Jean Louis Marie 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 XVI 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 legume family Fabaceae was named after him in 1807 by Étienne Pierre Ventenat.
Selected publications
- Coquilles fluviatiles et terrestres observées dans le département de l'Aisne et aux environs de Paris. Prodrome. - pp. i-xi [1-11], 1-119. Paris. (Barrois, Soissons); (1801).
Leçons de flore: Cours complet de botanique (1819–1820); (illus. by P. J. F. Turpin).
Voyage en 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).
Tribute
"Poiretia, la revue naturaliste du Maghreb" is a free online natural history journal created in 2008. It discusses (in French) the flora and fauna inventory, description and mapping in north-western Africa (Maghreb). Its name is dedicated to Jean Louis Marie Poiret, as a tribute to his famous Voyage en Barbarie published in 1789.
References
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ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.