About Joseph Duval-Jouve
Lived 1810 – 1883 (aged 73). Joseph Duval-Jouve was a French botanist, botanical collector and mineralogist.
Joseph Duval-Jouve (7 August 1810 – 25 August 1883) was a French botanist born in Boissy-Lamberville. He was the father of histologist Mathias-Marie Duval (1844-1907).
He taught classes at the college in Grasse (1832–52), afterwards serving as an academic inspector in Algiers, Strasbourg and Montpellier. A portion of his herbarium was donated to the faculty of sciences at Montpellier.
He specialized in research of the family Poaceae and the genus Equisetum. The plant genus Jouvea is named in his honor. He is the taxonomic authority for the grass genus Loretia.
Written works Histoire naturelle des Equisetum de France (1864) Étude anatomique de l'arète des graminées (1870)
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Who was Joseph Duval-Jouve?
French botanist (1810-1883)
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Joseph Duval-Jouve was born on 7 August 1810 in Boissy-Lamberville.
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Joseph Duval-Jouve died on 25 August 1883.
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Joseph Duval-Jouve was a botanist, botanical collector and mineralogist.
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Joseph Duval-Jouve was French.
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