Jean-Baptiste de Secondat
French naturalist, botanist, and agronomist
Jean-Baptiste de Secondat baron de La Brède (12 February 1716 – 17 June 1796) was an 18th-century French naturalist botanist, and agronomist. He was the eldest son of Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Baron de La Brède (1689–1755) and Jeanne Catherine de Lartigue (1689–1770).[1]
Some publications
The standard author abbreviation Secondat is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]
Books
- 1749: Considérations sur le commerce et la navigation de la Grande-Bretagne, by Joshua Gee, translated from English
Honors
Eponymous
- (Fagaceae) Quercus secondatii Steud.[3]
References
- ^ Dates
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Secondat.
- ^ Nomencl. Bot. [Steudel] 674. 1821 (IK)
External links
- Jean Baptiste de Secondat on data.bnf.fr
- Jean-Baptiste de Secondat de Montesquieu on IPNI
- Biography
- Éloges de Montesquieu par Jean-Baptiste de Secondat et D’Alembert
- Genealogy