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Aimé Bonpland.
Aimé Bonpland.
"Bonpland" redirects here. For the lunar crater, see Bonpland (crater). Bonpland is the remains of a lunar crater that is attached to the walled plain Fra Mauro to the north and Parry to the east

Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (22 August 1773 - 4 May 1858) was a French explorer and botanist. Events 392 - Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. Year 1773 ( MDCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1256 - The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV Year 1858 ( MDCCCLVIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. This list of explorers is sorted by surname See also the links below. Botany, plant science(s, phytology, or plant biology is a branch of Biology and is the scientific study of plant Life

Bonpland's real name was Goujaud, and he was born in La Rochelle, a coastal city in France. La Rochelle is a city in western France, and a Seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. After serving as a surgeon in the French army, and studying under J. Surgery (from the χειρουργική cheirourgikē, via chirurgiae meaning "hand work" is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental N. Corvisart at Paris, he accompanied Alexander von Humboldt during five years of travel in Mexico, Colombia and the districts bordering on the Orinoco and Amazon rivers. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city (September 14 1769 &ndash May 6 1859 was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister philosopher and linguist The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Colombia (kəˈlʌmbɪə officially the Republic of Colombia () is a country in northwestern South America. ORiNOCO is the brand name that was used for a family of wireless networking solutions by Proxim (previously Lucent) The Amazon River (Rio Amazonas Río Amazonas of South America is the largest river in the world by volume with a total river flow greater than the next top ten largest rivers In these explorations he collected and classified about 60 000 plants that were, until then, mostly unknown in Europe. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. He later described his finds in Plantes equinoxiales (Paris, 1808-1816). A semi-fictional account of these travels is to be found in Daniel Kehlmann's Die Vermessung der Welt (also published in American English as Measuring the World: A Novel, translated by Carol Brown Janeway). Daniel Kehlmann (born January 13, 1975 in Munich) is a German language author

On returning to Paris he received a pension and the superintendence of the gardens at Malmaison, and published Monographie des Melastomes (1806), and Description des plantes rares cultivées à Malmaison et à Navarre (1813). The Château de Malmaison is a country house (or Château) in the city of Rueil-Malmaison about 12 km (7 mi from Paris. In 1816 he set out, taking with him various European plants, for Buenos Aires, where he was elected professor of natural history, an office which he soon left in order to explore central South America. Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is geographically located on the southern shore of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern South America is a Continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a While journeying to Bolivia he was arrested in 1821, by command of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, the dictator of Paraguay, who detained him until 1831. The Republic of Bolivia (República de Bolivia) named after Simón Bolívar, is a Landlocked country in central South America. Dr José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco ( January 6, 1766 &ndash September 20, 1840) was the first leader of Paraguay Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay ( Spanish: República del Paraguay; Guaraní: Tetã Paraguái) is one of the only

On regaining liberty he resided at San Borga in the province of Corrientes, Argentina until his removal in 1853 to Santa Ana, in Misiones, today a small town called "Bonpland" in his honor, close to Restauracion where he died. Foto-0065jpg|thumb|216px|The Belgrano Bridge]]Plaza 25 de mayo Corrientes For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics.

The lunar crater Bonpland is named after him. This is a list of craters on the Moon. The large majority of these features are Impact craters The crater nomenclature is governed by the International Bonpland is the remains of a lunar crater that is attached to the walled plain Fra Mauro to the north and Parry to the east

A fort in Palermo Holywood, Buenos Aires, is named after him as well.

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References

  1. ^ Brummitt, R. K. ; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, usually referred to simply as Kew Gardens, are extensive Gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and ISBN 1-84246-085-4.  
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