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Faurie, Urbain Jean (1847-1915)
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)
Urbain Jean
Last name
Faurie
Initials
U.J.
Life Dates
1847 - 1915
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Bryophytes
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
P (main), A, B, BISH, BM, BR, C, E, F, G, GH, H, K, KYO, L, LE, MO, NCY, PC, PNH, S, US, W, WU
Countries
North American region: United StatesJapanese region: South Korea, Japan, North KoreaNorth Asia: Russian FederationEurope: FranceChinese region: China, Taiwan
Biography
French missionary and botanist. Père Urbain Faurie was born at Dunières. He joined the Society of Foreign Missionaries in 1869 and after being ordained priest in 1873 went to work in Japan, arriving in Niigata in 1874. Nine years on he was to be found at Hakodate on Japan's northern island, Hokkaido, which he explored from the Straits of Tsugaru to Aomori in 1897. In the preceding years he had also collected plants in northern and central Honshu and on Kyushu, and visited the northern Ryukyu islands and southern Korea. After his time in Hokkaido he moved to Formosa (Taiwan), where he spent the rest of his days. His collection of several hundred thousand herbarium specimens was deposited in Paris, with duplicates at the University of Kyoto, the British Museum, Kew and elsewhere. Faurie died at Taihoku, Formosa. Many plant species are named in his honour, such as the alpine poppy Papaver fauriei (Fedde) Fedde ex Miyabe & Tatew. and the alder Alnus fauriei H.Lév. & Vaniot.
Soures:
P. Barnes, 2001, "Japan's botanical sunrise", Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 18(1): 117-131
J.H. Barnhart, 1965, Biographical Notes Upon Botanists, 1: 529
B. Hayata, 1916, "Père Urbain Faurie", The Botanical Magazine: 267-272.
Soures:
P. Barnes, 2001, "Japan's botanical sunrise", Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 18(1): 117-131
J.H. Barnhart, 1965, Biographical Notes Upon Botanists, 1: 529
B. Hayata, 1916, "Père Urbain Faurie", The Botanical Magazine: 267-272.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 195; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 22; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 191;
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)
Urbain Jean
Last name
Faurie
Initials
U.J.
Life Dates
1847 - 1915
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Bryophytes
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
P (main), A, B, BISH, BM, BR, C, E, F, G, GH, H, K, KYO, L, LE, MO, NCY, PC, PNH, S, US, W, WU
Countries
North American region: United StatesJapanese region: South Korea, Japan, North KoreaNorth Asia: Russian FederationEurope: FranceChinese region: China, Taiwan
Biography
French missionary and botanist. Père Urbain Faurie was born at Dunières. He joined the Society of Foreign Missionaries in 1869 and after being ordained priest in 1873 went to work in Japan, arriving in Niigata in 1874. Nine years on he was to be found at Hakodate on Japan's northern island, Hokkaido, which he explored from the Straits of Tsugaru to Aomori in 1897. In the preceding years he had also collected plants in northern and central Honshu and on Kyushu, and visited the northern Ryukyu islands and southern Korea. After his time in Hokkaido he moved to Formosa (Taiwan), where he spent the rest of his days. His collection of several hundred thousand herbarium specimens was deposited in Paris, with duplicates at the University of Kyoto, the British Museum, Kew and elsewhere. Faurie died at Taihoku, Formosa. Many plant species are named in his honour, such as the alpine poppy Papaver fauriei (Fedde) Fedde ex Miyabe & Tatew. and the alder Alnus fauriei H.Lév. & Vaniot.
Soures:
P. Barnes, 2001, "Japan's botanical sunrise", Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 18(1): 117-131
J.H. Barnhart, 1965, Biographical Notes Upon Botanists, 1: 529
B. Hayata, 1916, "Père Urbain Faurie", The Botanical Magazine: 267-272.
Soures:
P. Barnes, 2001, "Japan's botanical sunrise", Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 18(1): 117-131
J.H. Barnhart, 1965, Biographical Notes Upon Botanists, 1: 529
B. Hayata, 1916, "Père Urbain Faurie", The Botanical Magazine: 267-272.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 195; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 22; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 191;
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