Count Hippolyte François Jaubert 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 and Rosalie Mélanie Cheminade. He was adopted by his uncle, Count François Jaubert, Councilor of State and governor of the Bank of France under the First Empire. Although Jaubert was passionate about natural history, his uncle made him study law, while allowing him to study with René Desfontaines and Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu. He was called to the bar in 1821, but shortly afterwards his uncle died, Jaubert inheriting the title of Count and an immense fortune. With this money he was able to buy large landholdings in Berry, ten blast furnaces in the departments of Nièvre and Cher, and become director of the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans, all the while concentrating on botany and politics.
He married Marie Boigues, sister of Louis Boigues, a manufacturer at Imphy and founder of the town of Fourchambault. They had two children:
Louis Hippolyte Francois Jaubert, who became prefect of the department of Sarthe;