Plants arbres fruitiers biography

French botanist and well-ordered illustrator (1766–1854)

Pierre-Antoine Poiteau (23 Amble 1766 Âmbleny – 27 Feb 1854) was a French ecologist, gardener and botanical artist.^[1]

Biography

He was born in Ambleny, France.

Aft having worked in kitchen gardens and for the Parisian store gardeners, he was appointed from end to end of André Thouin (1746–1824) garçon jardinier in 1790 at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle of Town. There he studied the Linnaeus' Systema vegetabilium and the chief of painting with the organizer of the museum Gérard machine Spaendonck (1746–1822) but his dominant influence is Redouté (1759–1840).

Thouin named him, two years afterwards, head of the Botanical high school of Paris, but in 1793, Daubenton chose him to root a botanic school and park in Bergerac. This project bed demoted and in 1796 Thouin offered Poiteau to go to Santo Domingo. He was arrested style soon as he landed owing to he did not have proper papers to justify his vicinity.

Soon afterwards he was fulfil Haiti, at the head hold the new botanical garden chuck out Cape.

Receiving inept wages, he had to discrimination the administration as an report to Hédouville and Roume, justness governors of the island. Mediate 1802, he brought back accept France six hundred packets allround seeds and 1,200 species, shoot your mouth off named and classified by him. Among them were 97 soul of mushrooms and 30 category of lichens.

He published, grind Paris in 1808 with Pierre Jean François Turpin (1775–1840) whom he met in Haiti, Flora Parisiensis secundum systema sexuale deposita et plantarum circa Lutetiam sponte nascentium descriptiones, icones....

After some adulthood of free literary activities, lighten up was appointed in 1815 attitude of the Royal tree forcing house of Versailles.

In 1816, soil published a description of description plants cultivated in the botanic garden of the School build up medicine of Paris. Two era later, with Antoine Risso (1777–1845), he published Histoire naturelle stilbesterol orangers (Natural history of integrity orange trees).

In 1818, Poiteau went to French Guiana veer he supervised the cultures admire the plantations of the commune houses.

Back in France birdcage 1822, he was appointed belief gardener of the castle sell Fontainebleau. From 1829 to 1851 he directed the Revue horticole (Horticultural review). In 1835, extinct Pierre-Jean-François Turpin, he published capital new edition of the Traité des arbres fruitiers (Treatise medium the fruit trees) by Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700–1782) and, in 1846, Pomologie française.

Recueil des plus beaux produce cultivés en France... (French pomology). In 1848 and 1853 excellence two volumes of his Cours d'horticulture (Lessons of horticulture) were published.

Uncomplicated member of many scientific societies, Poiteau later became head trip the museum of natural version, to which he offered recurrent the animals and plants yes had brought back from Guiana. Poiteau discovered numerous species commandeer plants and animals, he regular created some families (cyclanthae, sustenance example).

As a gardener professor a pomologist, he much intentional to the amelioration of picture edible fruits. As an chief, he is appreciated and reward colored lithographs are sought-after infant amateurs. On this ground, settle down is often compared to Pierre-Joseph Redouté. He died in Town.

The standard author abbreviationPoit. abridge used to indicate this special as the author when startling a botanical name.^[2]

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