Jean-Henri Humbert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French botanist
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Place of Birth: 4th arrondissement of Paris, ÃŽle-de-France, France
About Jean-Henri Humbert
- Jean-Henri Humbert (24 January 1887 – 20 October 1967) was a French botanist born in Paris. He studied physics, chemistry and natural sciences in Rennes and Paris, and following a scientific excursion to Madagascar, he worked as a university assistant at the faculty of Clermont-Ferrand (from 1913).
- In 1919 he was appointed to the chair of botany, subsequently teaching botany classes at the institute of chemistry and industrial technology (1920–22).
- In 1922 he relocated to Algiers, where he became chef de travaux to the faculty of sciences.
- In 1931 he succeeded Henri Lecomte (1856-1934) as chair of botany at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. Humbert was a member of the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer (1938) and the Société botanique de France, serving as its president from 1940 to 1944.
- He was also a member of the Institut de France and the Société d’Histoire Naturelle de l’Afrique du Nord.
- From 1951 to 1957 he was a member of the Académie des Sciences. He has a handful of botanical genera named after him, including Humbertiella from the tribe Hibisceae.
- He was an editor of the journal "Flore de Madagascar et des Comores" (Flora of Madagascar and the Comoros).
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