Jean Louis Marie Poiret
{{short description|French clergyman, botanist, and explorer (1755-1834)}}
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Jean Louis Marie Poiret (11 June 1755 in Saint-Quentin{{snd}}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.
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Selected publications
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- 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).
- {{Cite book|title=Leçons de flore|volume=1|publisher=Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke|location=Paris|year=1819|language=fr|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=6679765}}
- {{Cite book|title=Leçons de flore|volume=2|publisher=Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke|location=Paris|year=1820|language=fr|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=6679198}}
- {{Cite book|title=Flore médicale|volume=7|publisher=Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke|location=Paris|year=1820|language=fr|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=6672017}}
- {{Cite book|title=Flore médicale|volume=8|publisher=Charles Louis Fleury Panckoucke|location=Paris|year=1820|language=fr|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=6667397}}
- 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
[http://poiretia.maghreb.free.fr/ "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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Further reading
- Zander, Robert et al. (eds.) (1984) Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen (13th ed.) Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, {{ISBN|3-8001-5042-5}}.
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