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Gérard Daniel Westendorp

Gérard Daniel Westendorp

Dutch-born Belgian military physician and botanist

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 exsiccatae 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

  • 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]
  • 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.[5]
The standard author abbreviation Westend. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Biodiversity Heritage Library Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  2. [2]
    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
  3. [3]
    JSTOR Global Plants (biographical information)
  4. [4]
    Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
  5. [5]
    WorldCat Search (publications)
  6. [6]
    International Plant Names Index.  Westend.
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