Gérard Daniel Westendorp, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gérard Daniel Westendorp

Belgian botanist

Date of Birth: 08-Mar-1813

Place of Birth: The Hague, County of Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 31-Jan-1868

Profession: botanist, mycologist

Nationality: Belgium, Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Gérard Daniel Westendorp (8 March 1813, The Hague – 31 January 1869, Dendermonde) was a Dutch born, Belgian military physician and botanist. He studied medicine at the Ecole de Médecine de Bruxelles, later working as a student-physician in Antwerp.
Around 1834, he became a naturalized citizen of Belgium, subsequently serving as an assistant army and navy physician, later spending his career as a "regular doctor" in the Belgian army.As a botanist, he specialized in cryptogamic flora, being the co-publisher (with A.C.F.
Wallays) of a cryptogamic exsiccatae series of Belgium.
He also made significant contributions towards the "Prodromus Florae Batavae" project (1850-1866).
In the field of zoology, he published a treatise on Bryozoa and sponges of Belgium.Westendorp's botanical specimens are preserved in the Jardin Botanique National de Belgique.