Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis

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Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis (born October 31, 1901 in Utrecht , † May 14, 1986 in Oegstgeest ) was a Dutch botanist.

Life

Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan was born as the son of Hendrik Jan van Steenis (born June 4, 1864 in Noordeloos; † November 12, 1939 in Utrecht) and Louisa Wilhelmina Susanna van Vuuren (born June 4, 1863 in Bandjermassin; † April 4 1958 in Woerden), who married on January 17, 1901 in Bussum. Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis attended school in Utrecht and from 1915 to 1920 the grammar school there, then the university in his hometown . There he completed his doctoral examination in 1925. On November 7, 1927, he received his doctorate on the subject of Malayan Bignoniaceae, their taxonomy, origin and geographical distribution under August Adriaan Pulle (1878–1955) cum laude as a doctor of natural sciences.

He then worked from 1927 to 1946 as a botanist at the herbarium of the botanical garden in Bogor . Here he took part as editor of the journal De tropische Natuur of the Dutch Indian Natural History Association. From 1946 he was active in the Netherlands and participated in the publication of the Flora Malesiana , an encyclopedic description of the flora of the Malay islands. After he had stayed in Bogor again from 1949 to 1950 , he took over the presidency of the Flora Malesiana Foundation. In December 1950 he was appointed associate professor for tropical botany at the University of Amsterdam , which task he took on on January 29, 1951 with the introductory speech Mono-molecular genoom and related to it worked at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam.

On February 8, 1952, he was appointed associate professor of tropical botany and plant geography at the University of Leiden . On May 7, 1954, he took on this task with the introductory speech Homo destruens . On August 22, 1962 he was given the full professorship for special botany and was director of the Reich Herbarium in Leiden from 1962 to 1972. On December 2, 1971, he retired from his professorship. After completing his official business, he stopped his activities with his farewell college on September 22, 1972 and left the university. In 1950 he was briefly a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences . However, this membership was canceled in the same year. He was also a corresponding member of the Botanical Society of America.

Steenis married on November 8, 1927 in Haarlem the botanist Maria Johanna (Rietje) Kruseman (born November 8, 1904 in Haarlem, † January 23, 1999 in Oegstgeest), the daughter of Hendrik George Kruseman and the Geertruida Anna Elizabeth Reijdon. The son Ir comes from the marriage. Hein van Steenis, who married the author Elisabeth Hendrika (Hans) van Perelaer. We also know the daughter Liesbeth M. van Steenis, who had a civil partnership with Wilmar AM de Jongh.

Honors

After him, the plant genera are Steenisia Bakh. f. from the family of the redness plants (Rubiaceae), Austrosteenisia R.Geesink from the family of legumes named (Fabaceae). The fern genus Steenisioblechnum Hennipman is named after him and his wife Maria Johanna van Steenis-Kruseman .

In the Leiden suburb of Oegstgeest, a street bears his name.

Works (selection)

  • The mountain flora of Java . 1972
  • Rheophytes of the world . 1981
  • The land bridge theory in botany . In Blumea, Vol. 11, pp. 235-542, 1962
  • Editor of Flora Malesiana , 1948ff.
  • Editor with MMJ van Balgooy: Pacific plant areas . 1963-1975
  • Editor with CA Backer and O. Posthumus: Vaarenflora voor Java . 1939
  • Editor with CA Backer and RC Bahhuizen van den Brink Jr .: Flora of Java , Vol. 1–3, 1963–1968.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogy link
  2. ↑ Het Utrechts Archief , Section 481 Burgerlijke: (dubbele) registers 1811–1902 Inventory number: 150, file number 2834
  3. ↑ Album Promotorum der Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht 1815-1936 en Album Promotorum der veeartsenijkundige Hoogeschool 1918-1925. EJ Brill, Leiden, 1963, p. 256
  4. ↑ Professor catalog of the University of Amsterdam
  5. ↑ Album Scholasticum Academiae Lugduno-Batavae MCMXL-MCMLXXIV. Leidsch Universiteits Fonds, Leiden, 1975, p. 105
  6. ↑ Prof. Van Steenis left Leidse universiteit. In: Nieuwe Leidsche Courant. August 18, 1972, p. 3
  7. ^ Entry at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
  8. ↑ 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 .
  9. ↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 2057. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
personal data
SURNAME Steenis, Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch botanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1986
Place of death Oegstgeest