Philippe Dautzenberg
Naturalist
Botanist. Actual, Flemish name: Rembert Dodoens. Author of the "Cruydeboek" (Herbs-book).
Born Luxembourg. Botanist, orchid specialist, explored central and south America. He was the first director of the Zoological Gardens.
Geographer. Born Flanders, son of a poor cobbler. "Mercator" is the Latin translation of his name, Gerard Kremer. He invented a means of projecting the spherical world onto a flat sheet of pape...
War dead, Science, Seriously Famous
Born Ghent. Scientist (mathematics, astronomy, meteorology, anthropology, sociology) and humorist. (Strange, we know, but that is what the "New Dictionary of Belgians" lists). First Secretary of...
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