Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Philippe Van Tieghem

Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem (born April 19, 1839 in Bailleul (North) , † April 28, 1914 in Paris ) was a French botanist and mycologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Tiegh. "

Van Tieghem studied from 1856 at the École normal supérieure and then worked in the laboratory of Louis Pasteur (one of his teachers at the ENS), where he dealt with mushroom cultivation and observed fungus growth under the microscope. In 1864 he received his doctorate in natural sciences at the Sorbonne (Recherches sur la fermentation de l'urée et de l'acide hippurique) and in 1866 in natural history. From 1873 to 1886 he taught at the École centrale des arts et manufactures and from 1878 until his death he was a professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle . He also taught at the Institut agronomique de Paris.

In 1873 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences . In 1881 he was President of the French Botanical Society . Since 1908 he was an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

In 1876 he described blastomycosis before Thomas C. Gilchrist (1896) .

His son Paul Van Tieghem from his marriage to Hélène Sarchi (daughter of Charles Sarchi ) was a literary scholar.

Fonts

  • Traité de botanique, Paris: Savy 1884, Gallica
  • Recherches comparatives sur l'origine des membres endogènes dans les plantes vasculaires, 1889
  • Eléments de botanique, 2 volumes, 2nd edition 1898

He also translated Julius von Sachs' textbook on botany (Traité de Botanique) in 1874 .

Web links

References and comments

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Philippe-Edouard-Leon Van Tieghem. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 9, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Gallica (French)
personal data
SURNAME Van Tieghem, Philippe Édouard Léon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French botanist and mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Bailleul (North) , France
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1914
Place of death Paris , France