Adrien-Henri de Jussieu

For other members of the family, see De Jussieu family.

Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (23 December 1797 – 29 June 1853) was a French botanist.^[1]

Adrien-Henry de Jussieu
de Jussieu in 1851.
Born	(1797-12-23)23 December 1797 Paris, France
Died	29 June 1853(1853-06-29) (aged 55)

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.^[2] When his father retired in 1826, he succeeded him at the Jardin des Plantes; in 1845 he became professor of organography of plants. He was also president of the French Academy of Sciences. De Jussieu was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1850.^[3]

His main publications were the Cours élémentaire de botanique (Paris) and the Géographie botanique (Paris, 1846), as well as several monographs, most notably the one on the family Malpighiaceae.^[4] In botanical references, he is usually abbreviated as Adr. Juss., also sometimes as A. Juss., as his father already has the abbreviation Juss.^{[citation needed]}

The asteroid 9470 Jussieu was named in honor of the de Jussieu family.^{[citation needed]}

In 1825, the French botanist Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré published Adriana, a genus of Australian shrubs in the family Euphorbiaceae named in honour of Jussieu.^{[citation needed]}