1763-68 professor of chemistry and mineralogy at Mining and miner Academy in Banská Štiavnica, from 1769 professor of chemistry and botany at University in Vienna, director of imperial garden in Schrönbrunnu, in Vienna.
He was a collector of ornamental plants in South America. He introduced experimental methods in chemistry. He was instrumental in introducing the Linn system in Hapsburg monarchy. He is an author of numerous works of chemistry and botany.
Main treatise:
Selectarum stirpium americanum historia (1763-1780)
Flora austriaca (1773-8)
Hortus botanicus Vindobonensis (1770-6, 5 volumes, 300 tables),
Icones plantarum rariorum (1781-1793, 3 volumes and 648 tables)
Plantarum rariorum Horti caesarei Schoenbrunnensis descriptiones et icones (1797-1804, 4 volumes and 500 tables).
His son Joseph Franz Jacquin was a professor of botany.
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