> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 72](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189543) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7356-1) LSID 7356-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q360312) QID Q360312 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Parmentier, Antoine Augustin (1737-1813), French economic botanist and military pharmacist, especially active in promoting the potato and, later, the sugar beet in France; "apothicaire aide-major" at the Invalides 1766; member of the Conseil de Santé 1782-1813; first army pharmacist 1800; inspector general of the health service 1805-1813. **Abbreviated name**: *A. Parm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Parm.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 425; Barnhart 3: 51; BM 4: 1524; Bossert p. 301; CSP 4: 762-763, 12: 558; Dryander 3: 430, 559, 622, 626 (as "Jean" P.); Frank 3(Anh.): 74; Henrey 2: 613, 615; 3: 99 (no. 1201); Jackson p. 194; Kew 4: 237; Langman p. 566; Plesch p. 357; PR 6956, 7855 (ed. 1: 7770-7784); Rehder 5: 650; Sotheby 587; TL-1/290; TL-2/see Déterville; Tucker 1: 540; Zander ed. 10, p. 699, ed. 11, p. 798 (b. 17 Apr 1737, d. 17 Dec 1813). #### Biofile - Dehérani, P.P. et al., Bull. Soc. natl. Acclim. 35: 263-273. 1888 (dedication statue at Neuilly; addresses). - Hallynck, P., Grand Larousse encycl. 8: 198. 1963. - Jourdan, A. J.L., Dict. sci. méd., Biogr. méd. 6: 366-369. 1824. - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr. lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 362-364. 1858 (bibl., b. 17 Apr 1737, d. 17 Dec 1813). - Silvestre, A.F., Mém. Agric, Soc. r. centr. Agric. 46: 38-59. 1815, also as reprint, 25 p. - Stieber, M.T. et al., Huntia 4(1): 84. 1981 (arch. mat. HU-Adanson). - Weemaels, F., Natuur Wereld 31(4): 181-183. 1969. - Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(3): 109. 1905. #### Composite works - (1) Co-editor of *Annales de Chimie et de Physique* 33-88, 1799-1813. - (2) Contributed to Déterville, *Nouv. dict. hist. nat.*, ed. 1, 1802-1804, ed. 2, 1816-1819. #### Postage stamps France 12 f. (1956) yv. 1081. #### Eponymy *Parmentaria* Fee (1824); *Parmentariomyces* Ciferri et Tomasselli (1953); *Parmentiera* A.P. de Candolle (1838); *Parmentiera* Rafinesque (1840); *Parmentieria Trevisan* (*1860, orth. var.* of *Parmentaria* Fée). ### Publications ##### n.7377. Examen chymique des pommes de terre **Title** *Examen chymique des pommes de terre*. Dans lequel on traite des parties constituantes du Bled... à Paris (Chez Didot, le jeune,...) 1773. Duod. **Abbreviated title**: *Exam. pommes de terre*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1773 ("approbation" 10 Apr 1773, p. \[i-xxiv, \[1\]-248, \[1-3, approb., 4 err.\]. *Copy*: MO. – See also his *Ouvrage économique sur les pommes de terre, le froment et le riz*, Paris (Monory) 1774, xxiv, 248 p. (*copy*: MO). ##### n.7378. Traité de la chataigne **Title** *Traité de la chataigne*,... À Bastia; et se trouve à Paris (chez Monory,...) 1780. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Traité chataigne*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1780, p. \[i\]-xxviii, \[1\]-160.