Antoine de Jussieu

{{Short description|French botanist (1686–1758)}}

{{Hatnote|Not to be confused with his better-known nephew, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu}}

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Antoine de Jussieu (6 July 1686{{snd}}22 April 1758) was a French naturalist, botanist, and physician. {{botanist|Ant.Juss.|inline=yes}}

Jussieu was born in Lyon. He was the son of Christophe de Jussieu (or Dejussieu), an apothecary of some repute, who published a Nouveau traité de la theriaque (1708). Antoine studied at the University of Montpellier, and travelled with his brother Bernard through Spain, Portugal, and southern France. He went to Paris in 1708. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, whom he succeeded at the Jardin du Roi,{{Cite CE1913 |wstitle=De Jussieu |first=Joseph |last=Rompel |volume=8}} later the Jardin des Plantes, died in that year.{{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Jussieu, De|display=Jussieu, De s.v Antoine de Jussieu|volume=15|page=593}}

His own original publications are not of marked importance, but he edited an edition of Tournefort's Institutions rei herbariae (3 vols., 1719), and a posthumously published work of Jacques Barrelier, Plantae per Galliam, Hispaniam, et Italiam observatae, &c. (1714).

He practiced medicine, chiefly devoting himself to the very poor. His teaching was the subject of a posthumous publication, in 1772, entitled Traité des vertus des plantes{{Cite book|last1=Jussieu|first1=Antoine de|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/237313|title=Traité des vertus des plantes : ouvrage posthume de M. Antoine de Jussieu ...|last2=Gandoger de Foigny|first2=Pierre Louis|publisher=Chez Hiacinthe Leclerc|location=Nancy}}.

His brother Bernard de Jussieu is better known.