Jacques Bernard Hombron, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacques Bernard Hombron

French naval surgeon and naturalist

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1798

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 16-Oct-1852

Profession: naturalist, surgeon, ornithologist, botanist, explorer, malacologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798–1852) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist. Hombron served on the French voyage of the Astrolabe and Zélée between 1837 and 1840 to investigate the perimeter of Antarctica.
He described a number of plants and animals with Honoré Jacquinot.
Hombron served as surgeon and botanist on the Astrolabe and Honoré Jacquinot was a junior surgeon on the Zélée.
A botanical account of the expedition was published in: "Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée ...
Botanique / par MM.
Hombron et Jacquinot"; (2 volumes 1845-1853). In 1847 Hombron published a two-volume work on his personal and other explorers' adventures, titled: "Aventures les plus curieuses des voyageurs : coup d'oeil autour du monde".
In 1841 Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré named the plant genus Hombronia in his honor.