Antoine Frédéric Spring, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Antoine Frédéric Spring

Belgian physician and botanist

Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1814

Place of Birth: Gerolsbach, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 17-Jan-1872

Profession: physician, university teacher, physiologist, botanist, entomologist, explorer

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Antoine Frédéric Spring (8 April 1814 in Gerolsbach, Bavaria – 17 January 1872) was a German-born, Belgian physician and botanist. He studied botany and medicine at the University of Munich, obtaining his PhD in 1835 and his medical doctorate during the following year.
From 1839 to 1872 he was a professor at the University of Liège, initially in the fields of physiology and anatomy, later teaching classes in pathology and internal medicine.As a botanist he specialized in research of Lycopodiaceae (clubmosses) and Selaginellaceae (spikemosses), and was the binomial author of numerous species from both families.
His personal herbarium is now kept in the herbarium at the University of Liège.