Beneden

Beneden 

(van Beneden), Belgian biologists.

Pierre Joseph van Beneden. Born Dec. 19,1809, in Malines; died Jan. 8, 1894, in Louvain. Embryologist.

Beneden was a professor at the University of Ghent (from 1845) and the University of Louvain (from 1846). In 1842 he became a member of and in 1881 president of the Belgian Academy of Sciences. His works were mainly in the field of invertebrate embryology and on general problems in biology (parasitism, commensalism).

WORKS

Mémoire sur les vers intestinaux. Paris, 1858.
In Russian translation:
O glistakh. Moscow, 1861.
Edouard van Beneden. Born Mar. 5, 1846, in Louvain; died Apr. 28, 1910, in Liége. Histologist and embryologist; son of Pierre Joseph van Beneden. Edouard became a professor at the University of Liége in 1870. His works were on cell morphology and the embryology of lower animals. He was the first to describe (1883) the maturation of ova and fertilization in ascarids; he also established a new animal group—Mesozoa.

WORKS

“Recherches sur les Dicyemides, survivants actuéis d’un embranchement des Mésozoaires.” Bulletins de l’Académie Royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, 1876, vols. 41–42.
“Nouvelles recherches sur la fécondation et la division mitosique chez l’ascaride mégalocéphale.” Ibid., series 3, 1887, vol. 14. (With A. Neyt.)
“Recherches sur la maturation de l’oeuf et la fécondation. . . .” Archives de biologie, 1883, vol. 4, issues 2–3.