John Sibthorp

John Sibthorp is a Botaniste English born the October 28th 1758 with Oxford and died in 1796 with Bath. Botanical professor of at the university of Oxford, it was interested much in the flora the Mediterranean nne and started to write the Flora Graeca , one of the most beautiful flora in the world, which will be published in ten volumes published between 1806 and 1840.

He is youngest wire of Humphrey Sibthorp (1713-1797) which, of 1747 with 1784 is professor of Botanique to the Université of Oxford. He begins his studies in Oxford, then starting from 1777, studies the Médecine at the university of Edinburgh and the Medical college of Montpellier. In 1784, it succeeds his/her father in Oxford.

Eager to find all the plants described by Dioscoride, it accomplished two study trips in Greece, with Cyprus and in minor Asia (1786 - 1787 and 1794 - 1795), accompanied by the Austrian draftsman Ferdinand Bauer.

It takes part in 1788 in the creation of the Société linnéenne of London and begins the same year the realization of a flora of the area of Oxford. This one appears in 1794 under the title of Flora Oxoniensis .

He died at the age of thirty-eight years, victim of a Tuberculose contracted at the time of its second voyage.

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