Jean-Paul Bignon
The Abbé Jean- Paul Bignon, Cong.Orat.( 19 September 1662, Paris – 14 March 1743, Île Belle) was a French ecclesiastic, statesman, writer and preacher and librarian to Louis XIV of France.
His protégé, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, named the" genus" Bignonia( Virginia jasmine) after him in 1694.
Joan Salvador i Riera
Joan Salvador
i Riera
( 1683- 21 February 1726) was a pharmacist and naturalist born in Barcelona, Spain.
He was the oldest son of Jaume Salvador i Pedrol, who was also an apothecary and naturalist.
His grandfather was a famous naturalist, Joan Salvador i Boscà.
He graduated with a master of arts from the Estudi General de Barcelona in 1700, and was admitted to the Barcelona Apothecary School in 1702.
Salvador studied botany with Peire Magnol in Montpellier, and with his father's friend Joseph Pitton de Tournefort in Paris.
In the fall of 1706 he returned to Barcelona from a trip to Occitania and Italy.
At that time the city was under the rule of Charles III.
Salvador was the main contributor to the oldest plant collection known in Spain, at the Botanic Institute of Barcelona.
Salvador wrote a memoir about arts, fishing gear and marine species, commissioned by the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris and published in 1722.
Piotr Wala
Piotr Wala( 16 December 1936 – 22 October 2013) was a Polish ski jumper.
He competed in the normal hill and large hill events at the 1964 Winter Olympics.
Andreas von Gundelsheimer
Andreas von Gundelsheimer( ca. 1668 – 17 June 1715) was a German physician and botanist born in Feuchtwangen.
He obtained his medical doctorate in Altdorf bei Nürnberg, afterwards spending several years working in Venice.
Later in Paris he made the acquaintanceship of botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort( 1656- 1708).
In 1700- 02 with Tournefort and painter Claude Aubriet( 1665- 1742), he journeyed to Asia Minor and Armenia on a research expedition.
His large collection of plants gathered from the expedition were sent to herbaria in Berlin and Munich.
In 1703 he settled in Berlin, where he subsequently became a physician to Prussian royalty.
He died on 17 June 1715, while accompanying King Friedrich Wilhelm I to Stettin.
François Pourfour du Petit
François Pourfour du Petit( June 24, 1664 – June 18, 1741) was a French anatomist, ophthalmologist and surgeon who was a native of Paris.
He studied medicine at the University of Montpellier, and afterwards studied surgery at the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris.
During this period of time he also attended lectures by Guichard Joseph Duverney( 1648 – 1730) in anatomy and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort( 1656 – 1708) in botany.
Between 1693 and 1713 he was a military physician in the armies of Louis XIV, and after the Peace of Utrecht( 1713), he returned to Paris as an eye specialist.
From 1722 to 1741 he was a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences.
Petit is remembered for his anatomical studies of the eye, as well as physiological research of the sympathetic nervous system.
As a military physician, Petit noticed that there was a striking correlation between soldiers' head wounds and contralateral motor effects, which he documented in a 1710 treatise called" Lettres d’un medecin des hopitaux du roi a un autre medecin de ses amis".
He performed pioneer investigations on the internal structure of the spinal cord, and gave an early, detailed description of the decussation of the pyramids.
He also provided the first clinical description of symptoms of what would later be known as Horner's syndrome.,
Francesco Cupani
Francesco Cupani( 21 January 1657, Mirto – 19 January 1710, Palermo) was an Italian naturalist mainly interested in botany.
In 1692 he became the first Director of the botanic garden at Misilmeri.
Here the plants were classified a system taxonomy of binomial nomenclature later made standard by Carl Linnaeus.
This work put him in contact with many botanists, for instance Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Caspar Commelin, William Sherard, James Petiver, Johann Georg Volckamer, Felice Viali( 1638 – 1722) and Giovanni Battista Triumfetti.
Antoine-Tristan Danty d'Isnard
Antoine- Tristan Danty d' Isnard( May 12, 1663, London- May 12 1743, Paris) was a French botanist.
His father was called on by King Charles II of England( 1630- 1685) to fight a plague epidemic in 1661.
The Danty d' Isnard family returned to France in 1668.
Antoine- Tristan obtained his doctorat in 1703 in Paris.
On the death of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort in 1708, Danty d' Isnard briefly succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes but resigned soon after and was replaced by Antoine de Jussieu.
He became deputy botanist at the French Academy of Sciences on January 25, 1716, associate chemist August 11, 1721 and associate botanist August 20, 1722.
He signed the Jardin du Roi plant catalogue in 1709.
He collected numerous plants from the Parisian region, where he worked with Rournefort, Sébastien Valliant and Antoine de Jussieu.
His herbarium, purchased by Philibert Commerson and then by Adrien- Henri de Jussieu is conserved in the National Museum of Natural History( France).
Antoine de Jussieu
Antoine de Jussieu( 6 July 168622 April 1758) was a French naturalist.
Jussieu was born in Lyon, 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, later the Jardin des Plantes, died in that year.
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 brother Bernard de Jussieu is better known.
Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois
Jean-Baptiste Lestiboudois( 30 January 1715, Douai – 20 March 1804, Lille) was a French botanist and pharmacist.
His son François Joseph Lestiboudois( 1759- 1815) and grandson Gaspard Thémistocle Lestiboudois( 1797- 1876) were also botanists.
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He studied pharmacy at the hospital in Douai and at the University of Douai.
After receiving his licence in medicine in 1739, he relocated to Lille.
During the same year, he was appointed chief pharmacist of the French army.
From 1758, he served as apothecary to the army headquarters of Bas- Rhin, during which time he studied plants found in the vicinity of Cologne and Braunschweig.
In 1770 he was appointed professor of botany by the magistrate of Lille, and from 1796 served as a professor of natural history at the" École centrale du département du Nord à Lille".
With Pierre Riquet, he was editor of" Pharmacopoeia, jussu Senatus insulensis tertiary edita".
In 1774, he issued" Carte de botanique", a botanical chart that combined the system of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort with that of Linnaeus.
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort( 5 June 1656 – 28 December 1708) was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants.
The botanist Charles Plumier had been his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages.

Question: Who lived longer, Piotr Wala or Joseph Pitton De Tournefort?
Answer: Piotr Wala