Nicholas Joseph von Jacquin

Nicholas Joseph von Jacquin (1727 - 1817)

Image of Nicholas Joseph von Jacquin from J. Dörfler (1906 - 1907) Botaniker Porträts

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Biography

Studies philosophy at Louvain, medicine and botany at Leiden (both in the Netherlands)

1750 - 1752 studies medicine in Paris

1752 finishes medical studies, in Vienna

1755 - 1759 is botanist for an expedition to the West Indies and northern South America, collecting plants for the botanical garden at Vienna-Schönbrunn

Photo of Pycnoporus cinnabarinus by John Denk

1763 appointed professor of chemistry at the Bergakademie in Schemnitz (alias Banska Stiavnica)

1768 leaves the Bergakademie to become professor of chemistry and director of the botanical garden at Vienna

Image of Pleurotus ostreatus from Eugen Gramberg (1913) Pilze unserer Heimat

Here's someone we can all get behind: the guy who named the oyster mushroom! And he named quite a few other interesting fleshy fungi as well.

Jacquin's ancestors came to the Netherlands from France in the late 1600s (protestants?), and he grew up in Holland. Besides the stuff that we all know and love, most of his work was on tropical fungi from the 1755-59 expedition.
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Sources

Heinrich Dörfelt & Heike Heklau (1998) Die Geschichte der Mykologie
(Die Geschichte der Mykologie)

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Species

Ascocoryne sarcoides (Jacquin: S. F. Gray) G. W. Wilson & J. W. Groves
Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacquin: Fries) Kummer
Polyporus tuberaster Jacquin: Fries
Pycnoporus cinnabarinus (Jacquin: Fries) Karsten
Sarcoscypha coccinea (Jacquin: Fries) Lambotte

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