Portrait of Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (April 12, 1748 - September 17, 1836) was a French botanist. Image File history File links Subject : Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836) Work : french botanist. ... Image File history File links Subject : Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836) Work : french botanist. ... April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). ... Events April 24 - A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle with the intent to conclude the struggle known as the War of Austrian Succession - at October 18 - The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end the war Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in Edinburgh Building of... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ...

In his study of flowering plants, Genera plantarum (1789), Jussieu classified many of the families used today. Prior to him, Linnaeus classified plants into families based on the number of stamens and pistils. This put a lot of unrelated plants together and split some related ones apart. Jussieu classified plants based on a natural system. Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné ▶(?), and in English usually under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ...

Jussieu was born in Lyon, the nephew of the botanist Bernard de Jussieu. He went to Paris to study medicine, graduating in 1770. He was professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes from 1770 to 1826. His son Adrien-Henri also became a botanist. City motto: Avant, avant, Lion le melhor. ... Bernard de Jussieu. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... See also Medical doctor (BE), Physician (AE), and Medical school. ... The Jardin des Plantes is the main botanical garden in France. ... 1770 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1826 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (December 23, 1797 _ June 29, 1853) was a French botanist. ...

Works

• Genera Plantarum, secundum ordines naturales disposita juxta methodum in Horto Regio Parisiensi exaratam, anno 1774. MS. notes. Parisiis, 1789.