Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze

Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze was a French naturalist, born in Sisteron in 1753 and died in Paris in 1835. He studied in Paris and in 1795 became an assistant naturalist at the National Museum of Natural History, where he later also served as librarian, and he collaborated with the botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu. He is best known as a proponent of the theory of animal magnetism, and he suggested that the French Academy of Sciences study it. He was a resident member of the Société des observateurs de l'homme and in 1817 was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. The botanist Augustin Pyrame de Candolle dedicated the genus Leuzea to him, and the standard author abbreviation Deleuze is used when his name is cited as the author of a botanical name.