Gérard Daniel Westendorp (8 March 1813, The Hague – 31 January 1869, Dendermonde) was a Dutch born, Belgian military physician and botanist.
He studied medicine at the Ecole de Médecine de Bruxelles, later working as a student-physician in Antwerp. Around 1834, he became a naturalized citizen of Belgium, subsequently serving as an assistant army and navy physician, later spending his career as a "regular doctor" in the Belgian army.[1][2]
As a botanist, he specialized in cryptogamic flora, being the co-publisher (with A.C.F. Wallays) of a cryptogamic exsiccata series of Belgium. He also made significant contributions towards the "Prodromus Florae Batavae" project (1850-1866). In the field of zoology, he published a treatise on Bryozoa and sponges of Belgium.[3]
Westendorp's botanical specimens are preserved in the Jardin Botanique National de Belgique.[2]
Selected works
edit- Herbier cryptogamique, ou, Collection des plantes cryptogames et agames qui croissent en Belgique, 1845-1859 (exsiccata series; starting with 1849 together with A.C.F. Wallays).[4][5]
- Notices sur quelques cryptogames, 1851-1863.
- Polypiers flexibles de la Belgique. Collection des bryozaires, sertulaires, flustres & spongiaires qu'on rencontre en Belgique, et particuliérement aux environs d'Ostende, 1853.
- Les cryptogames : classes d'apres leurs stations naturelles, 1854.
- Description de quelques Cryptogames inédites ou nouvelles pour la flore des deux Flandres, 1863.[6]
References
edit- ^ Biodiversity Heritage Library Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ^ a b Revue du Cercle de Mycologie de Bruxelles Archived 2013-10-13 at the Wayback Machine Quelques grandes figures de la mycologie belge par André Fraiture
- ^ JSTOR Global Plants (biographical information)
- ^ Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
- ^ "Herbier cryptogamique ou collection des plantes cryptogames et agames qui croissent en Belgique: IndExs ExsiccataID=959403156". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ WorldCat Search (publications)
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Westend.