Charles Jacques Édouard Morren
Charles Jacques Édouard Morren (born December 2, 1833 in Ghent , † February 28, 1886 in Liège ) was a Belgian professor of botany and from 1857 to 1886, succeeding his father Charles François Antoine Morren, director of the Jardin botanique de l'Université de Liège . His interest was in the bromeliads . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " E. Morren ".
Life
Édouard Morren was editor of the horticultural magazine La Belgique Horticole , which appeared between 1851 and 1885 and in which he also described numerous new plant species , together with his father . His work on a comprehensive monograph on the bromeliad family was interrupted by his death at the age of 53. Manuscripts and watercolors were sold by his widow to the library at Kew Gardens , where they could be evaluated by John Gilbert Baker and Carl Christian Mez , who described many of the species that Morren had no longer published. Baker used Morren's drawings in his Handbook of the Bromeliaceae , published in 1889. Morren employed four draftsmen to work out the panels: Marie Jean Guillaume Cambresier, R. Sartorius, Francois Stroobant (1819–1916) and François De Tollenaere. Her artistic style later influenced Margaret Mee .
Honors
Charles Jacques Édouard Morren was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1857 . He was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .
Fonts (selection)
- Dissertation on les feuilles vertes et colorées envisagées spécialement au point de vue des rapports de la chlorophylle et de l'érythrophylle. Gand: Annoot-Braeckman, 1858 Archives
- Charles Morren: sa vie et ses oeuvres. 2nd ed., Gand: Annoot-Braeckman, 1860
- Mémorandum des travaux de botanique et de physiologie végétale qui ont été publiés par l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-arts de Belgique pendant le premier siècle de son existence (1772 - 1871). Brussels: Hayez, 1872
- Description of the Institute Botanique de l'Université de Liége. Liége: Boverie, 1885
literature
- François Crépin : Notice Biographique Charles-Jacques-Édouard Morren . In: Bulletin de la Société royale de botanique de Belgique . tape 26 , 1887, p. 7–40 ( online [accessed December 16, 2015]).
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Charles Jacques Édouard Morren at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ^ RK Brummitt, CE Powell: Authors of Plant Names . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew , 1992, ISBN 1-84246-085-4 .
- ↑ Jean et Joseph Cambresier, petits maîtres, liégeois de talent ( Memento of the original of July 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Roster Leopoldina, Charles Jacques Édouard Morren
- ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morren, Charles Jacques Édouard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morren, Édouard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ghent |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1886 |
| Place of death | Liège |