Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze

For the 20th-century French philosopher, see Gilles Deleuze.
Joseph Philippe François Deleuze

Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze (1753, Sisteron – 31 October 1835, Paris) was an 18th–19th-century French naturalist.

Biography

J. P. J. Deleuze studied in Paris and became assistant naturalist at the National Museum of Natural History in 1795. He collaborated with Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836). An assistant naturalist and librarian of the Natural History Museum, he is best known for being a proponent of the theory of animal magnetism and suggested the French Academy of Sciences study it. Joseph Philippe François Deleuze was a resident member of the Société des observateurs de l'homme.

Honours

The genus Leuzea was dedicated to Deleuze by Swiss botanist Augustin Pyrame de Candolle.

The standard author abbreviation Deleuze is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

Selected list of publications

Commemorative plaque, rue Deleuze, in Sisteron.
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Bibliography

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