Pierre Joseph Eyma, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetPierre Joseph Eyma
Dutch botanist
Date of Birth: 25-Jul-1903
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1945
Profession: botanist
Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Pierre Joseph Eyma
- Pierre Joseph Eyma (25 July 1903 – 1945) was a Dutch botanist.Eyma was born in Maarssen, Netherlands, in 1903.
- He studied at Utrecht University and served as an assistant at the university's herbarium between 1929 and 1937.
- Eyma earned a doctorate in 1932 for a taxonomic thesis on Surinamese plants.
- He travelled to Java in 1937 and in the following years made numerous botanical expeditions throughout the Dutch East Indies.
- Beginning in 1940, Eyma worked as an assistant at Herbarium Bogoriense in Bogor, Java.
- He died in 1945 in a Japanese POW camp near Palembang, Sumatra.A number of plant species have been named after him, including Eurya eymae, Nepenthes eymae, and Randia eymai.
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