Humbert, Jean-Henri (1887-1967)

Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Jean-Henri
Last name
Humbert
Initials
J.-H.
Life Dates
1887 - 1967
Collecting Dates
1912 - 1960
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Bryophytes
Fungi
Pteridophytes
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
P (main), PC (main), A, AL, B, BM, BR, C, CN, E, EA, EGR, G, GH, K, L, LIL, MO, MPU, NA, NCY, NY, PRE, RAB, REN, S, TAN, TEF, U, US, WAG
Countries
North Africa: Algeria, Morocco, TunisiaSouthern Africa: Angola, Malawi, South AfricaTemperate South America: ArgentinaBrazilian region: BrazilTropical South America: Colombia, Peru, VenezuelaTropical Africa: Congo, Democratic Republic, TanzaniaCaribbean region: Dominican RepublicEurope: France, GreeceMadagascan region: MadagascarCentral American Continent: Mexico
Associate(s)
Bégué, Louis Henri (1906-) (co-collector)
Capuron, René Paul Raymond (1921-1971) (co-collector)
Choux, P. (1890-1983) (co-author)
Cours, Gilbert (1909-) (co-collector)
Decary, Raymond (1891-1973) (co-collector)
Henrici, Marguerite Gertrude Anna (1892-1971) (co-collector)
Hernández-Xolocotzi Guzman, Efraim Ildefonso (1913-1991) (co-collector)
Humbert, Henri (synonym)
Idrobo Muñoz, Jesús Medardo (1917-) (co-collector)
Jaramillo Mejía, Roberto (1919-2006) (co-collector)
Maire, René Charles Joseph Ernest (1878-1949) (co-collector)
Miranda González, Faustino Antonio (1905-1964) (co-collector)
Pérez Arbeláez, Enrique (1896-1972) (co-collector)
Perrier de la Bâthie, Joseph Marie Henry Alfred (1873-1958) (co-collector)
Quarré, Paul (1904-1980) (co-collector)
Rasolofo (fl. 1960) (co-collector)
Saboureau, Pierre (fl. 1947-1960) (co-collector)
Sabureaud (fl. 1959) (co-collector)
Schultes, Richard Evans (1915-2001) (co-collector)
Swingle, Charles Fletcher (1899-1993) (co-collector)
Topali, S. (1900-1944) (co-collector)
Uribe Uribe, (Antonio) Lorenzo (1900-1980) (co-collector)
Viguier, René (1880-1931) (co-collector)
Biography
Jean Henri Humbert, usually known as Henri, was a French botanist and conservationist from Paris who studied physics, chemistry and natural sciences in Rennes and Paris. He made his first African collections in Madagascar (1912) before becoming a university assistant at Clermont-Ferrand. After the First World War he was appointed to the chair of botany (1919) and taught botany at the at the Institute of Chemistry and Industrial Technology (1920-1922). He became head of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Algiers (1922-1931) before succeeding P.H. Lecomte as Professor of Botany at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris (1931-1958). He was also a member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris (1951-1957), the Institut de France and the Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord. Humbert collected widely in Africa and South America, his specimens consistently labelled 'H. Humbert'. He was responsible for initiating and editing a number of important floras. Several genera have been named in his honour including Bryohumbertia P. de la Varde & Thér., Humbertiella Hochr., Humbertacalia C. Jeffrey and Neohumbertiella Hochr.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 289; Dorr, L.J. Pl. Collectors Madagasc. Comoro Is. (1997): 116, 214; Gunn, M. & Codd, L.E. Bot. Explor. S. Afr. (1981): 194; Harrison, S.G., Ind. Coll. Welsh Nat. Herb. (1985): 55; Knobloch, I.W., Phytologia Mem. 6 (1983): 44; Lanjouw, J. & Stafleu, F.A., Index Herb. Coll. E-H (1957): 292; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. S (1986): 981; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. T-Z (1988): 1087;
Humbert, Jean-Henri (1887-1967)
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