Naturalist · 1794–1880
Naturalist
Sabin Berthelot was a French naturalist and traveller linked to the scientific study of the Canary Islands. Together with Philip Barker Webb he published Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries.
The Bibliothèque nationale de France records Sabin Berthelot as a French traveller born in Paris on 4 April 1794 and deceased in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 10 November 1880. It also documents his direction of the botanical garden of La Orotava, placing his scientific activity within the Canarian context.
His name is associated with Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries, a work published in Paris by Béthune with Philip Barker Webb from 1836. The 1840 volume on botanical geography and the IPNI authority record support treating him as a relevant figure for Canarian botany and plant nomenclature.
Berthelot also published Antiquités canariennes, a work devoted to the antiquities and ancient populations of the archipelago. His legacy brings together travel, natural history and an archaeological view of the Canary Islands within nineteenth-century European science.
