French botanist and politician (1798-1874).
Count Hippolyte François Jaubert (28 October 1798 – 5 December 1874) was a French politician and botanist. The standard author abbreviation Jaub. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Jaubert was born in Paris, the son of François Hippolyte Jaubert (a commissioner of the French Navy, killed at the Battle of the Nile in 1798) and Rosalie Mélanie Cheminade (a landowner at Givry, in the commune of Cours-les-Barres in the department of Cher, who died in 1817). He was adopted by his uncle, Count François Jaubert (1758–1822), Councilor of State and governor of t