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Léon Becker

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Léon Becker
Molen in Genck (Emile Van Doren museum).
Molen in Genck (Emile Van Doren museum).
Born1826
Brussels, Belgium
Died27 January 1909
Brussels, Belgium
Notable workLes arachnides de Belgique
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Léon Becker (1826 – 27 January 1909) was a Belgian botanist, painter, naturalist, and arachnologist.[1][2]

Biography

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From a young age, he became passionate about entomology, with a particular interest in arachnology. He is the author of the first studies on Belgian spiders.[3] Between 1882 and 1896, he published four volumes entitled Les Arachnides de la Belgique,[4] which he illustrated himself. His lithographs are of very high quality.

He also studied Dutch, German, Moldavian and Hungarian fauna.

Painting by Léon Becker (1884), exhibited at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, representing the mounting of the first iguanodon of Bernissart in the St. George Chapel in Brussels in 1882.

References

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  1. ^ "Léon Becker". The British Museum. 25 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Dictionnaire des Peintres belges: 218 BECKER, Léon". peintres.kikirpa.be. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  3. ^ Becker, Léon (1882). Les arachnides de Belgique. Bruxelles: F. Hayez. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.48721.
  4. ^ "Arachnides de Belgique". library.si.edu. 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2024.