Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans
Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans (30 October 1825, Brussels – 8 January 1871, Ghent) was a Belgian Catholic priest and botanist.
In 1848 he obtained his ordination, later serving as a curate in Ghent (from 1853). In 1864 he became a member of the Académie royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles, followed by a professorship at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1866. From 1868 to 1871 he was director of a Franciscan convent in Ghent.[1]
As a taxonomist he identified the genus Fittonia (family Acanthaceae).[2] The genus Coemansia is named in his honor.[3]
Selected works
- Monographie du genre Pilobolus, Tode, spècialement ètudiè au point de vue anatomique et physiologique, 1861 - Monograph of the genus Pilobolus.
- Spicilège mycologique, 1862 - Mycological scrapbook.
- Notices biographiques sur quelques lichenographes celebres, 1864 - Biographical notices of some celebrated lichenologists.
- Monographie des Spenophyllum d'Europe (with Jean Jacques Kickx), 1864 - Monograph on Sphenophyllum of Europe.[4]
- Description de la flore fossile du premier ètage du terrain crètacè du Hainaut, 1867 - Description of fossil flora from the first stage of the Cretaceous terrain in Hainaut.[5]
References
- ↑ ODIS - Database Intermediary Structures Flanders (biographical sketch)
- ↑ IPNI List of plants described by Coemans
- ↑ Journal of Botany, British and Foreign Robert Hardwicke, 1879
- ↑ Google Books Monographie des Spenophyllum d'Europe
- ↑ WorldCat Identities (published works)
- ↑ IPNI. Coem.
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