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JOSEPH PITTON DE TOURNEFORT (1656-1708)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 106 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOSEPH PITTON DE See also:TOURNEFORT (1656-1708)  , See also:French botanist, was See also:born at See also:Aix, in See also:Provence, on the 5th of See also:June 1656 . He studied in the See also:convent of the See also:Jesuits at Aix, and was destined for the See also:Church, but the See also:death of his See also:father See also:left him See also:free to follow his botanical inclinations . After two years' See also:collecting, he studied See also:medicine at See also:Montpellier, but was appointed See also:professor of See also:botany at the Jardin See also:des Plantes in 1683 . By the See also:king's See also:order he travelled through western See also:Europe, where he made extensive collections, and subsequently spent three years in See also:Greece and See also:Asia See also:Minor (1700-1702) . Of this See also:journey a description in a See also:series of letters was posthumously published in 3 vols . (Relation d'un voyage du See also:Levant, See also:Lyons, 1717) . His See also:principal See also:work is entitled Institutiones rei herbariae (3 vols . See also:Paris, 1700), and upon this rests chiefly his claims to remembrance as one of the most eminent of the systematic botanists who prepared the way for See also:Linnaeus . He died on the 28th of See also:December 1708 .

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