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Jacques Bernard Hombron

1798 - 1852

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Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798–1852) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist. Hombron served on the French voyage of the Astrolabe and Zélée between 1837 and 1840 to investigate the perimeter of Antarctica. He described a number of plants and animals with Honoré Jacquinot. Hombron served as surgeon and botanist on the Astrolabe and Honoré Jacquinot was a junior surgeon on the Zélée. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Bernard Hombron is the 383rd most popular explorer (up from 454th in 2019), the 4,240th most popular biography from France (up from 4,882nd in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jacques Bernard Hombron ranks 383 out of 498. Before him are Samuel Baker, Fernão de Loronha, Knut Haugland, Vasily Chichagov, Gombojab Tsybikov, and Alexander Burnes. After him are Georgy Sedov, Nathaniel Palmer, Francisco de Ulloa, Lauge Koch, Charles John Andersson, and Teoberto Maler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Jacques Bernard Hombron ranks 48. Before him are Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, Willibald Alexis, Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer, Karl von Holtei, and Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera. After him are Alexander Brullov, Ditlev Blunck, Alessandro Antonelli, Christoph Gudermann, Melchior von Diepenbrock, and Mirabeau B. Lamar. Among people deceased in 1852, Jacques Bernard Hombron ranks 56. Before him are Georg August Wallin, Daniel Webster, James Francis Stephens, Pavel Fedotov, Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, and José Ballivián. After him are Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, František Čelakovský, Christoph Gudermann, Francisco Javier Echeverría, Álvares de Azevedo, and Rose Philippine Duchesne.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Bernard Hombron ranks 4,240 out of 6,770. Before him are Andrée Brunet (1901), Georges Carpentier (1894), Kalidou Koulibaly (1991), Catherine Millet (1948), Jules Vandooren (1908), and Michel Déon (1919). After him are J. R. D. Tata (1904), Régine Deforges (1935), Jean Stern (1875), Guy Bourdin (1928), Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (1800), and Jacqueline Mazéas (1920).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jacques Bernard Hombron ranks 35. Before him are Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755), Jacques Labillardière (1755), Nicolas Baudin (1754), Louis de Freycinet (1779), Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859), and Henri Duveyrier (1840). After him are Étienne Brûlé (1592), and Louis-Gustave Binger (1856).

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