Armand Thielens
Armand Thielens (September 2, 1833 – January 3, 1878) was a Belgian naturalist who contributed to paleontology, botany and entomology. He was a collector and a founding member of the Royal Botanical Society of Belgium.
Thielens was born in Jodoigne, the son of a postmaster in Tienen (Tirlemont). He studied the natural sciences and the only book he wrote was on the Belgian plants of medical importance which was dedicated to C. Guillery, Professor at the Museum and the Royal Athenaeum of Brussels. He manufactured vinegar in his home town.[1] He explored the Campine region[2] and travelled widely in Europe including to Italy and Luxemborg[3] on collecting trips. His herbarium collections went to the State Botanical Garden and a collection of bird specimens went to a private collector. He also had a collection of fossils. He collaborated with André Devos on plants and was a founding member of the Royal Botanical Society of Belgium. He was also a member of the Malacological Society and examined the collections of Marianna Paulucci, who invited him during his attendance at the Congresso internazionale di Botanica e dell’Esposizione internazionale di Orticoltura in 1874. He praised the organization of the collection.[4] He married Palmyre Janssens in Tienen where he also built a personal natural history museum.[5] He moved out of Tienen to Saint-Josse in 1876. He died in Paris.[6] A fungus, Sphaeria thielensii was named in his honour.[7][8]
References
[edit]- ^ Talenti E.; Innocenti G.; Lusvardi L.; Cianfanelli S. (2024). "Inventory of the Malacological Epistolary of the Correspondents of Marianna Panciatichi Ximenes d'Aragona Paulucci". Colligo. 7 (1): 1–44.
- ^ Hoste, Ivan; Diagre-Vanderpelen, Denis (2016). "Belgian botany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: from plant hunting to nascent nature conservation". Journal for the History of Environment and Society. 1: 37–63. doi:10.1484/J.JHES.5.110828. ISSN 2506-6730.
- ^ Thielens, Armand (1866). "Une excursion botanique dans le Luxembourg français". Bulletin de la Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique. 5 (3): 258–272. ISSN 0037-9557.
- ^ Le Tomlin, J. R. B. (1946). "Catalagues and collections". Journal of Molluscan Studies. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a064481. ISSN 1464-3766.
- ^ Crépin, François; Baguet, Charles; Gilbert, Charles (1873). "Compte-rendu de la Session extraordinaire de la Société royale de Botanique de Belgique et de la Société botanique de France du 15 au 22 juillet 1873". Bulletin de la Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique. 12 (3): 270–346. ISSN 0037-9557.
- ^ De Wildeman, É. "Thielens (Armand)". Biographie Nationale. Volume 24 (PDF). pp. 817–819.
- ^ Westendorp, G.-D. (1866). "Sur une excursion cryptogamique à Blankenberghe, et sur quelques cryptogames nouvelles ou inédites pour la Flore belge". Bulletin de la Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique. 5 (1): 30–45. ISSN 0037-9557.
- ^ Thielens, A. (1874). Voyage en Italie, mai-juin 1874. Description de la collection de la Marquise Paulucci, à Novoli près Florence. Tirlemont: Imprimerie P.-J. Stevens.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Thielens.
External links
[edit]- Flore médicale belge (1862)
- Les Orchidées De La Belgique Et Du Grand-Duché De Luxembourg (1873)
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