DierckxEPF

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Dierckx, E.P. Frans

(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Addenda & Corrigenda)

Born: 1863, Turnhout, Belgium. Died: 1937, Godinne, Belgium.

career:

Roman Catholic priest (1895), biologist who specialized in the study of Penicillium. From May 1901-Sept. 1902 he made a study tour to Java, Ceylon¹ and British India. Since 1903 teacher in the Faculty of Sciences at Namur.

Collecting localities:

1901-02.² Java (8 months, till Apr. 1902): mainly at Buitenzorg, in the Foreigners’ Laboratory; climbing six volcanoes.

collections:

Herb. Namur [NAM]: 50 Java plants.

literature:

(1) E.P.F. Dierckx: ‘Six semaines a Ceylon’ (Missions Belges de la Compagnie de Jésus, 1903-04) (non vidi).
(2) cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 26-27.

biographical data:

Taxandria nos 1 and 2, 1938, 12 pp. + portr.

	Career Collecting localities Collections Literature Biographical data
	Dierckx, E.P. Frans
	(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors, Addenda & Corrigenda)
	Born: 1863, Turnhout, Belgium. Died: 1937, Godinne, Belgium.
	career: Roman Catholic priest (1895), biologist who specialized in the study of Penicillium. From May 1901-Sept. 1902 he made a study tour to Java, Ceylon¹ and British India. Since 1903 teacher in the Faculty of Sciences at Namur.
	Collecting localities: 1901-02.² Java (8 months, till Apr. 1902): mainly at Buitenzorg, in the Foreigners’ Laboratory; climbing six volcanoes.
	collections: Herb. Namur [NAM]: 50 Java plants.
	literature: (1) E.P.F. Dierckx: ‘Six semaines a Ceylon’ (Missions Belges de la Compagnie de Jésus, 1903-04) (non vidi). (2) cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 26-27.
	biographical data: Taxandria nos 1 and 2, 1938, 12 pp. + portr.