Jean Baptiste Antoine Guillemin ( Pouilly-sur-Saône

Pouilly-sur-Saône

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 , January 20, 1796 - Montpellier

Montpellier

-Neighbourhoods:Since 2001, Montpellier has been divided into seven official neighbourhoods, themselves divided into sub-neighbourhoods. Each of them possesses a neighbourhood council....

, January 15, 1842 ) was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 botanist.

In 1812 he was apprenticed to a pharmacist

Pharmacist

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 in Dijon

Dijon

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, and in 1814 moved to Geneva

Geneva

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, where he studied with Jean Pierre Étienne Vaucher

Jean Pierre Étienne Vaucher

Jean Pierre Étienne Vaucher was a Swiss Protestant pastor and botanist who was a native of Geneva.He studied theology at Geneva, and from 1795 to 1821 was a pastor at the Church of Saint-Gervais. From 1808 to 1840 he was a professor of church history at the University of Geneva, and for several...

 (1763–1841) and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778–1841). Later he relocated to Paris

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, where he became curator

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 of the herbarium

Herbarium

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 and library of botanist Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert

Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert

Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert was a French banker and naturalist.He was born at Lyon, the son of Étienne Delessert , the founder of the first fire insurance company and the first discount bank in France...

 (1773–1784).

In 1827 he worked as an aide-préparateur at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

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, and in 1832 received his PhD. Two years later he succeeded Adolphe Brongniart (1801–1876) as an assistant naturalist

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 to the chair of botany. In 1838 he led a research mission to Brazil to study tea

Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant to hot water. The term also refers to the plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world...

 cultivation.

With Achille Richard

Achille Richard

Achille Richard was a French botanist and physician .He was son of a notable botanist, Louis-Claude Marie Richard .Pharmacist in the French fleet and member of several well-known societies of their time....

 (1794–1852) and George Samuel Perrottet

George Samuel Perrottet

George Samuel Perrottet was a Swiss-born, French botanist and horticulturalist who was a native of Vully, canton Vaud....

 (1793–1870), he was co-author of a work on the flora of Senegambia (geographic location of present-day Senegal

Senegal

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 and Gambia) titled Florae Senegambiae Tentamen... (1830–1833).