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Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland was a French explorer and botanist who traveled with Alexander von Humboldt in Latin America from 1799 to 1804. He co-authored volumes of the scientific results of their expedition.

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science · French explorer and botanist (1773-1858) · physician · botanist · pteridologist · explorer · university teacher · botanical collector · scientific collector · naturalist · gardener · also Aimé Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland, Bonpl., Aime Bonpland, Aime Jacques Alexandre Bonpland, Goujaud

Born 29 August 1773 · Died 10 May 1858 · Q405702

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insider.si.edu: Essay on the geography of plants / Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland ; edited with an introduction by Stephen T. Jackson ; translated by Sylvie Romanowski
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MutualArt.com: Humboldt, Alexander von, and Aimé Bonpland | One of the most celebrated pictorial records of the Americas
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Oct 3, 2025Documented record70% confidence

insider.si.edu: Essay on the geography of plants / Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland ; edited with an introduction by Stephen T. Jackson ; translated by Sylvie Romanowski

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MutualArt.com: Humboldt, Alexander von, and Aimé Bonpland | One of the most celebrated pictorial records of the Americas

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2019· 1 entry

Nov 11, 2019Documented record69% confidence

JSTOR Daily: A Life in Shadow: Aimé Bonpland in Southern South America, 1817–1858

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1858· 1 entry

May 10, 1858Documented record86% confidence

Died 1858-05-10.

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1853· 1 entry

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Returned to Santa Ana, where he cultivated the orange trees he had introduced

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1829· 1 entry

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And in 1831 returned to Argentina, where he settled at San Borja in Corrientes

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Dec 8, 1821Documented record70% confidence

And Bonpland was arrested as a spy and detained at Santa Maria, Paraguay until 1829

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Established a colony at Santa Ana near the Paraná for the specific object of harvesting and selling yerba mate

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1816· 1 entry

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Took various European plants to Buenos Aires, where he was elected professor of natural history

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1813· 1 entry

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Published his Description of the Rare Plants Cultivated at Malmaison and in Navarre (Description des plantes rares cultivées à Malmaison et à Navarre)

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1802· 1 entry

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Climbed the highest mountain in Ecuador, the extinct volcano Chimborazo, to a height of 19,286 feet, at the time a world record altitude for a Westerner

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1773· 1 entry

Aug 29, 1773Documented record86% confidence

Born 1773-08-29.

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