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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. He took a medical degree at Montpellier and began practice in 1720, [1] but finding the work uncongenial he gladly accepted his brother's ...
- 6 November 1777 (aged 78)
- Natural History
Mar 18, 2024 · plant. taxonomy. 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
(2) BERNARD DE JUSSIEU, brother of the above, b. at Lyons, 17 August, 1699; d. at Paris, 6 November, 1777; the date of death is sometimes given as 1776. He was educated at the large Jesuit college at Lyons until he had finished the study of rhetoric.
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.
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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.
Works about de Jussieu [edit] " De Jussieu ," in Catholic Encyclopedia , (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913) Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
Nov 6, 2020 · The Natural Taxonomist. November 6, 1777. 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. And although both Bernard and his brother Antoine were botany professors in Paris, Bernard was the stronger botanist, and ...
