Antoine de Jussieu (6 July 168622 April 1758) was a French naturalist,

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, and

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. Jussieu was born in

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, the son of Christophe de Jussieu (or Dejussieu), an apothecary of some repute, who published a ''Nouveau traité de la theriaque'' (1708). Antoine studied at the University of

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, and travelled with his brother Bernard through

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, and southern France. He went to

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in 1708. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, whom he succeeded at the Jardin du Roi, later the Jardin des Plantes, died in that year. 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

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, chiefly devoting himself to the very poor. His teaching was the subject of a posthumous publication, in 1772, entitled ''Traité des vertus des plantes''''.'' His brother Bernard de Jussieu is better known.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jussieu, Antoine De 1686 births 1758 deaths Scientists from Lyon 18th-century French botanists 18th-century French physicians Botanists with author abbreviations Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the French Academy of Sciences Physicians from Lyon