Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare ( French; Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare ; September 17, 1731 , Rouen - August 24, 1807 , Paris ) - French botanist and naturalist .
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| Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare | |
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| Date of Birth | September 17, 1731 |
| Place of Birth | Rouen , France |
| Date of death | August 24, 1807 (75 years old) |
| A place of death | Paris , France |
| A country | |
| Scientific field | botany |
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation " Valmont " . Personal page on IPNI website |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Proceedings
- 3 See also
- 4 Literature
Biography
Renouncing the title of lawyer to which his father intended, Valmont de Beaumard came from his native Rouen to Paris, at the age of 19, to devote himself to the study of the natural sciences. He studied pharmaceutical art and was a pharmacist for two years; then, as a natural scientist from the government, he visited the Alps , Pyrenees , Switzerland , Italy , Germany , England , Sweden , Lapland and Iceland ; and in 1756 he returned to the fatherland, enriched with information and a collection of rarities, especially minerals , of which he made up a precious cabinet of natural history, and began to teach this science. His lectures were extremely successful. The most famous academies elected him among their members.
Proceedings
Among the published works:
- "The outline of mineralogy" (Paris, 1762),
- The Universal Dictionary of Natural History (P., 1765), supplemented later by the notes of Haller , Deleuze and Bourgeois; has been translated into almost all European languages; written more for secular people than for scientists, and has become a model of works of this kind.
See also
- Bomarea
Literature
- A. Plyushar . Encyclopedic Lexicon , Volume 8. - Typography of A. Plyushar; S.-P., 1837 - p. 172 (Valmon de Beaumard, Jacob Christopher).