Jean-Henri Humbert

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Jean-Henri Humbert (born January 24, 1887 in Paris , † October 20, 1967 in Bazemont ) was a French botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Humbert ".

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Jean-Henri Humbert studied physics, chemistry and natural sciences in Rennes and Paris. He carried out his first African collections in Madagascar in 1912 . He then obtained an assistant position at the University of Clermont-Ferrand . After the First World War he was appointed to the chair for botany in 1919 and taught botany at the institute for chemistry and industrial technology from 1920 to 1922. From 1922 to 1931 he was head of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Algiers . In 1931 he followed Paul Henri Lecomte as professor of botany at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris.

He was a member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris (1951–1957), the Institut de France and the French Botanical Society , of which he was president from 1940 to 1944.

Humbert has described more than 700 species of plants.

Honors

After Humbert, the genera Humbertiella Hochr. , Humbertianthus Hochr. and Neohumbertiella Hochr. of the family Malvaceae (Malvaceae), also Humbertiodendron Leandri from the family of trigoniaceae, Humbertioturraea J.-F.Leroy of the family Meliaceae, Humbertacalia C.Jeffrey from the family of Compositae (Asteraceae) and Humbertochloa A.Camus & Stapf named from the sweet grass family (Poaceae).

Publications

  • 1936–1967: as editor Flore de Madagascar et des Comores

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  • Walter Erhardt , Erich Götz, Nils Bödeker, Siegmund Seybold: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names. Volume 2. Types and varieties. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Humbert, Jean-Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 20th October 1967
Place of death Bazemont