> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 733](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190204) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8299-1) LSID 8299-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q663914) QID Q663914 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Requien, Esprit (1788-1851), French botanist, malacologist and palaeontologist at Avignon; from 1809 director of the Avignon botanical garden, from 1840 curator of the "Musée d'histoire naturelle"; botanical explorer of the Provence and Corsica. (*Requien*) **Abbreviated name**: *Req.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Req.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection AV|AV]] (circa 200.000 sheets, see Granier 1980); other material at [[Collection B|B]] (mainly destr.), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection CN|CN]], [[Collection DBN|DBN]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection E|E]]-GL, [[Collection FI|FI]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection H|H]], [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection LY|LY]], [[Collection M|M]] (lich.), [[Collection MANCH|MANCH]], [[Collection MPU|MPU]], [[Collection MW|MW]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]], [[Collection PI|PI]], [[Collection WAG|WAG]]. – See Granier (1980) for a description of the herbarium. Correspondence, autograph collection and historical library at the Musée Calvet, Avignon; the natural history library is at [[Collection AV|AV]]. – 59 letters by Requien to J.B. Mougeot are at [[Collection P|P]] (Bibl. Centr.). #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(1): 623, 5(2): 46, 399; Barnhart 3: 145 (b. 6 Mai 1788, d. 30 Mai 1851); BM 4: 1635, 1682; Bossert p. 329; Clokie p. 231; CSP 5: 165; CSP 5: 165; Hegi 5(2): 1412; Hortus 3: 1202; IH 1 (ed. 2): 18, (ed. 3): 20, (ed. 6): 363, (ed. 7): 341, 2: (in press); Jackson p. 282; Kew 4: 451; Lasègue p. 102, 296, 322; PFC 1: 1, lv, 2(2): xvi-xvii, 3(1): x; PR (alph.): 7046, ed. 1: 7884; Quenstedt p. 328, 488; Rehder 5: 718; Saccardo 1: 137, 2: 90-91, cron. p. xxx; Stevenson p. 1255; Urban-Berl. p. 311, 387; Zander ed. 11, p. 806. #### Biofile - Anon., Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon ser. 2. 1: viii, 1850-1852 (d.); Bot. Zeit. 9: 528. 1851 (obit.; d. 29 Mai 1851; herb. left to Avignon); Bull. Soc. géol. France ser. 2. 10: 178. 1853 (d.); Flora 34: 573-574. 1851 (d. 29 Mai 1851 in Corsica; herb. left to Avignon); Österr. bot. W. 1: 315. 1851 (to Corsica for botanical collections; died suddenly 29 Mai 1851). - Candolle, A.P. de, Mém. souvenirs 227. 1862. - Flahault, C., Univ. Montpellier, Inst. bot. 43. 1890. - Granier, J., Candollea 35: 223-229. 1980 (on R. and his herbarium; biogr. note; present state of herb., portr.). - Lacroix, A., Figures de Savants 4: 102. 1938. - Laissus, Y., 103. Congr. natl. Soc. sav. Nancy 5: 237. 1978 (letters to J.B. Mougeot). - Lindemann, E. von, Bull. Soc. Natural. Moscou 61(1): 64. 1886. - Requien, E., \[2 letters of Requien to Parlatore on the flora of Corsica and Capraia, 1847\]. 15 p. *Copy*: FI (possibly reprint Giorn. bot. ital.). - Reynier, A., Soc. Hort. Bot. Marseille, Rev. mens. 40: 67-74, 123-125, 135-139. 1894 (documents). - Martins, Ch., Jard. pl. Montpellier 54. 1854. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 122. 1936. #### Handwriting Webbia 32(1): 34 (no. 65). 1977; Candollea 32: 411-412. 1977. #### Eponymy *Requinella* Fabre (1883); *Requienia* A.P. de Candolle (1825). ### Publications ##### n.9078. Catalogue des végétaux ligneux **Title** *Catalogue des végétaux ligneux* qui croissent naturellement *en Corse* ou qui y sont généralement cultivés... deuxième édition... Avignon (Imprimerie de Fr. Séguin ainé, ...) 1868. **Abbreviated title**: *Cat. vég. lign. Corse*. **Notes** *Ed. 1*: 1852, "chez G. Marchi, imprimeur-libraire, à Ajaccio" n.v. *Ed. 2*: 1868, p. \[1\]-21. *Copy*: G.