Antoine de Jussieu

Template:Short description Template:Hatnote Template:For Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox scientist Antoine de Jussieu (6 July 1686Template:Snd22 April 1758) was a French naturalist, botanist, and physician. Template:Botanist

Jussieu was born in Lyon. He was the son of Christophe de Jussieu (or Dejussieu), an apothecary of some repute, who published a Nouveau traité de la theriaque (1708). Antoine studied at the University of Montpellier, and travelled with his brother Bernard through Spain, Portugal, and southern France. He went to Paris in 1708. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, whom he succeeded at the Jardin du Roi,<ref>Template:Cite CE1913</ref> later the Jardin des Plantes, died in that year.<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |

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His own original publications are not of marked importance, but he edited an edition of Tournefort's Institutions rei herbariae (3 vols., 1719), and a posthumously published work of Jacques Barrelier, Plantae per Galliam, Hispaniam, et Italiam observatae, &c. (1714).

He practiced medicine, chiefly devoting himself to the very poor.<ref name="EB1911" /> His teaching was the subject of a posthumous publication, in 1772, entitled Traité des vertus des plantes<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>.

His brother Bernard de Jussieu is better known.