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Jean-Baptiste Auguste Étienne Charcot
Born15 July 1867 (1867-07-15)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Died16 September 1936 (1936-09-17) (aged 69)
at sea, off Iceland
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Polar explorer, doctor
SpouseJeanne Hugo
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
Sailing career
Class0 to 0.5 ton
Medal record
Sailing
Representing  France
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1900 Paris Ton class 1st race
Silver medal – second place 1900 Paris Ton class 2nd race
Updated on 2014-02-08

Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Auguste Charcot (15 July 1867 – 16 September 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893).

Life

Jean-Baptiste Charcot was appointed leader of the French Antarctic Expedition with the ship Français exploring the west coast of Graham Land from 1904 until 1907. The expedition reached Adelaide Island in 1905 and took pictures of the Palmer Archipelago and Loubet Coast. From 1908 until 1910, another expedition followed with the ship Pourquoi-Pas, exploring the Bellingshausen Sea and the Amundsen Sea and discovering Loubet Land, Marguerite Bay and Charcot Island, which was named after his father, Jean-Martin Charcot.

Later on, Jean-Baptiste Charcot explored Rockall in 1921 and Eastern Greenland and Svalbard from 1925 until 1936. He died when Pourquoi-Pas? was wrecked in a storm off the coast of Iceland in 1936. A monument to Charcot was created in Reykjavík, Iceland by sculptor Einar Jónsson in 1936 and another by Ríkarður Jónsson in 1952.

References

  1. "Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Auguste Charcot | French explorer and oceanographer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  2. "Jean-Baptiste Charcot". thefreedictionary.com. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition. 1970–1979. Retrieved 12 June 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  3. Haas LF (October 2001). "Jean Martin Charcot (1825–93) and Jean Baptiste Charcot (1867–1936)". J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry. 71 (4): 524. doi:10.1136/jnnp.71.4.524. PMC 1763526. PMID 11561039. and here.
  • Le "Pourquoi pas?" dans l'Antarctique 1908–1910, Arthaud, Paris, 1996, ISBN 2-7003-1088-8

External links

  • Funeral of Charcot and his men in front of the Notre Dame, Paris, 1936 Funeral of Charcot and his men in front of the Notre Dame, Paris, 1936
  • Board in memory of Charcot. Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland Board in memory of Charcot. Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland
  • The Pourquoi-Pas?, Charcot's ship The Pourquoi-Pas?, Charcot's ship
  • Adelaide Island viewed from the west Adelaide Island viewed from the west
  • Location of where The Pourquoi-Pas stranded Location of where The Pourquoi-Pas stranded
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