Nicolas Auguste Pomel | |
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Senator of Algeria (Oran) | |
In office 30 January 1876 – 7 January 1882 | |
Succeeded by | Rémy Jacques |
Personal details | |
Born | Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme, France | 20 September 1821
Died | 2 August 1898 Draâ El Mizan, Algeria | (aged 76)
Occupation | Mining engineer, Geologist, paleontologist, botanist, politician |
Nicolas Auguste Pomel (20 September 1821 – 2 August 1898) was a French geologist, paleontologist and botanist. He worked as a mines engineer in Algeria and became a specialist in north African vertebrate fossils. He was Senator of Algeria for Oran from 1876 to 1882.