Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Belgian Catholic priest and botanist (1825–1871)
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Place of Birth: Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
About Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans
- Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans (30 October 1825, Brussels – 8 January 1871, Ghent) was a Belgian Catholic priest and botanist. In 1848 he obtained his ordination, later serving as a curate in Ghent (from 1853).
- In 1864 he became a member of the Académie royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles, followed by a professorship at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1866.
- From 1868 to 1871 he was director of a Franciscan convent in Ghent.As a taxonomist he identified the genus Fittonia (family Acanthaceae).
- The genus Coemansia is named in his honor.
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