Pierre-Joseph van Beneden
Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden is a paleontologist and a zoologist which specialized in Parasitologie, born the December 19th 1809 with Malines and died the January 8th 1894 with Leuwen.
It starts to study the Pharmacie at Louis Stoffels, of origin Dutch and installed with Malines. Stoffels had a Cabinet of curiosities made up of minerals, animals and fossils. The young person van Beneden whom he discovers the Natural history. He studies then the Médecine at the University of Louvain but comes to Paris, to study near Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) the Zoologie. In 1831, it is preserving Natural history museum of the front university, in 1836, to obtain there a pulpit of zoology at the catholic university of the city, function which it occupies until its death, in 1894. Several of its pupils will become large biologists of which Jules d' Udekem de Guertechin (1824-1864).
In 1842, he becomes member of the Academy of Science of Belgium which he directs in 1881. He studies the towards dishes starting from 1845. He highlights the complete vital cycle of his animals, certain stages being formerly unknown. He shows thus that these worms are not born spontaneously, but are true animals. He makes appear in 1875 Commensaux and the parasites in the animal kingdom .
Towards the end of the year 1850, it starts to study the fossil or current whales and publishes, in collaboration with the French zoologist Paul Gervais (1816-1879), Ostéographie of the Cetacea, alive and fossil (1868-1880). It founds the first laboratory and the first aquarium intended to study marine biology (1843) with Ostend. There, it is interested in the marine invertebrates and watch that the study of the Embryologie is an essential key for their classification. He becomes foreign member of the Royal Society in 1875.
His/her son is the biologist Edouard van Beneden (1846-1910).
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