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Jacques Bernard Hombron

1798 - 1852

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Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798–1852) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist. Hombron served on the French voyage of the Astrolabe and Zélée between 1837 and 1840 to investigate the perimeter of Antarctica. He described a number of plants and animals with Honoré Jacquinot. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Bernard Hombron has received more than 12,501 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Bernard Hombron is the 454th most popular explorer (down from 389th in 2019), the 4,881st most popular biography from France (down from 4,182nd in 2019) and the 37th most popular French Explorer.

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Over the past year Jacques Bernard Hombron has had the most page views in the with 1,533 views, followed by Spanish (609), and French (550). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (56.80%), Catalan (54.97%), and Ukrainian (34.25%)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Jacques Bernard Hombron ranks 454 out of 498Before him are Johann Ludwig Krapf, John Moresby, Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, Charles Sturt, Robert O'Hara Burke, and Edgar Evans. After him are Grigory Grum-Grshimailo, John Rae, Vassili Poyarkov, Georgy Ushakov, Isaac Israel Hayes, and Ed Stafford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1798, Jacques Bernard Hombron ranks 58Before him are Gustav Rose, Melchior von Diepenbrock, Jacques Jasmin, Christoph Gudermann, José Hilario López, and Thomas Henderson. After him are John Adams Dix, George Don, and William Edmond Logan. Among people deceased in 1852, Jacques Bernard Hombron ranks 62Before him are Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, Álvares de Azevedo, František Čelakovský, Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen, Francisco Javier Echeverría, and Christoph Gudermann. After him are Horatio Greenough, Frances Wright, Walter Forward, Andrew Jackson Downing, and John George Children.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Bernard Hombron ranks 4,881 out of 6,770Before him are Victor Thibault (1867), Florence Devouard (1968), Joseph Perotaux (1883), Sybilla of Normandy (1092), Imany (1979), and Jean Graczyk (1933). After him are André Rischmann (1882), Guillaume Bieganski (1932), Catherine Corsini (1956), Maurice Vignerot (1879), Dominique Bathenay (1954), and Pierre Bosquet (1810).

Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Jacques Bernard Hombron ranks 37Before him are Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859), Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755), Henri Duveyrier (1840), Étienne Brûlé (1592), Jacques Labillardière (1755), and Louis-Gustave Binger (1856).