Adrien-Henri de Jussieu

{{Short description|French botanist}}

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| name = Adrien-Henry de Jussieu

| image = Adrien Henri de Jussieu daguerreotype.jpeg

| caption = de Jussieu in 1851.

| birth_date = {{birth date|1797|12|23|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Paris, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|1853|06|29|1797|12|23|df=yes}}

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Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (23 December 1797 – 29 June 1853) was a French botanist.{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Jussieu, De|display=Jussieu, De s.v. Adrien Laurent Henri de Jussieu|volume=15|page=594}}

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.{{Cite CE1913|wstitle=De Jussieu}} When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in 1845 he became professor of organography of plants. 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.{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter J|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterJ.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=23 September 2016}}

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.{{Citation |first=W. R. |last=Anderson |first2=C. |last2=Anderson |first3=C. C. |last3=Davis |year=2006 |url=http://herbarium.lsa.umich.edu/malpigh/Intro/Authors/JussAD.html |title=de Jussieu/Malpighiaceae |publisher=Malpighiaceae website |access-date=17 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006094752/http://herbarium.lsa.umich.edu/malpigh/Intro/Authors/JussAD.html |archive-date=6 October 2011 |url-status=dead }} 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|date=March 2023}}

The asteroid 9470 Jussieu was named in honor of the de Jussieu family.{{Citation needed|date=May 2007}}

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|date=March 2023}}

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