Alfred Cogniaux

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(Célestin) Alfred Cogniaux

(Célestin) Alfred Cogniaux (born April 7, 1841 in Robechies , Belgium, † April 15, 1916 in Genappe ) was a Belgian botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Cogn. "

Live and act

He was a lecturer and curator at the Botanical Garden in Brussels from 1872-1880. Later (1880–1901) he was a professor of natural history a. a. in Verviers ; he was also Vice Consul for Brazil. His main research areas were orchids , cucurbits and black- mouthed plants . In 1916 his extensive herbarium came into the possession of the national Belgian botanical garden ( Nationale Plantentuin van België - Jardin botanique national de Belgique ).

Honor taxon

Henri Ernest Baillon named the pumpkin genus Cogniauxia in his honor and Rudolf Schlechter named the orchid genus Neocogniauxia after him. Otto Kuntze called the mushroom genus of biscogniauxia Biscogniauxia after him. The species Gurania cogniauxiana from the pumpkin family is also named after him.

Publications

  • De Saldanha da Gama, J., Cogniaux, A. Bouquet de Mélastomacées brésiliennes dédiées a Sa Majesté Dom Pedro II empereur du Brésil. A. Remacle, 1887 Verviers. Botanicus
  • Cogniaux, A., Melastomaceae. G. Masson, Paris 1891
  • Cogniaux, Alfredus, Orchidaceae. Vol. III, part IV, V and VI of Flora Brasiliensis. Lipsiae (= Leipzig), Frid. Fleischer, 1893-1906
  • Linden, L., Cogniaux, A. & Grignan, G., Les orchidées exotiques et leur culture en Europe. (1019 pages) Bruxelles; Paris. chez l'auteur. Octave Doin, 1894.
  • Cogniaux, A., Goossens, A .: Dictionnaire Iconographique des Orchidees; 2 vol. (826 pl., 315 p.), 1896 - 1907. Perthes en Gâtinais (France), Institut des Jardins. 1990, ISBN 2-908041-01-4
  • Cogniaux, A., Harms, H. Cucurbitaceae-Cucurbiteae-Cucumerinae (2 vols.) W. Engelmann, Leipzig, 1924.

swell

  • Short biography
  • de Wildeman, Émile : "Alfred Cogniaux (1841-1916)". Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de l'État à Bruxelles 5: I – XXX, 1919
  • Jacquet, Pierre: "Un orchidologue belge digne de mémoire: Alfred Cogniaux (1841-1916)". L'Orchidophile, numéro 157, 2003.
  • Author entry and list of the described plant names for Alfred Cogniaux at the IPNI
  • Renner, Susanne S .: "CA Cogniaux (1841-1916)". BLUMEA 35: p. 1-3, 1990

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1906. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
  2. ↑ IPNI
  3. ↑ a b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Cogniaux, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cogniaux, Célestin Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Robechies , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1916
Place of death Genappe