Jean Louis Marie Poiret (11 June 1755 in
Saint-Quentin7 April 1834 in Paris) was a French clergyman,
botanist
Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...
, and
explorer
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.
From 1785 to 1786, he was sent by
Louis XVI
Louis XVI (Louis-Auguste; ; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–1765), Louis, Dauphin of France (son and heir- ...
to
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
to study the flora. After the
French Revolution, he became a professor of natural history at the
Écoles Centrale of
Aisne
Aisne ( , ; ; ) is a French departments of France, department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. It is named after the river Aisne (river), Aisne. In 2020, it had a population of 529,374.
Geography
The department borders No ...
.
The genus ''
Poiretia'' of the
legume
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family
Fabaceae
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was named after him in 1807 by
Étienne Pierre Ventenat.
Selected publications
*Coquilles fluviatiles et terrestres observées dans le département de l'Aisne et aux environs de Paris. Prodrome. – pp. i–xi
–11 1–119. Paris. (Barrois, Soissons); (1801).
* ''Leçons de flore: Cours complet de botanique'' (1819–1820); (illus. by
P. J. F. Turpin).
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* ''Voyage en Barbarie, …, pendant les années 1785 et 1786'' (1789).
* ''Histoire philosophique, littéraire, économique des plantes d'Europe''; (1825–1829).
* with
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biologi ...
''Encyclopédie méthodique: Botanique''; (1789–1817).
* with Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck ''Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature: Botanique''; (1819–1823).
Tribute"Poiretia, la revue naturaliste du Maghreb"
is a free online natural history journal created in 2008. It discusses (in French) the flora and fauna inventory, description, and mapping in north-western Africa (Maghreb). Its name is dedicated to Jean Louis Marie Poiret, as a tribute to his famous ''Voyage en Barbarie'' published in 1789.
References
Further reading
* Zander, Robert ''et al.'' (eds.) (1984) ''Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen'' (13th ed.) Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, .
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1755 births
1834 deaths
Botanists with author abbreviations
19th-century French botanists
Botanists active in Africa
18th-century French botanists