Edit History
Poiret, Jean Louis Marie (1755-1834)
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Jean Louis Marie
Last name
Poiret
Initials
J.L.M.
Life Dates
1755 - 1834
Collecting Dates
1785 - 1786
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Bryophytes
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
P-CO (main), P-LA (main), BR, FI, H, P, UPS
Countries
North Africa: Algeria, TunisiaEurope: FranceMadagascan region: Madagascar
Biography
Jean Louis Marie Poiret, clergyman and botanist, was born in Saint-Quentin, Picardy. He carried out significant exploration in Algeria in 1785-1786. The aim of the expedition, sponsored by King Louis XVI, was to produce an inventory of the flora of Barbary, and resulted in Poiret’s 1789 work Voyage en Barbarie. He later served as a professor at the École Centrale in Aisne, France. Among his other written works were Histoire philosophique, littéraire, économique des plantes d'Europe (1825-1829), Encyclopédie Méthodique: Botanique (1816, with J.B. Lamarck) and Flore médicale (1833-1835, as a co-author). Poiret died in Paris in April 1834. The genus Poiretia Cav. is named in his honour, as is the online journal Poiretia.
Sources:
Anon, 1973, "HI-IAPT Portraits of Botanists No. 47. Jean Louis Marie Poiret", Taxon, 22(5/6): 590
F. Cardew, 1953, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 78: 293-294
N. Hall, 1978, Botanists of the Eucalypts: 104
A. Lasègue, 1845, Musée botanique de M. Benjamin Delessert: 59, 316, 321, 441, 504.
Sources:
Anon, 1973, "HI-IAPT Portraits of Botanists No. 47. Jean Louis Marie Poiret", Taxon, 22(5/6): 590
F. Cardew, 1953, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 78: 293-294
N. Hall, 1978, Botanists of the Eucalypts: 104
A. Lasègue, 1845, Musée botanique de M. Benjamin Delessert: 59, 316, 321, 441, 504.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 500; Dorr, L.J. Pl. Collectors Madagasc. Comoro Is. (1997): 353; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 694;
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Jean Louis Marie
Last name
Poiret
Initials
J.L.M.
Life Dates
1755 - 1834
Collecting Dates
1785 - 1786
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Bryophytes
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
P-CO (main), P-LA (main), BR, FI, H, P, UPS
Countries
North Africa: Algeria, TunisiaEurope: FranceMadagascan region: Madagascar
Biography
Jean Louis Marie Poiret, clergyman and botanist, was born in Saint-Quentin, Picardy. He carried out significant exploration in Algeria in 1785-1786. The aim of the expedition, sponsored by King Louis XVI, was to produce an inventory of the flora of Barbary, and resulted in Poiret’s 1789 work Voyage en Barbarie. He later served as a professor at the École Centrale in Aisne, France. Among his other written works were Histoire philosophique, littéraire, économique des plantes d'Europe (1825-1829), Encyclopédie Méthodique: Botanique (1816, with J.B. Lamarck) and Flore médicale (1833-1835, as a co-author). Poiret died in Paris in April 1834. The genus Poiretia Cav. is named in his honour, as is the online journal Poiretia.
Sources:
Anon, 1973, "HI-IAPT Portraits of Botanists No. 47. Jean Louis Marie Poiret", Taxon, 22(5/6): 590
F. Cardew, 1953, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 78: 293-294
N. Hall, 1978, Botanists of the Eucalypts: 104
A. Lasègue, 1845, Musée botanique de M. Benjamin Delessert: 59, 316, 321, 441, 504.
Sources:
Anon, 1973, "HI-IAPT Portraits of Botanists No. 47. Jean Louis Marie Poiret", Taxon, 22(5/6): 590
F. Cardew, 1953, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 78: 293-294
N. Hall, 1978, Botanists of the Eucalypts: 104
A. Lasègue, 1845, Musée botanique de M. Benjamin Delessert: 59, 316, 321, 441, 504.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 500; Dorr, L.J. Pl. Collectors Madagasc. Comoro Is. (1997): 353; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 694;
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Jean Louis Marie
Last name
Poiret
Initials
J.L.M.
Life Dates
1755 - 1834
Collecting Dates
1785 - 1786
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Bryophytes
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
P-CO (main), P-LA (main), BR, FI, H, P, UPS
Countries
North Africa: Algeria, TunisiaEurope: FranceMadagascan region: Madagascar
Biography
Jean Louis Marie Poiret, clergyman and botanist, was born in Saint-Quentin, Picardy. He carried out significant exploration in Algeria in 1785-1786. The aim of the expedition, sponsored by King Louis XVI, was to produce an inventory of the flora of Barbary, and resulted in Poiret’s 1789 work Voyage en Barbarie. He later served as a professor at the École Centrale in Aisne, France. Among his other written works were Histoire philosophique, littéraire, économique des plantes d'Europe (1825-1829), Encyclopédie Méthodique: Botanique (1816, with J.B. Lamarck) and Flore médicale (1833-1835, as a co-author). Poiret died in Paris in April 1834. The genus Poiretia Cav. is named in his honour, as is the online journal Poiretia.
Sources:
Anon, 1973, "HI-IAPT Portraits of Botanists No. 47. Jean Louis Marie Poiret", Taxon, 22(5/6): 590
F. Cardew, 1953, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 78: 293-294
N. Hall, 1978, Botanists of the Eucalypts: 104
A. Lasègue, 1845, Musée botanique de M. Benjamin Delessert: 59, 316, 321, 441, 504.
Sources:
Anon, 1973, "HI-IAPT Portraits of Botanists No. 47. Jean Louis Marie Poiret", Taxon, 22(5/6): 590
F. Cardew, 1953, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 78: 293-294
N. Hall, 1978, Botanists of the Eucalypts: 104
A. Lasègue, 1845, Musée botanique de M. Benjamin Delessert: 59, 316, 321, 441, 504.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 500; Dorr, L.J. Pl. Collectors Madagasc. Comoro Is. (1997): 353; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 694;
╳
We're sorry. You don't appear to have permission to access the item.
Full access to these resources typically requires affiliation with a partnering organization. (For example, researchers are often granted access through their affiliation with a university library.)
If you have an institutional affiliation that provides you access, try logging in via your institution
Have access with an individual account? Login here
If you would like to learn more about access options or believe you received this message in error, please contact us.