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Tournefort was born in Aix-en-Provence and studied at the Jesuit convent there. lieutenant was intended that he enter the Church, but the death of his father allowed him to follow his interest in botany.
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) was originally destined for the church, but his interest in botany led him to become professor of botany at the Jardin des plantes in Paris, and to travel all over Europe and beyond in search of interesting specimens. He was chiefly interested in the classification of plants, but is now best remembered for the accounts he wrote of voyages undertaken for the purpose of scientific discovery. This illustrated two-volume work, published posthumously in French in 1717 and translated into English the following year, recounts a journey begun in 1700, around the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea, visiting Crete and other Greek islands, Istanbul, Armenia and Georgia. Tournefort notes not only plants, but geographical features, antiquities, the people he encounters, and their way of life, agriculture and industry. Volume 1 begins with a biography of Tournefort, and ends with an account of Constantinople.
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Tournefort was born in Aix-en-Provence and studied at the Jesuit convent there. lieutenant was intended that he enter the Church, but the death of his father allowed him to follow his interest in botany.
After two years collecting, he studied medicine at Montpellier, but was appointed professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris in 1683.
The botanist Charles Plumier had been his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages. During this time he travelled through Western Europe, particularly the Pyrenees, where he made extensive collections. Between 1700 and 1702 he travelled through the islands of Greece and visited Constantinople, the borders of the Black Sea, Armenia, and Georgia, collecting plants and undertaking other types of observations.
He was accompanied by the German botanist Andreas Gundelsheimer (1668–1715) and the artist Claude Aubriet (1651–1743).
His description of this journey was published posthumously (Relation d"un voyage du Levant), he himself having been killed by a carriage in Paris. The road on which he died now bears his name (Rue de Tournefort in the 5ème arrondissement).
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