Jacques Cambessèdes

Jacques Cambessèdes (born August 26, 1799 in Montpellier , † December 20, 1863 on his Féroussac estate near Meyrueis ) was a French agronomist and botanist.

life and work

From March to June 1824 Cambessèdes explored the Balearic Islands at the suggestion of Jacques Gay and Alexander von Humboldt and was the first to compile a floristic inventory of the archipelago (title: "Enumeratio Plantarum quas in insulis Balearibus ..."). This publication was a remarkable contribution to the Mediterranean biogeography of the late 1820s.

Several plants bear his name as a specific epithet, including Paeonia cambessedesii , a peony from Mallorca. In botanical taxonomy, the abbreviation "Cambess" is used for Cambessèdes. Cambessèdes was registered on June 10, 1829 with the registration number. 1331 and the academic surname Serra accepted as a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

Fonts

• Enumeratio plantarum quas in insulis Balearibus collegit. Earumque circa mare Mediterraneum distributio geographica . Paris 1827 ( digitized version )

swell

• Enciclopèdia Catalana: Cambessedes, Jacques. In: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana . Retrieved July 12, 2019 (Catalan). 
• grec.net (archive): Jacques Cambessèdes. Retrieved July 12, 2019 . 
• Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, directory of the members of the academy, according to the chronological order, p. 260 ( archive.org ).

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Jacques Cambessèdes at the IPNI
• Member entry of Jacques Cambessèdes at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Literature by and about Jacques Cambessèdes in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Enciclopèdia Catalana: Cambessèdes, Jaques.