Charles Jacques Édouard Morren

Charles Jacques Édouard Morren (* 1833, † 1886 in Liège) was a Belgian professor of botany and from 1857 to 1886 as the successor of his father Charles François Antoine Morren director of the Jardin botanique de l' Université de Liège. He was interested in the bromeliad plants. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " E.Morren ".

Life

Édouard Morren was with his father editor of Horticulture magazine La Belgique Horticole, which appeared in 1851-1885 and in which he described many new species of plants. His work on a comprehensive monograph Bromeliaceae was interrupted by his death at age 53. Manuscripts and watercolor illustration boards were sold by his widow to the library of Kew Gardens, where they could be evaluated by John Gilbert Baker and Carl Christian Mez, which described many no longer published by Morren species. Baker used the drawings Morrens in his Handbook of the Bromeliaceae, which appeared in 1889. In preparing the panels Morren had four signatories busy: Jean Marie Guillaume Cambresier, R. Sartorius, François Stroobant (1819-1916) and François De Tollenaere. Her artistic style influenced later Margaret Mee.

Works (selection)

• Dissertation sur les feuilles rouges et colorées envisagées spécialement au point de vue des rapports de la chlorophylle et de l' érythrophylle. Gand: Annoot - Braeckman, 1858
• Mémorandum des travaux de Botanique et de qui ont été physiology végétale publiés par l' Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux -Arts de Belgique pendant le premier siècle de son existence (1772 - 1871). Brussels: Hayez, 1872
• Description de l'Institut Botanique de l' Université de Liége. Liége: Boveri, 1885