Edouard van Beneden

Statue of Édouard van Benedens in front of the Liège Zoological Institute

Édouard Joseph Louis-Marie van Beneden (born March 5, 1846 in Leuven ; † April 28, 1910 in Liège ) was a Belgian zoologist and worked primarily in the fields of developmental biology and cytology .

Life

Édouard van Beneden was the son of the parasitologist and paleontologist Pierre-Joseph van Beneden . He studied medicine and zoology.

Édouard van Beneden was professor of zoology at the University of Leiden and from 1874, as the successor to Theodor Schwann, professor of zoology at the University of Liège .

Van Beneden mainly investigated the early developmental stages of mammals (1875 of rabbits and bats), later of sea urchins and other invertebrates. He mainly described the behavior of the chromosomes and the reduction division .

In 1887 he was elected a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and in 1888 a member of the Scholars' Academy Leopoldina . Since 1891 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In June 1901 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences and in December 1902 of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

The Beneden Head , a cliff-like cape in the northwest of the Antarctic Peninsula, is named after him .

Works

Research on the maturation de l'oeuf, la fécondation et la division cellulaire. Arch. De Biol. IV. Gand. 1883
van Beneden and Neyt: Nouvelles recherches sur la fécondation et la division mitosique chez l'ascaride mégalocéphale. Bull. Ac. roy de Belgique. 1887.
Les Anthozoaires de la Plankton Expedition; The anthozoa of the plankton expedition . In: Results of the Humboldt Foundation's plankton expedition in the Atlantic Ocean from mid-July to early November 1889 . Lipsius and Tischer, Kiel and Leipzig 1898 E-Text at BioLib.de

literature

MC Van Dyck: Édouard van Beneden. 2011. doi : 10.1002 / 9780470015902.a0002933

source

Ilse Jahn (Ed.): History of Biology. 2000

Individual evidence

^ Members of the previous academies. Édouard-Joseph-Louis-Marie van Beneden. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 20, 2015 .

↑ Member entry of Edouard van Beneden at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 4, 2017.

^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Beneden, Édouard van. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 2, 2019 (Russian).

Web links

Commons : Édouard van Beneden - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Édouard van Beneden in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	van Beneden, Édouard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	van Beneden, Édouard Joseph Louis-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian developmental biologist and cytologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lions
DATE OF DEATH	April 28, 1910
Place of death	Liege

[1] Members of the previous academies. Édouard-Joseph-Louis-Marie van Beneden. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on February 20, 2015 .

[2] Member entry of Edouard van Beneden at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 4, 2017.

[3] Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Beneden, Édouard van. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 2, 2019 (Russian).