贾尼克教授与普渡大学园艺学系
朱尔斯·贾尼克（Jules Janick）现为美国普渡大学园艺学与景观建筑系（HLA）詹姆斯·特鲁普杰出教授（James Troop Distinguished Professor of Horticulture），长期担任印第安纳新作物与植物产品中心主任，并曾于 1986 至 1987 年间出任美国园艺科学学会（ASHS）主席。他自 1951 年起即为 ASHS 会员，至今仍是国际园艺学界最具影响力的终身教授之一。普渡大学园艺学与景观建筑系隶属于普渡大学农学院，坐落于印第安纳州西拉斐特，主要研究方向涵盖园艺学、可持续食品与农业系统、草坪管理与景观设计，是全美赠地大学体系中历史最悠久的园艺学科之一。
伏尼契手稿研究的两部里程碑著作
贾尼克教授与亚瑟·奥克利·塔克（Arthur O. Tucker）合作，先后于 2018 年与 2019 年出版《解开伏尼契法典》（Unraveling the Voynich Codex）与《伏尼契法典植物志》（Flora of the Voynich Codex: An Exploration of Aztec Plants）。后者由 Springer 出版社推出，是学术界首次也是目前唯一一次从原始伏尼契手稿中全面鉴定全部植物种类的出版物，将植物插图与 16 世纪墨西哥南部阿兹特克人在传统草药治疗中使用的植物联系起来，使手稿的鉴定植物数量扩展至 166 种，其中仅有一种为当时特有。
破解手稿背后的植物学突破
《解开伏尼契法典》一书通过对手稿中植物插图与地图的分析，确定手稿的创作年代为 16 世纪墨西哥，这彻底颠覆了此前学界主流的十五世纪欧洲植物学家的作品假设。2019 年问世的《伏尼契法典植物志》进一步确认了向日葵与辣椒等典型西半球的本土物种出现在手稿中，从植物地理学上排除了欧洲起源的可能性。据编辑 Kenneth Teng 评价，这是首次从原始伏尼契手稿中完全鉴定所有植物物种的出版成果，使两位学者在解开伏尼契密码研究中的观点影响力获得质的提升。
詹姆斯·杜克植物文学优秀奖
贾尼克教授凭借《伏尼契法典植物志》获得美国植物理事会（ABC）颁发的詹姆斯·杜克植物文学优秀奖（James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award），这是北美植物学界对长期推动植物科学知识普及与严谨研究的代表性学者授予的最高荣誉之一。贾尼克长期在国际园艺学界笔耕不辍，担任《Chronica Horticulturae》主编，并在茄科、豆科、葫芦科等园艺作物的历史与图像学研究中持续推出系列论文，将传统园艺学提升至跨学科的植物文化史高度。
以贾尼克命名的园艺教学园
为表彰贾尼克对普渡园艺学与景观建筑系数十年的贡献，园艺教学园于 2019 年 8 月 23 日经步道、座椅、边界屏障与植物收集全面重建后，正式命名为朱尔斯·贾尼克园艺园（Jules Janick Horticulture Garden）。该园由贾尼克本人带头捐资，Amy P. Goldman 基金会、Wild Birds Unlimited、Perennials Plus、SiteOne、Rain Bird、Listerman & Assoc.、Spence Nursery、Rose Pest Solutions 等机构与众多校友及在职教师共同赞助，园中保留了 E.C. Stevenson 亭作为对 1958-1967 年系主任的纪念。
Professor Janick and the Purdue HLA Department
Jules Janick holds the James Troop Distinguished Professorship of Horticulture in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture (HLA) at Purdue University, where he also serves as Director of the Indiana Center for New Crops and Plant Products. He was President of the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) in 1986-1987 and has been an ASHS member since 1951. The Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture sits within Purdue’s College of Agriculture in West Lafayette, Indiana, and pursues teaching and research across horticulture, sustainable food and farming systems, turf management, and landscape architecture as one of the longest-running horticultural programs in the U.S. land-grant system.
Two landmark books on the Voynich Codex
Together with Arthur O. Tucker, Janick co-authored Unraveling the Voynich Codex in 2018 and Flora of the Voynich Codex: An Exploration of Aztec Plants in 2019. The latter, published by Springer, is the first and so far only publication to fully identify all of the plant species in the original Voynich manuscript, linking the botanical illustrations to plants used in traditional herbal medicine by the Aztecs in 16th-century southern Mexico. The book extended the number of identified plants to 166, of which only one was endemic to the period under study.
A botanical breakthrough behind the decipherment
Through analysis of the plant illustrations and maps contained in the manuscript, Unraveling the Voynich Codex placed the codex in 16th-century Mexico, overturning the prevailing 15th-century European attribution. The 2019 Flora volume reinforced that reading by confirming that sunflowers and capsicum, both quintessential Western Hemisphere natives, appear throughout the manuscript, ruling out a European origin on biogeographical grounds. Editor Kenneth Teng described it as the first complete botanical identification of every species in the original codex, a substantial advance on the views Janick and Tucker advanced in Unraveling.
James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award
Flora of the Voynich Codex earned Janick the James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award from the American Botanical Council (ABC), one of the highest recognitions given to authors who advance public understanding of plant science. Janick has been a prolific contributor to international horticultural literature, serving as an editor of Chronica Horticulturae and producing a long series of papers on the history and iconography of Solanaceae, Fabaceae, and Cucurbitaceae crops that lift traditional horticulture into the interdisciplinary space of plant cultural history.
A teaching garden named for Janick
In recognition of his decades of service to Purdue HLA, the department’s teaching garden was dedicated on 23 August 2019 as the Jules Janick Horticulture Garden, following an extensive renovation of walkways, seating, boundary screens and plant collections. Dr. Janick was the lead donor, with major support from the Amy P. Goldman Foundation, Wild Birds Unlimited, Perennials Plus, Robert and Joan Lohrey, Belgard, SiteOne, Rain Bird, Listerman and Associates, Spence Nursery, Rose Pest Solutions, and many alumni and current faculty who contributed benches. The garden retains the E.C. Stevenson Pavilion in memory of the department head who served from 1958 to 1967 and who coincidentally was Janick’s own doctoral major professor.
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