Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis
Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis (31 October 1901 – 14 May 1986) was a Dutch
Biography
Van Steenis attended high school in Utrecht from 1915 to 1920. He obtained his masters and PhD at the
From 1935 to 1942, he was co-editor of De Tropische Natuur, the magazine of the Dutch East Indian Natural History Society. From 1946 to 1949 he was active in the Netherlands, where he was engaged in the organization of Flora Malesiana, a description of the flora of Maritime Southeast Asia and New Guinea.
From 1950 until his death in 1986, he was director of the Flora Malesiana Foundation. In 1951, he was appointed professor of tropical
On 5 June 1950 he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, but cancelled his membership on 1 December of that year.[1] He was also a corresponding member of the Botanical Society of America. Elected a Foreign Member of the Linnean Society in 1960.[2]
The Van Steenis Building of the University of Leiden, the Rubiaceae genus Steenisia, and the street Cornelis van Steenishof in Oegstgeest are named after him.
References
Footnotes
- ^ "C.G.G.J. van Steenis (1901 - 1986)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 2 May 2019.
- ^ "Record of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society". The Linnean. 3 (1): 43. January 1987.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Steenis.
Sources
- Kees Kalkman, C. G. G. J. van Steenis (1901–1986) in Taxon, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Nov. 1986), pp. 937–938
- Charles H. Smith, Steenis, Gijsbert Gerrit Jan Cornelis "Kees" of (Netherlands 1901-1986), phytogeography, floristics tics, conservation, 2005
- Steenis, Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van, at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands
- Van Steenis, Kees (1901–1986), ASBS Newsletter No. 47, June 1986
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