French botanist. Born in Paris, Philippe Eberhardt studied at the Sorbonne and after nine years in the position of preparateur was sent on a scientific mission to Bhutan and Indo-China in 1905. He spent three years on this task, then eight years on a special mission at the Cour de Hué. From 1916-1920 he served as Chief of Economic Services in Vietnam, before returning to France as professor of botany at Besançon, where he remained until his retirement in 1940. Eberhardt gathered many new mosses in the Tam Dao Mountains, north Vietnam, in 1907, among other collections. Among his publications were the works L'arbre à Caoutchouc (1910), Les plantes médicinales et leurs propriétés (1927) and Vade-mecum des étudiants (1933). He should not be confused with the Swiss botanist Albert Eberhardt, who lived from 1875-1952 and taught at the gymnasium of Saint-Imier.

Sources:
H. Lecomte, 1944, Flore génerale de l'Indochine, tome preliminaire: 40.