Joseph Decaisne

Joseph Decaisne , born with Brussels the March 7th 1807 and died in Paris the February 8th 1882, is a Botaniste French of Belgian origin .

Biography

Although Belgian of birth, it carried on his activity exclusively in Paris. He enters in 1824 as gardener to the national Muséum of natural history and becomes, in 1832, chief of the “square of sowings”. He becomes the assistance-naturalist of the pulpit of rural botany of Adrien de Jussieu (1797-1853). It is there that it starts to study the plants brought back by various travellers like those of Victor Jacquemont (1801-1832) in Asia. It is also interested in the Algue S, but it is mainly about applied research, in particular on the garance, the Igname and the Ramie.

In 1847, it is elected member of the Academy of Science, of which he is president in 1865. It succeeds in 1850 Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776-1854) the pulpit of culture of the Natural history museum. It takes part in 1854 in the creation of the botanical Société of France.

Between 1858 and 1875, it writes a work in 9 volumes the Orchard of the Museum , whose 6 volumes describe approximately 400 varieties of Poire.

Joseph Decaisne became foreign member of the Royal Society the December 13rd 1877.

Principal publications

rustic House of the XIXe century. Practical encyclopedia of horticulture, course of gardening, written under the direction of Mr. Decaisne (1836)
anatomical and physiological Research on the garance, the development of the dye in this plant, on its culture and its preparation, followed botanical examination of the Rubia kind and its species (1837)
History of the disease of potatoes in 1845 (1846)
elementary Flora of the gardens and fields, accompanied by analytical keys and a vocabulary by the technical terms, by Emmanuel Maout and J. Decaisne (2 volumes, 1855)
the Orchard of the Natural history museum, or Iconography of all the species and varieties of fruit trees cultivated in this establishment with their description, their history, their synonymy (9 volumes, 1858-1875) Text in line 1 2 5 6 7 8 9
Manual of the amateur of the gardens, general treaty of horticulture, by Misters Jh Decaisne, CH. Naudin (4 volumes, 1862-1871)
Voyage around the world on the frigate Venus ordered by Abel Of Small-Thouars the (1864) general Text in line
Treated of descriptive and analytical botany, by Misters Emm. Maout, Jh Decaisne, work containing 5500 figures drawn by Misters L. Steinheil and A. Riocreux (1868)

Source

François Pellegrin, “One century of Company of botany of France” in Bulletin of the botanical Company of France , supplement with the n° 101: 17-46, 1954.

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