Charles François Antoine Morren
Charles François Antoine Morren (born March 3, 1807 in Ghent , † December 17, 1858 in Liège ) was a Belgian botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " C. Morren ".
Life
Morren studied in Ghent from 1825 and received his doctorate in 1829 with a dissertation on biology. He then received a scholarship to continue studying abroad, but this was cut off by the events of Belgian independence. From 1833 to 1835 he taught physics at the University of Ghent (as he did at the industrial school in Ghent from 1831) and studied medicine there, graduating in 1835 (candidate examination and honorary doctorate). In the same year he became associate professor of botany at the University of Liège with a full professorship in 1837, which he held until 1854. He also directed the Botanical Garden of the University of Liège.
Morren is known for discovering how vanilla is dusted in 1836 . He found that a special type of bee found only in Mexico was needed. Morren developed a method of artificial pollination, which made it possible to grow vanilla in the French colonies.
He was the father of the botanist Charles Jacques Édouard Morren , with whom he published the journal La Belgique horticole, journal des jardins et des vergers (35 volumes, 1851 to 1885). He was also editor of the Horticulteur belge from 1833 to 1836 , of the Annales de la Société royale d'agriculture et de botanique de Gand from 1845 to 1849 and of the Journal d'agriculture pratique from 1848 to 1855 .
In 1849 he introduced the term phenology in a lecture (and in a publication in 1853) for seasonal cycles of plants and animals.
Honors
Charles François Antoine Morren was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1836 . In 1835 he became a corresponding and in 1838 a full member of the Académie royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles.
In 1838 John Lindley named the genus Morrenia from the family of the dog poison plants (Apocynaceae) after him.
Fonts
- Essai sur l'influence de la lumière dans la manifestation des êtres organisés, 1835
- Études d'anatomie et de physiologie végétales, 1841
- Notions élémentaires de sciences naturelles, 1844
- Lobelia, 1851
Web links
- French biography, BE STOR
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Charles François Antoine Morren at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roster Leopoldina, Charles Morren
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morren, Charles François Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ghent |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 17, 1858 |
| Place of death | Liege |