Jean Louis Marie Poiret

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This article is about the botanist Jean Poiret. For the scriptwriter and actor see Jean Poiret.

Jean Louis Marie Poiret ( 11 June 1755 in Saint-Quentin - 7 April 1834 in Paris) was a French clergyman, botanist and explorer.

From 1785 to 1786 he was sent by Louis XIV to Algeria to study the flora. After the French Revolution he became a professor of natural history at the Écoles Centrale of Aisne.

The genus Poiretia of the Fabaceae was named after him in 1807 by Étienne Pierre Ventenat.

The standard author abbreviation Poir. is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

[edit] Selected publications

  • Leçons de flore: Cours complet de botanique 1819-1820 (illus. by P. J. F. Turpin).
  • Voyage à Barbarie, …, pendant les années 1785 et 1786 1789.
  • Histoire philosophique, littéraire, économique des plantes d'Europe 1825-1829.
  • with Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck Encyclopédie méthodique: Botanique 1789-1817.
  • with Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature: Botanique 1819-1823.

[edit] References

  • Zander, Robert et al. (eds.) (1984) Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen (13th ed.) Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.