Antoine de Jussieu

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Antoine de Jussieu
Born6 July 1686
Died22 April 1758(1758-04-22) (aged 71)
Nationality France
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, 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

  1. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Ant.Juss.
  2. ^ Rompel, Joseph (1910). "De Jussieu" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  3. ^ a b  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Jussieu, De s.v Antoine de Jussieu". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 593.
  4. ^ Jussieu, Antoine de; Gandoger de Foigny, Pierre Louis. Traité des vertus des plantes : ouvrage posthume de M. Antoine de Jussieu ... Nancy: Chez Hiacinthe Leclerc.