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French. Scientific career. Fields. Natural History. Bernard de Jussieu ( French pronunciation: [bɛʁnaʁ də ʒysjø]; 17 August 1699 – 6 November 1777) was a French naturalist, younger brother of Antoine de Jussieu . Bernard de Jussieu was born in Lyon.
- 6 November 1777 (aged 78)
- Natural History
Mar 18, 2024 · Bernard de Jussieu (born Aug. 17, 1699, Lyon—died Nov. 6, 1777, Paris) was a French botanist who founded a method of plant classification based on the anatomical characters of the plant embryo. After studying medicine at Montpellier , he became in 1722 subdemonstrator of plants in the Jardin du Roi, Paris .
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Bernard de Jussieu. 1699-1777. French physician-botanist who was one of three brothers, all botanists, The brothers along with their descendants made major contributions to the field of plant science over at least four generations. Bernard accompanied his elder brother Antoine on a botanizing expedition to Spain in 1716.
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Bernard de Jussieu (1699-1777) earned a medical degree in 1720. Along with Antoine-Laurent (1748-1836), nephew of Bernard, and Adrien-Henri (1797-1853), son of Antoine, they formed a family of French botanists. Bernard soon gave up medicine to work at the Jardin de Plantes in Paris.
Nov 6, 2020 · The Natural Taxonomist. Today is the anniversary of the death of the French naturalist and botanist Bernard Jussieu. We remember Bernard for developing the first natural classification of flowering plants. One time, after botanizing in Lebanon, Bernard was sailing back to France.
Nov 10, 2023 · In particular, Linnaeus and Bernard de Jussieu devoted their work to finding the best combination of classification criteria to reproduce the order of nature, by an extensive study of plant species – an unfinished work for both methods, which Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu would continue.
Bernard de Jussieu (1699-1777) was a French naturalist and brother of Anthoine de Jussieu. He earned his MD at Montpellier and practised medicine from 1720. Jussieu joined the Jardin des Plantes in 1722, edited a new edition of Tournefort’s ‘Histoire des plantes’ in 1725, and was admitted into the Academie des sciences in the same year.
