Background
Jacques Delisse was born in Dax in 1773 and went to Paris in 1787 to study pharmacy.
Jacques Delisse was born in Dax in 1773 and went to Paris in 1787 to study pharmacy.
He joined the Baudin expedition to Australia, which sailed from Le Havre in October 1800, as a botanist-pharmacologist. Suffering from scurvy, he left the ship when it reached Mauritius the next year, and set up as a pharmacist in Portuguese Louis. After his wife"s death, he returned to France with his family in December 1848 and lived at Bordeaux, where he died on 13 March 1856.
The Mauritian scientist France Staub is his descendant.
The Hawaiian plant genus Delissea is named in his honor.
Baudin expedition to Australia.