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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (5 June 1656 – 28 December 1708) was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. Botanist Charles Plumier was his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages.
Apr 11, 2024 · Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (born June 5, 1656, Aix-en-Provence, Fr.—died Dec. 28, 1708, Paris) was a French botanist and physician, a pioneer in systematic botany, whose system of plant classification represented a major advance in his day and remains, in some respects, valid to the present time. Tournefort’s interest in botany began early ...
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May 29, 2018 · Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de (1656–1708) A French botanist who became a professor at the Jardin du Roi in Paris and is remembered for producing a system of plant classification and nomenclature in the 1690s. His Institutiones Rei Herbariae (1700) helped to bridge the gap between the work of Bauhin and Linnaeus.
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708), studied medicine in Montpellier around 1679 after his father died. Prior to that, he had made his first botanical expedition with Charles Plumier (1646-1706) through Provence and Savoy. Bitten by the bug, he also botanised throughout the Languedoc Roussillon region around Montpellier and around Barcelona ...
Sherard, William (1659-1728) (student) Biography. French botanist at the Jardin du Roi in Paris, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort followed his passion for plants and travelled throughout France, Iberia and south-eastern Europe in order to collect them. His most famous contribution was to the field of classification, his system being the first to ...
Abstract. The French physician and botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708) set sail from Marseille to Crete on 24 April 1700, in the company of the German physician Andreas Gundelsheimer and the artist Claude Aubriet, on a voyage to the Levant financed by the French crown. Among the many aims of the voyage – scientific ...
Born: Aix-en-Provence, 3 June 1656. Died: Paris, 28 November 1708. Dateinfo: Dates Certain. Lifespan: 52. 2. Father. Occupation: Gentry, Government Official. Tournefort came from a family of minor nobility. His father, Pierre Pitton, seigneur of Tournefort, inherited the estate from his father who had gained it by marriage.
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