Jacques Huber (13 October 1867
Schleitheim
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It is known as the location where the seven articles of the Schleitheim Confession were written.
Geography
Schleitheim has an ...
– 18 February 1914
Belém
Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará) often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in t ...
) was a
Swiss-
Brazil
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ian
botanist who did pioneering work on the flora of the
Amazon
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* Amazons, a tribe of female warriors in Greek mythology
* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technolog ...
from 1895 until his death. He created and organized the herbarium and arboretum in
Belém
Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará) often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in t ...
, Brazil, and was director of the
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
The Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) is a Brazilian research institution and museum located in the city of Belém, state of Pará, Brazil. It was founded in 1866 by Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna as the Pará Museum of Natural History and Ethn ...
from 1907 until he died.
Works
''Materiaes para a flora amazonica''(Vol. 1)
''Materiaes para a flora amazonica''(Vol.2)
''Materiaes para a flora amazonica''(Vol.5)
''Materiaes para a flora amazonica''(Vol.6)
''Materiaes para a flora amazonica''(Vol.7)
References
External links
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências HumanasJacques Huber and the Amazonian Botany
1867 births
1914 deaths
19th-century Swiss botanists
Expatriate academics in Brazil
20th-century Brazilian botanists
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