Jacques Bernard Hombron

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. Hombron served as surgeon and botanist on the "Astrolabe" and Honoré Jacquinot was a junior surgeon on the "Zélée". A botanical account of the expedition was published in: ""Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée ... Botanique / par MM. Hombron et Jacquinot"; (2 volumes 1845-1853).
In 1847 Hombron published a two-volume work on his personal and other explorers' adventures, titled: "Aventures les plus curieuses des voyageurs : coup d'oeil autour du monde"". In 1841 Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré named the plant genus "Hombronia" in his honor.