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Hereditary Genius
Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de, continued—
His father was one of a family of sixteen children, and the only one of them that
married.
U. Antoine Jussieu. Had a love of observing plants even when a child; it became a
passion when he was a youth, and drove him in a contrary direction to the
path of life intended for him by his father. He became a student at Montpellier,
had a rapid success, and aet. 23 succeeded Tournefort as Professor of Botany
at Paris.
U. Bernard Jussieu, a great botanical genius, some say the greatest in this family.
He, at first, had no taste for botany, not even when he was a youth, and had
shared in a botanizing excursion. Then he performed the duty of assistant
demonstrator of botany to his brother Antoine, who persuaded him to follow
that science as a profession, and he kept throughout life to the same
subordinate post, for he preferred it. He was exceedingly attached to his
brother. He became a most patient observer. He was a calm, composed man;
very orderly; very temperate and simple in his habits. He was a virtuous, able,
and kindly man. He had strong health, but he became blind, just as his nephew
did after him: d. aet. 78.
U. Joseph Jussieu. Was deficient in the steadiness of his eminent brothers, but had
plenty of ability. He was successively, or rather simultaneously, botanist,
engineer, physician, and traveller. He was botanist to the expedition sent to
Peru under Condamine, whence he returned to Europe with a broken
constitution: however, he lived to aet. 75.
S. Adrien Jussieu, the only male heir of the family, succeeded his father as
Professor of Botany. Married; had only two daughters; d. aet. 56, in 1853.
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Jussieu, Bernard. See above. 2 B., N., NS.
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