death_date birth_place nationality field birth_date article_title name
22 april 1758 lyon 20px france naturalist 6 july 1686 antoine de jussieu
 antoine de jussieu
antoine de jussieu

antoine de jussieu -lrb- 6 july 1686 -- 22 april 1758 -rrb- was a french naturalist .
jussieu was born in lyon , the son of christophe de jussieu -lrb- or dejussieu -rrb- , an apothecary of some repute , who published a `` nouveau traité de la theriaque '' -lrb- 1708 -rrb- .
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 '' -lrb- 3 vols. , 1719 -rrb- , and also a posthumous work of jacques barrelier , `` plantae per galliam , hispaniam , et italiam observatae , & c. '' -lrb- 1714 -rrb- .
he practiced medicine , chiefly devoting himself to the very poor .
his brother bernard de jussieu is better known .
