João de Loureiro ( port of João de Loureiro ) ( September 8, 1717 - October 18, 1791 ) - Portuguese Jesuit , missionary , paleontologist , physician and botanist .
| Juan di loureiro | |
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| port. João de loureiro | |
| Date of Birth | September 8, 1717 |
| Place of Birth | Lisbon |
| Date of death | October 18, 1791 ( 74) |
| A place of death | Lisbon |
| A country | Portugal |
| Scientific field | Botany |
| Known as | Jesuit missionary , paleontologist , medic and nerd |
| Taxonomy of wildlife | |
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation “ Lour. " . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Travel to Vietnam
- 2 Artworks
- 3 Bibliography
- 4 References
Biography
Travel to Vietnam
In 1735 he was sent as a missionary to Asia, where he spent 44 years, of which three years in Guangzhou . Since 1742 he was in the South Vietnam colonies of France .
He gave names to many types of Asian plants, these names are used in the botanical nomenclature and in our time, for example, the species of plants Biryuchin Chinese ( Ligustrum sinense ) is associated with his name, since he is known as the first European to give his description.
Artwork
After his return in 1782, he published the work Flora cochinchinensis: sistens plantas in regno Cochinchina nascentes (1790), which made him famous and was accepted into the Lisbon Academy of Sciences . The second edition was published in 1793, in which the material is presented in accordance with the Linnaeus system, species are indexed and transcriptions of Chinese names are given.
Bibliography
- Robert Zander, Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold. 1984 . Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen . 13. Auflage. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5