- This article is about the botanist Jean Poiret. For the scriptwriter and actor see Jean 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 XIV 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 Fabaceae was named after him in 1807 by Étienne Pierre Ventenat.
Selected publications
- Leçons de flore: Cours complet de botanique 1819-1820 (illus. by P. J. F. Turpin).
- Voyage à 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.
References
- Zander, Robert et al. (eds.) (1984) Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen (13th ed.) Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.
