Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu
See also: Jussieu
Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu , born with Lyon the April 12th 1748 and died in Paris the September 17th 1836, is a French botanist.
Nephew of Antoine, Bernard and Joseph de Jussieu, it begins his studies in Lyon. In 1766, his/her uncle, Bernard, call it near him in Paris where it finishes his studies of medicine there. In 1763, it presents its Examen of the family of the Renoncule S to the Academy of Science, which is worth to him to be elected there member in 1773. In 1770, it replaces Louis-Guillaume Monnier at the station of demonstrator to the Jardin of the king.
It develops the ideas of his uncle Bernard de Jussieu on the classification of the plants according to a system based on the morphology of the plants. In 1774, it makes appear its Exposition of a new order of the plants, adopted in the demonstrations of the royal Garden in the Mémoires of the Academy of Science , supplemented fifteen years later, by its Genera plantarum secundum process naturales disposita . Georges Cuvier will speak about it as about “an admirable book, which makes in the observational sciences one time perhaps as important as the chemistry of Lavoisier in sciences of experiment”. It should be said that Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu strongly took as a starting point the work of Vat and Augustin Pyrame de Candolle. This work is at the base of all the current classification of the higher plants.
In 1794, it is named director of new the national Muséum of natural history and it founds a library immediately there. In 1804, it occupies the pulpit of professor of botany at the medical college of Paris, posts that it occupies until 1826. In 1829, he becomes foreign member of the Royal Society. Become almost blind, it dislocates its pulpit with the Natural history museum with the profit of his son Adrien.
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