Vespasia Robin

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Vespasien Robin (* 1579 in Paris ; † 1662 ibid) was a French gardener and botanist.

Life

Vespasien Robin was born the son of the pharmacist, court gardener and biologist Jean Robin . He made trips to the British Isles, Germany, the Iberian Peninsula and western Africa. He published his finds in 1603 in the book Exoticæ quædam plantæ a Iohanne Robino Iuniore ex Guinea et Hispania delatæ, anno 1603 .

His father already had good contacts in America. And so he was able to visit the English colony of Virginia in 1612 , from where he brought numerous plants with him; so also the Passiflora incarnata . The plant then also bloomed in the Royal Gardens. In 1620 his book on the plants of Virginia appeared: L'Histoire des plantes nouvellement trouvées en l'isle Virginie, lesquelles ont été prises et cultivées au jardin de M. Robin . At the time he was likely to be Guy de La Brosse's assistant . In 1629 he succeeded his father as a royal gardener.

In 1636 he planted a black locust ( Robinia pseudoacacia ). The tree can still be seen today in the Botanical Garden ( Jardin des Plantes ).

Works

  • Histoire de Plantes aromatiques & c. augmentée de plusieurs Plantes venues des Indes lesquelles ont été prises & cultivées au Jardin de M Robin, Arboriste du Roi , Paris, Macé, 1619, in-16, 16 pp.
  • Enchiridion isagogicum ad facilem notitiam Stirpium tam indigenarum quam exoticarum quæ coluntur in horto DD Joan. & Vespasiani Robin , Paris, P. de Bresche, 1624, 71 p. (1st edition: 1623)

literature

  • Ernest-Théodore Hamy, Vespasien Robin: arboriste du Roy, premier sous-demonstrateur de botanique du Jardin Royal des Plantes (1635-1662) . Paris 1895, 24 pp.

swell

  1. ↑ Ulmer, MacDougal, Ulmer: Passiflora p. 21
  2. ↑ Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History 1978 p. 397
  3. ↑ Hui-Lin Li: Shade and ornamental trees pp. 163-164.
  4. ^ Website of the Jardins.
personal data
SURNAME Robin, Vespasia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1579
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1662
Place of death Paris