Antoine de Jussieu
Antoine de Jussieu | |
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Born | 6 July 1686 |
Died | 22 April 1758 | (aged 71)
Nationality | France |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany, Natural history, Medicine |
Author abbrev. (botany) | Ant.Juss. |
Antoine botanist, and physician. The standard author abbreviation Ant.Juss. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]
Jussieu was born in
Jardin des Plantes, died in that year.[3]
His own original publications are not of marked importance, but he edited an edition of Tournefort's Institutions rei herbariae (3 vols., 1719), and a posthumously published work of Jacques Barrelier, Plantae per Galliam, Hispaniam, et Italiam observatae, &c. (1714).
He practiced medicine, chiefly devoting himself to the very poor.[3] His teaching was the subject of a posthumous publication, in 1772, entitled Traité des vertus des plantes[4].
His brother Bernard de Jussieu is better known.
References
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Ant.Juss.
- ^ Rompel, Joseph (1910). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company. . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).
- ^ a b public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Jussieu, De s.v Antoine de Jussieu". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 593. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ Jussieu, Antoine de; Gandoger de Foigny, Pierre Louis. Traité des vertus des plantes : ouvrage posthume de M. Antoine de Jussieu ... Nancy: Chez Hiacinthe Leclerc.