Victor Jacquemont
Biography
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.{{cite web |url=http://gw1.geneanet.org/index.php3?b=favrejhas&lang=fr;p=venceslas+victor;n=jacquemont |title=Venceslas Victor Jacquemont, Généalogie |website=gw1.geneanet.org }} 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.Singh, Inderjeet. “Revisiting Zorawar Singh Campaign in Tibet During 1841.” The Tibet Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, 2018, pp. 17–33. JSTOR,
He died of cholera in Bombay on 7 December 1832.{{cite journal|title=Botanical explorations of Victor Jacquemont (1801-1832)| author=Gupta, Raj Kumar| year= 1966 | volume=1| issue=2|pages=150–157|url=http://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol01_2_8_RKGupta.pdf | journal=Indian Journal of History of Science}}{{sfn|Lancaster|2013|pp=51}}
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Legacy
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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Selected publications
- {{cite book|title=Correspondance de Victor Jacquemont avec sa famille et plusieurs de ses amis: pendant son voyage dans l'Inde, 1828-1832|location=Paris|publisher=H. Fournier|year=1833}}{{cite journal|title=Review of Correspondance de Victor Jacquemont, avec sa Famille et plusieurs de ses Amis, pendant son Voyage dans l'Inde, 1828-1832|journal=The Quarterly Review|volume=53|date=February 1835|pages=19–55|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015074711378;view=1up;seq=29}} {{cite book|title=édition belge|year=1834|location=Bruxelles|publisher=A. Peeters|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100732285}}
- {{cite book|title=Letters from India, 1829-1832; being a selection from the correspondence of Victor Jacquemont, trans. by Catherine Alison Phillips, John Sidney Lethbridge & K. G. Lethbridge|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=1936}}
- {{cite book|title=Voyage dans l'Inde par Victor Jacquemont, éd. François Guizot|location=Paris|publisher=Firmin Didot frères|postscript=; 1841–1844.}} {{cite book|title=Tome I|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fo4jAQAAMAAJ|year=1841|last1 = Jacquemont|first1 = Victor}}
- {{cite book|title=Lettres à Stendhal par Victor Jacquemont, éd. Pierre Maes|year=1933|location=Paris|publisher=A. Poursin & Cie}}
- {{cite book|title=Lettres de Victor Jacquemont à Jean de Charpentier, 1822-1828, éd. Léon Bultingaire, Pierre Maes & Johann von Charpentier|location=Paris|publisher=E. Leroux|year=1933}}
- {{cite book|title=État politique et social de l'Inde du Sud en 1832 par Victor Jacquemont, éd. Alfred Martineau|year=1934|location=Paris|publisher=Société de l'histoire des colonies françaises et E. Leroux}}
- {{cite book|title=Letters to Achille Chaper; intimate sketches of life among Stendhal's coterie by Victor Jacquemont, trans. by John Freer Marshall|location=Philadelphia|year=1960|publisher=American Philosophical Society}}
References
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=Bibliography=
- {{citation|last1=Lancaster|first1=Roy|year=2013|title=Bringing back the birch|journal=The Garden|volume=138|issue=11|publisher=Royal Horticultural Society}}
External links
- [http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/j/jacquemont.htm Victor Jacquemont papers at the American Philosophical Society]
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