (born March 23, 1766 in Ambleny near Soissons , † February 27, 1854 in Paris ) was a French botanist , pomologist , gardener and draftsman. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Poit. "

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In 1790 he got a job at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris . He traveled to Haiti from 1796 and to Guiana around 1820 . He was director of the Haiti Botanical Garden from 1796–1802. In 1815 he became head of the royal tree nursery at Versailles. He oversaw the royal plantations in Guiana from 1818. He later became head gardener at Fontainebleau and at the Botanical Garden of the Paris Medical School. He brought many plants back from his travels. He also published a Flora of Haiti and a Flora Parisiensis with Pierre Jean François Turpin . From 1829 to 1851 he headed the magazine Revue horticole .

As a draftsman he provided many excellent illustrations for other people's works.

Honors

The pear variety 'Neue Poiteau': In German Pomology - Pears by Wilhelm Lauche

The genus Poitea Vent. from the legume family (Fabaceae) is named after him. The pear variety 'Neue Poiteau', raised from seeds by Simon Bouvier in Jodoigne, Belgium, is named after him.

Works

  • Flora Parisiensis secundum systema sexuale deposita et plantarum circa Lutetiam sponte nascentium descriptiones, icones ... (together with Pierre Jean François Turpin ), 1808–1813
  • Histoire naturelle des orangers (together with Joseph Antoine Risso ), 1818–1820
  • Pomologie française , 1846
  • Images of fruits

See also

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  • Michaud: Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, Tome 33, 1843. pp. 601-602
  • J. Decaisne: Notice sur MA Poiteau, in: Revue horticole 1854, pp. 115-120
  • J. Decaisne: Obituary Poiteau, in: Gartenflora 3, 1854, p. 307f. (Translation from Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe , 1854)
  • Rousselon: Nécrologe, Annales de la Société impériale d'horticulture de Paris 45 (1854), pp. 145-153
  • Stéphane Robinet: Eloge d'Antoine Poiteau, Mém. Soc. imp. & centr. d'agric. , 1856, pp. 55-87
  • André Leroy: Dictionnaire de Pomologie , vol. 1, Paris 1867, p. 20f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic 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 .
  2. New Poiteau - Late Autumn Pear (PDF; 712 kB). Data sheet at Noah's Ark .
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