Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans
Henri Eugène Lucien Gaëtan Coemans was a Belgian Catholic priest and botanist.
In 1848 he obtained his ordination, later serving as a curate in Ghent. In 1864 he became a member of the Académie royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles, followed by a professorship at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1866. From 1868 to 1871 he was director of a Franciscan convent in Ghent.
As a taxonomist he identified the genus Fittonia. The genus Coemansia is named in his honor.Selected works
- Monographie du genre Pilobolus, Tode, spècialement ètudiè au point de vue anatomique et physiologique, 1861 - Monograph of the genus Pilobolus.
- Spicilège mycologique, 1862 - Mycological scrapbook.
- Notices biographiques sur quelques lichenographes celebres, 1864 - Biographical notices of some celebrated lichenologists.
- Monographie des Spenophyllum d'Europe, 1864 - Monograph on Sphenophyllum of Europe.
- Description de la flore fossile du premier ètage du terrain crètacè du Hainaut, 1867 - Description of fossil flora from the first stage of the Cretaceous terrain in Hainaut.
