Pierre-Joseph van Beneden

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Pierre-Joseph van Beneden
Statue of Pierre-Joseph van Beneden in Mechelen

Pierre-Joseph van Beneden (born December 19, 1809 in Mechelen , † January 8, 1894 in Leuven / Belgium ) was a Flemish- Belgian parasitologist and paleontologist who is best known as a helminthologist for his research on tapeworms (Cestoda).

Life

Van Beneden initially trained with the pharmacist Louis Stoffels in Mechelen , where he got to know his collection of fossils , minerals and animal preparations . He studied medicine in Leuven until 1831 and comparative anatomy in Ghent and further specialized in zoology at the Natural History Museum in Paris. From 1835 he was curator of the Natural History Museum in Leuven and in 1836 he was appointed professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the Catholic University of Leuven . He dealt intensively with questions of parasitology and coined the term commensalism . In 1843 van Beneden set up the world's first marine research station in Ostend at his own expense, the “laboratoire des Dunes”, which became a magnet for Belgian, German and French marine biologists and a prototype of similar research facilities in the European coastal states and the USA. From 1859 he turned to the research of whales and wrote the standard work Ostéographie des cétacés vivants et fossiles (1869) with Paul Gervais .

In 1859 he became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and in 1869 a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg . Since 1866 he was a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences and a foreign member since 1894 . In 1875 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society and in 1884 an honorary member ( Honoray Fellow ) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1886 van Beneden was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Van Beneden was a member of the Linnaeus Society . When La Société Cuvierienne was founded in 1838 , he was one of the 140 founding members of the society. His son was the biologist Édouard van Beneden .

Works (selection)

  • Anatomie comparée , Volume 48 of Encyclopédie populaire, Jamar Verlag, 1852
  • Memoire Sur Les Vers Intestinaux (1858), new edition, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010, ISBN 1160184240
  • with Paul Gervais: Ostéographie des cétacés vivants et fossiles , 1869
  • Les Commensaux Et Les Parasites Dans Le Regne Animal (1875), Kessinger Publishing , LLC, 2010, ISBN 1160558639
  • The parasites of the animal kingdom . Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1876
  • Description des ossements fossiles des environs d'Anvers: (Planches) Genres: Amphicetus, Heterocetus, Mesocetus, Idiocetus & Isocetus , Volume 5, Verlag Hayez, 1886

literature

  • Gabriel Hamoir: "La révolution évolutionniste en Belgique: du fixiste Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden à son fils darwiniste Édouard". In: Annales de Médecine Vétérinaire 146 , 2002, pp. 43-48.
  • Gabriel Hamoir, The breakthrough of darwinism in Belgium. From the creationist Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden to his Darwinian son Edouard ("La révolution évolutionniste en Belgique: du fixiste Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden à son darwiniste Édouard"), Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2001.
  • Matthias Breyne, Jan Seys, Ann-Katrien Lescrauwaet, Heidi Debergh, Jan Haspeslagh, Heike Lust, Jan Mees: The World's very first marine research station In Ostend (Belgium) . In: Earthzine August 18, 2010.
  • Société Cuvierienne: List of the Premiers Fondateurs de La Société Cuvierienne, Association universelle pour l'avancement de la Zoologie, de L'Anatomie comparée et de la Palaeontologie . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 1 , 1838, p. 189-192 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
  • Werner Köhler : Beneden, Pierre Joseph van. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 163.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Past Members: Pierre-Joseph van Beneden (1809-1894). KNAW, accessed October 8, 2019 .
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Beneden, Pierre Joseph van. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 8, 2019 (Russian).
  3. ^ List of former members since 1666: Letter V. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 9, 2020 (French).
  4. ^ Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 8, 2019 .
  5. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1850–1899 ( PDF ). Retrieved September 24, 2015
  6. ^ Société Cuvierienne, p. 192.
personal data
SURNAME Van Beneden, Pierre-Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian parasitologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Mechelen
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1894
Place of death Lions