Jacques Bernard Hombron

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Jacques Bernard Hombron (born April 15, 1798 (26 Germinal VI) in the 6th arrondissement in Paris , † October 16, 1852 at sea on board the ship Ferdinand ) was a French doctor and naturalist . Its botanical abbreviation is " Hombr. "

Live and act

His wife's name was Félicie Hombron, to whom he and Honoré Jacquinot (1815-1887 ) dedicated Columba Felicia , a synonym for the golden fruit dove ( Ptilinopus luteovirens ), in 1841 . Although it is not clear from the original description to whom the pigeon was dedicated, the naming was explained posthumously in Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée .

In 1821 Hombron became a marine surgeon and was initially stationed in Guadeloupe before finally coming to Brest . He became known through his participation in the South Pole expedition led by Jules Dumont d'Urville between 1837 and 1840 with the ships Astrolabe and Zèlée . He served as a medical officer on this trip.

Between 1840 and 1848 he was an employee of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle with the task of viewing and documenting the natural history collectibles of the expedition. Together with Honoré Jacquinot, he described many new plant and animal species that u. a. Published in various volumes by Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée .

After two more voyages between 1848 and 1850, he was appointed to Senegal in 1851 as deputy chief physician . He only stayed here for a short time and died probably due to illness on the return journey on board the Ferdinand .

Dedication names

Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte named the Mindanaoliest ( Actenoides hombroni ) in his honor in 1850 . Alfred Russel Wallace described Chalcophaps hombroni in 1865 , a name that is now synonymous with the Stephanta Dove ( Chalcophaps stephani Pucheran , 1853). In 1852 Hippolyte Lucas described a species belonging to the whites , which is now known as Appias hombroni . In 1886 Adrien René Franchet dedicated the cotula hombroni lye flower to him . In 1841 Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré published the new plant genus Hombronia for the species Hombronia edulis , a name that is now synonymous with Pandanus dubius .

  • Appias hombroni

  • Mindanaoliest ( Actenoides hombroni )

  • Hombronia edulis Gaudich.

In addition, the Hombron Rocks , a group of reef rocks in Antarctica, bear his name.

Publications (selection)

  • with Honoré Jacquinot: Description de plusieurs Oiseaux nouveaux ou peu connus, provenant de l'expedition autour du monde sur les corvette l'Astrobale et la Zélée . In: Annales des sciences naturelles (=  2 ). tape 16 , 1841, pp. 312-320 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • with Honoré Jacquinot, Jacques Pucheran: Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée: exécuté par ordre du roi pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840, sous le commandement de MJ Dumont-d 'urville, Capitain de vaisseau: Publié par ordre du Gouvernement, sous la direction superieure de M. Jacquinot, captaine de vaisseau, commandant de la Zélèe . tape 3 (zoology). Gide et J. Baudry, Paris 1853 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

literature

  • Theodore Wells Pietsch III, William Dewey Anderson Jr .: Collection Building in Ichthyology and Herpetology . Allen Press, Lawrence, KS 1997, ISBN 978-0-935868-91-3 .
  • Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte: Conspectus generum avium . tape 1 . EJ Brill, Leiden 1850 ( gallica.bnf.fr ).
  • Alfred Russel Wallace: On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago . In: The Ibis (=  2 ). tape 1 , no. 22 , 1865, p. 365-400 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Hippolyte Lucas: Description de nouvelles espèces de Lépidoptères appartenant aux collections entomologiques du Musée de Paris . In: Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée (=  2 ). tape 4 , 1852, p. 324-343 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Paul Hariot, Paul Petit, J. Müller d'Argoire, Émile Bescherelle, Caro Benigno Massalongo, Adrien René Franchet: Mission scientifique du cap Horn, 1882-1883 . tape 5 (Botanique). Gauthier-Villars et Fils, Paris 1889 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré: Voyage autour du monde: exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette la Bonite commandèe par M. Vaillant Capitain de vaisseau publié par Ordre du Gouvernement sous les auspices du département de la Marine . tape 3 (Botanique Atlas). Arthus-Bertrand, Paris 1841 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Theodore Wells Pietsch III u. a., p. 66.
  2. ↑ Jacques Bernard Hombron et al. a. (1841), p. 316.
  3. ↑ Jacques Bernard Hombron et al. a. (1853), p. 112.
  4. ^ Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, p. 157.
  5. ^ Alfred Russel Wallace, p. 394.
  6. ^ Hippolyte Lucas, p. 325.
  7. ^ Adrien René Franchet, in Paul Hariot a. a., p. 345.
  8. ^ Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré, plate 22, figure 17.

Remarks

  1. ↑ This information is obtained from the État civil in the Archive départementales de Paris Archive départementales de Paris p. 33 of 51.
personal data
SURNAME Hombron, Jacques Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor, naturalist and polar explorer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1852
Place of death Sea (ship Ferdinand)