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29 June 1853. (1853-06-29) (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]
- 29 June 1853 (aged 55)
study of botany. In Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu. His son, Adrien-Laurent-Henri de Jussieu (1797–1853), is best known for his Embryons Monocotylédones (1844), on which he worked for more than 13 years, and Cours élémentaire de botanique (1842–44), which was translated into many languages. Read More.
Adrien Henri de Jussieu, né à Paris le 23 décembre 1797 et mort à Paris le 29 juin 1853, est un botaniste français. Biographie [ modifier | modifier le code ] Il est le fils d' Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu .
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Jussieu, Adrien Henri Laurent De (b Paris, France, 23 December 1797; d. Paris, 29 June 1853) botany. Adrien de Jussieu, the last in a long familial line of botanists, was the son of Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu. As a third-generation botanist he was able to follow his vocation with considerably less initial difficulty than his father and granduncles.
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu was a French botanist and president of the French Academy of Sciences. He made significant contributions to botany, including a treatise on the Euphorbiaceae plant family and several publications on plant organography and geography.
The name Azadirachta indica was first published by Adrien-Henri de Jussieu in 1830. In 1753, Carl Linnaeus had described two species, Melia azedarach and Melia azadirachta. De Jussieu considered Melia azadirachta to be sufficiently different from Melia azedarach to be placed in a new genus.
By: Milne-Edwards, H. (Henri), - Jussieu, Adrien de, - Beudant, F. S. (François Sulpice), Edition: Publication info: Paris, Victor Masson ; Langlois et Leclercq, 1853