Jean Louis Marie 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 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 Fabaceae was named after him in 1807 by Étienne Pierre Ventenat.

elected publications

* "Leçons de flore: Cours complet de botanique" 1819-1820 (illus. by P. J. F. Turpin).
* "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 naturalistic journal created in 2008. It talks (in french) about flora and fauna inventory, description and mapping in north-western Africa (Maghreb). Its name is signed to Jean Louis Marie Poiret, as a tribute to its famous « Voyage en Barbarie » edited in 1789.

References

* Zander, Robert "et al." (eds.) (1984) "Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen" (13^th ed.) Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.