Hippolyte François Jaubert
Hippolyte François Comte Jaubert (born October 27, 1798 in Paris , † December 5, 1874 in Montpellier ) was a French botanist and minister. Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Jaub. "
Life
His father died in the naval battle of Abukir and so he was adopted by his uncle François Jaubert (1758-1822), who was State Councilor and Governor of the Bank of France . At his uncle's request, he studied law . When his uncle died, he inherited the title of count and a large fortune. He bought large tracts of land in Berry and ironworks in the departments of Nièvre and Cher , and was director of the railway company Paris-Orléans . He was also politically active: in 1830 he became a member of the General Council of Cher and was elected six times to the Chamber of Deputies from 1831 to 1842. In 1840 he was Minister for Public Works in Adolphe Thiers' cabinet . In 1844 he became a peer of France. In the Second Empire he withdrew from politics and devoted himself to botany and business. It was not until 1870 that he became politically active again and became a member of the National Assembly .
He became interested in geology and botany at an early age , co-founded the Société d'histoire naturelle de Paris in 1821 and financed the trips of naturalists to Asia . The herbarium he created with it served him with that of the Natural History Museum in Paris as the basis of his work with Édouard Spach on plants from the Orient . Hippolyte François Jaubert was a founding member of the French Botanical Society in 1854 .
Honors
In 1840 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor . In 1858 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . From 1858 to 1872 he was a member of the Académie des sciences .
The plant genus Jaubertia Guillemin from the family of the redness plants (Rubiaceae) is named after him.
Fonts
- with Édouard Spach: Illustrationes plantarum orientalium… , 5 volumes, Paris: Roret 1842–1857.
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Hippolyte François Jaubert at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ^ List of members Leopoldina, Hippolyt-François Comte de Jaubert
- ^ List of members since 1666: letter J. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 30, 2019 (French).
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jaubert, Hippolyte François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jaubert, Hippolyte François Comte |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 5, 1874 |
| Place of death | Montpellier |