Adrien-Henry de Jussieu
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de Jussieu in 1851.
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| Born | (1797-12-23)23 December 1797 |
| Died | 29 June 1853(1853-06-29) (aged 55) |
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (23 December 1797 – 29 June 1853) was a French botanist.[1]
Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae.[2] When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in 1845 he became professor of organographyofplants. He was also president of the French Academy of Sciences. De Jussieu was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1850.[3]
His main publications were the Cours élémentaire de botanique (Paris) and the Géographie botanique (Paris, 1846), as well as several monographs, most notably the one on the family Malpighiaceae.[4] In botanical references, he is usually abbreviated as Adr. Juss., also sometimes as A. Juss., as his father already has the abbreviation Juss.[citation needed]
The asteroid 9470 Jussieu was named in honor of the de Jussieu family.[citation needed]
In 1825, the French botanist Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré published Adriana, a genus of Australian shrubs in the family Euphorbiaceae named in honour of Jussieu.[citation needed]
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