Adrien-Henry de Jussieu | |
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 de Jussieu in 1851. | |
| Born | 23 December 1797 |
| Died | 29 June 1853 (aged 55) |
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (23 December 1797 – 29 June 1853) was a French botanist.[1]
Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae.[2] When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in 1845 he became professor of organography of plants. He was also president of the French Academy of Sciences. De Jussieu was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1850.[3]
His main publications were the Cours élémentaire de botanique (Paris) and the Géographie botanique (Paris, 1846), as well as several monographs, most notably the one on the family Malpighiaceae.[4] In botanical references, he is usually abbreviated as Adr. Juss., also sometimes as A. Juss., as his father already has the abbreviation Juss.[citation needed]
The asteroid 9470 Jussieu was named in honor of the de Jussieu family.[citation needed]
In 1825, the French botanist Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré published Adriana, a genus of Australian shrubs in the family Euphorbiaceae named in honour of Jussieu.[citation needed]
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 594.
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter J" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Anderson, W. R.; Anderson, C.; Davis, C. C. (2006), de Jussieu/Malpighiaceae, Malpighiaceae website, archived from the original on 6 October 2011, retrieved 17 October 2016
- ^ International Plant Names Index. A.Juss.