Victor Jacquemont
Venceslas Victor Jacquemont (8 August 1801 – 7 December 1832) was a French botanist and geologist known for his travels in India. • Illustration — Cypripedium cordigerum, illustration by Venceslas Victor Jacquemont
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Victor Jacquemont
Vivant Beaucé · Édouard Charton (dir.), Le Magasin pittoresque, Paris, 1851. · Public domain
- Occupation
- Botanist, Geologist.
- Born
- Victor Jacquemont was born on 8 August 1801. · Paris.
- Died
- Victor Jacquemont died on 7 December 1832. · Mumbai.
- Nationality
- France
- Fields
- botany · geology
- Education
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand · Collège de France
- Teachers
- René Louiche Desfontaines
- Languages
- French
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• Occupation — Botanist, Geologist.
Biography
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Born in Paris on August 8, 1801, Victor Jacquemont was the youngest of four sons of Frédéric François Venceslas Jacquemont de Moreau (1757-1836) and Rose Laisné. He studied medicine and later took an interest in botany. His early travels took him around Europe. He was lightly built and capable of living on a very frugal diet. After being invited by the Jardin des Plantes to collect plant and animal specimens from a country of his choice for 240 pounds a year, Jacquemont traveled to India leaving Brest in August 1828. He arrived at Calcutta on 5 May 1829. He went to Delhi on 5 March 1830 and went onwards towards the western Himalayas. He visited Amber in Rajputana, met with the Sikh Emperor Ranjit Singh at his capital of Lahore, and visited the kingdom of Ladakh in the Himalaya. He also visited Bardhaman (Burdwan) in Bengal in November 1829. In March 1831, he paid a visit to Lahore during the reign of Ranjit Singh of the Sikh Empire and met with the ruler. He died of cholera in Bombay on 7 December 1832.
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Victor Jacquemont (8 August 1801 – 7 December 1832) was a writer and “Weltreisender”. The birth of Victor Jacquemont is recorded on 8 August 1801 in Paris, France, and the death on 7 December 1832 in Bombay, India.
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1801
Victor Jacquemont was born on 8 August 1801.
1828
Letters from India: Describing a Journey in the British Dominions of India, Tibet, Lahore, and Cashmere During the Years 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831 | Victor Jacquemont is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1832
Victor Jacquemont died on 7 December 1832.
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Victor Jacquemont was born at Paris.
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Victor Jacquemont died at Mumbai.
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Several plants are named for him, including Jacquemontia pentanthos, Sky blue clustervine Vachellia jacquemontii, the Himalayan White Birch (Betula jacquemontii), the Indian Tree Hazel (Corylus jacquemontii), Afghan Cherry (Prunus jacquemontii), and the cobra lily or Jack in the pulpit (Arisaema jacquemontii).
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- 1.Venceslas Victor Jacquemont, Généalogie. gw1.geneanet.org.
- 2.Singh, Inderjeet. “Revisiting Zorawar Singh Campaign in Tibet During 1841.” The Tibet Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, 2018, pp. 17–33. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26634903 . Accessed 8 June 2024.
- 3.Gupta, Raj Kumar. Botanical explorations of Victor Jacquemont (1801-1832). Indian Journal of History of Science. 1. 2. 150–157. 1966.
- 4.Review of Correspondance de Victor Jacquemont, avec sa Famille et plusieurs de ses Amis, pendant son Voyage dans l'Inde, 1828-1832. The Quarterly Review. 53. 19–55. February 1835.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Lancaster, Roy. Bringing back the birch. The Garden. Royal Horticultural Society. 138. 11. 2013.
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