Editing Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (section)

== Life ==

Jussieu was born in [[Lyon]], France, in 1748, as one of 10 children, to Christophle de Jussieu, an amateur [[botanist]].{{sfn|Burdet|1976}} His father's three younger brothers were also botanists. He went to [[Paris]] in 1765 to be with his uncle [[Bernard de Jussieu|Bernard]] and to study [[medicine]], graduating with a [[doctorate]] in 1770, with a thesis on animal and vegetable physiology.{{sfn|Jussieu|1770}} His uncle introduced him to the [[Jardin du Roi]], where he was appointed as a botany [[List of academic ranks|Demonstrator]] and deputy to [[L. G. Le Monnier]], professor of botany there in 1770.{{sfn|Stafleu|2019}} Le Monnier had succeeded Antoine-Laurent's uncle Antoine in 1759. Lectures by eminent botanists, including the Jusssieu dynasty were popular there, especially among pharmacists.{{sfn|Hahn|1971|p=87}} His lecture on the classification of [[Ranunculaceae]] in 1773{{sfn|Jussieu|1770}} to the [[Académie des Sciences]] led to his election as a member that year.{{sfn|Rompel|1910}} In 1784 he was appointed to a Royal Commission by [[Louis XVI]], as one of five commissionaires to investigate [[animal magnetism]], publishing a dissenting opinion from the majority,{{sfn|Jussieu|1784}} suggesting further investigation was required.{{sfn|Duveen|Klickstein|1955}}

The publication of Jussieu's ''Genera plantarum'' in 1789 was rapidly followed by the outbreak of the [[French Revolution]] (1789–1799). Jussieu adhered to the revolutionary principles and was appointed to a position in the municipal government of Paris, where he had the task of managing all the hospitals. With the overthrow of the monarchy, the Jardin du Roi was renamed the Jardin des plantes, and Jussieu was instrumental in reorganizing the Jardin as the [[Muséum national d'histoire naturelle]] in 1790, where he became a professor of botany, holding the [[Chair (academia)|chair]] in Botanique à la campagne. He was also Director of the museum from 1794 to 1795, and again from 1798 to 1800.{{sfn|Jaussaud|Brygoo|2004|pp=41–45}} Jussieu immediately set about setting up a [[herbarium]], a task greatly facilitated by the seizure  of foreign collections by the revolutionary armies, and by the confiscation of the assets of the church and aristocracy.{{sfn|Promeet|2021}}{{sfn|Stafleu|2019}} In 1808, [[Napoleon]] appointed him to the position of counsellor of the university.{{sfn|Rompel|1910}}

He remained at the museum until 1826, when he was succeeded by his son [[Adrien-Henri de Jussieu|Adrien-Henri]].{{sfn|Promeet|2021}} At the museum he published many papers in the museum's annals (''Annales du Museum d’histoire naturelle'' 1802–1813){{sfn|Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris |1802–1827}} and its succeeding ''Mémoires du Muséum d'histoire naturelle'' (1815–), as well as contributing articles to [[Frederic Cuvier]]'s [[:fr:Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles|''Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles'']] (1816-1830).{{sfn|Cuvier|1816–1845}}{{sfn|Stafleu|2019}} He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge, [[Les Neuf Sœurs]].