Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans Explained
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]
Coemans issued the exsiccata Cladoniae Belgicae exsiccatae, quas collegit et distribuit, schedulis criticis additis, Eugenius Coemans.[6]
Notes and References
- https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://www.odis.be/lnk/PS_18165&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Coemans,%2BHenri%2522%2B1825%26rlz%3D1C2_____enUS441US455%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D667 ODIS - Database Intermediary Structures Flanders
- http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_authorAbbrev=Coem. IPNI
- https://books.google.com/books?id=ufwWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA158 Journal of Botany, British and Foreign
- https://books.google.com/books/about/Monographie_des_Spenophyllum_d_Europe.html?id=nx2dnQEACAAJ Google Books
- http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/viaf-121776365 WorldCat Identities
- Web site: Cladoniae Belgicae exsiccatae, quas collegit et distribuit, schedulis criticis additis, Eugenius Coemans: IndExs ExsiccataID=534444630 . IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae . Botanische Staatssammlung München . 19 July 2024.
