Antoine Frédéric Spring

Antoine Frédéric Spring

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 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 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.[1]

As a botanist he specialized in research of Lycopodiaceae (clubmosses) and Selaginellaceae (spikemosses), and was the binomial author of numerous species from both families.[2] His personal herbarium is now kept in the herbarium at the University of Liège. His son Walthère Victor Spring became a chemist who contributed to ideas on the Greenhouse Effect, as well as to physical and organic chemistry.

References

  1. ↑ BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  2. ↑ IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Spring
  3. ↑ International Plant Names Index. Spring.


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