Lucien Leon Hauman-Merck (8 July 1880, in

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– 16 September 1965, in

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) was a Belgian

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who studied and collected plants in South America and Africa. He received his education in

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, and afterwards relocated to

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, where he obtained a position in the department of

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and

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at the

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. From 1904 to 1925, he taught classes in botany,

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and agricultural

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at the university. In 1910, he laid the foundations for its

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.Hauman, Lucien León (1880–1965)
JSTOR Global Plants In Argentina he conducted important phytogeographical research, and he also performed plant collection duties that involved excursions to

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and

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. In 1927, he returned to Europe, where from 1928 to 1949, he served as a professor of botany at the Free University of Brussels. During this time period, he studied African flora, about which, he collected numerous plants in the

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. In 1949, he returned to Argentina as an honorary professor at the University of Buenos Aires. The "Jardín Botánico Lucien Hauman" at the university is named in his honor. The genera '' Haumania'' (J.Léonard, 1949) and '' Haumaniastrum'' (P.A.Duvign. et Plancke, 1959) commemorate his name, as do species with the epithet of ''haumanii''.

Honours

* 1932: Commander in the

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Selected works

''Note préliminaire sur les Hordeum spontanés de la flore Argentine''
* ''Catalogue des phanérogames de l'Argentine'', 1917 – Catalog of

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s native to Argentina. * ''La végétation des hautes cordillères de Mendoza'', 1918 – Vegetation of the high

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of Mendoza. * ''Le végétation de l'île de Martín García dans le Río de la Plata'', 1925 – Vegetation of

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in the Rio de Plata. * , 1947 – Vegetation of Argentina.Most widely held works by Lucien Hauman
WorldCat Identities

References

External links

* *Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Asociación Latinoamericana de Fitotecnia
Las Ciencias agrícolas en América Latina: progreso y futuro
Hauman, Lucien Leon Hauman, Lucien Leon Hauman, Lucien Leon People from Ixelles 20th-century Belgian botanists Academic staff of the Free University of Brussels (1834–1969) Academic staff of the University of Buenos Aires Botanists active in South America {{Belgium-botanist-stub