Jean-Paul Bignon (1662-1743)
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/61742
- Name (English)
- Jean-Paul Bignon
- Short name
- Jean-Paul Bignon
- Year of birth
- 1662
- Year of death
- 1743
- Short Description
- "The Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon, Cong.Orat. (19 September 1662, Paris – 14 March 1743, Île Belle) was a French ecclesiastic, statesman, writer and preacher and librarian to Louis XIV of France. His protégé, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, named the genus Bignonia (Virginia jasmine) after him in 1694." - (en.wikipedia.org 11.08.2021)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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Georg Friedrich Schmidt: Bildnis Jean-Paul Bignon
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Object information
Image: Städtisches Graphik-Kabinett Backnang - CC BY-NC-SA
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