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Apr 15, 1798 Paris, Île de France, France Died on 16 Oct 1852 (aged 54)
French naval surgeon and naturalist
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About Jacques Bernard Hombron
- 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.
