Sabin Berthelot
Sabin Berthelot (born April 3, 1794 in Marseille , † November 10, 1880 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife ) was a French naturalist and ethnologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Berthel. ".
Live and act
Berthelot was the son of a Marseilles trader. He joined the French Navy and served as a cadet during the Napoleonic Wars. After Napoleon's abdication , he worked in merchant shipping between Marseilles and the West Indies. He first came to the Canary Islands in 1820, taught in a school and took over the supervision of the botanical garden Jardín de aclimatación de La Orotava for Alonso de Nava y Grimón . Together with Philip Barker Webb , he wrote a nine-volume Histoire Naturelle des Iles Canaries . In 1825 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy . From 1867 he was French consul in Tenerife .
Berthelot founded the Société d'Ethnologique in 1845 .
Honors
The bird Anthus berthelotii ( Canary Pipit, English - Berthelot's pipit ) is named after him as well as the Canary Horn Clover Lotus berthelotii . Also the plant genus Berthelotia DC. from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) is named after Berthelot.
Works
- Philip Barker Webb, Sabin Berthelot: L'Histoire Naturelle des Îles Canaries . Paris, 1835-49.
- Les Guanches (1841, 1845)
- La Conquète des canaries (1879)
- Antiquités Canariennes (1879)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Sabin Berthelot at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berthelot, Sabin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French naturalist and ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1794 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1880 |
| Place of death | Santa Cruz de Tenerife |