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Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (April 12, 1748 - September 17, 1836) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 botanist, notable as the first to propose a natural classification of flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s; much of his system remains in use today.

Jussieu was born in Lyon
Lyon

||-||}Lyon, also known as Lyons in English, is a city in east-central France. Its name is pronounced in French language and Franco-Proven?al language, and or in English language....
, the nephew of the botanist Bernard de Jussieu
Bernard de Jussieu

Bernard de Jussieu was a France naturalist, younger brother of Antoine de Jussieu.Bernard de Jussieu was born in Lyon. He took a medicine degree at Montpellier and began practice in 1720, but finding the work uncongenial he gladly accepted his brother's invitation to Paris in 1722, when he succeeded Sebastien Vaillant as sub-demonstrator...
. He went to Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 to study medicine
Medicine

Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
, graduating in 1770. He was professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes

The Jardin des Plantes is the main botanical garden in France. It is one of seven departments of the Mus?um national d'histoire naturelle....
 from 1770 to 1826. His son Adrien-Henri
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu

Adrien-Henri de Jussieu was a France botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae....
 also became a botanist.

In his study of flowering plants, Genera plantarum (1789), Jussieu adopted a methodology based on the use of multiple characters to define groups, an idea derived from Scottish-French naturalist Michel Adanson
Michel Adanson

Michel Adanson was a France natural history of Scotland descent.Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris on 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes....
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Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (April 12, 1748 - September 17, 1836) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 botanist, notable as the first to propose a natural classification of flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s; much of his system remains in use today.

Jussieu was born in Lyon
Lyon

||-||}Lyon, also known as Lyons in English, is a city in east-central France. Its name is pronounced in French language and Franco-Proven?al language, and or in English language....
, the nephew of the botanist Bernard de Jussieu
Bernard de Jussieu

Bernard de Jussieu was a France naturalist, younger brother of Antoine de Jussieu.Bernard de Jussieu was born in Lyon. He took a medicine degree at Montpellier and began practice in 1720, but finding the work uncongenial he gladly accepted his brother's invitation to Paris in 1722, when he succeeded Sebastien Vaillant as sub-demonstrator...
. He went to Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 to study medicine
Medicine

Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
, graduating in 1770. He was professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes
Jardin des Plantes

The Jardin des Plantes is the main botanical garden in France. It is one of seven departments of the Mus?um national d'histoire naturelle....
 from 1770 to 1826. His son Adrien-Henri
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu

Adrien-Henri de Jussieu was a France botanist.Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Euphorbiaceae....
 also became a botanist.

In his study of flowering plants, Genera plantarum (1789), Jussieu adopted a methodology based on the use of multiple characters to define groups, an idea derived from Scottish-French naturalist Michel Adanson
Michel Adanson

Michel Adanson was a France natural history of Scotland descent.Adanson was born at Aix-en-Provence. His family moved to Paris on 1730. After leaving the College Sainte Barbe he was employed in the cabinets of Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur and Bernard de Jussieu, as well as in the Jardin des Plantes....
. This was a significant improvement over the original system of Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus was a Sweden botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern alpha taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology....
, who classified plants into classes and orders based on the number of stamens and pistils. Jussieu did keep Linnaeus' binomial nomenclature
Binomial nomenclature

In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is called binominal nomenclature , binary nomenclature , or the binomial classification system....
, resulting in a work that was far-reaching in its impact; many of the present-day plant families are still attributed to Jussieu. Morton's 1981 History of botanical science counts 76 of Jussieu's families conserved in the ICBN, versus just 11 for Linnaeus, for instance.

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Les Neuf Sœurs
Les Neuf Sœurs

Les Neuf S?urs , established in Paris in 1776, was a prominent French Masonic Lodge of the Grand Orient de France that was influential in organising French support for the American Revolution....
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