Léon Becker
Belgian botanist, painter, naturalist and arachnologist
About Léon Becker
Lived 1826 – 1909 (aged 82–83). Léon Becker was a Belgian botanist, naturalist, arachnologist, painter and scientific illustrator.
Léon Becker (1826 – 27 January 1909) was a Belgian botanist, painter, naturalist, and arachnologist.
Biography 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. Between 1882 and 1896, he published four volumes entitled Les Arachnides de Belgique, which he illustrated himself. His lithographs are of very high quality.
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.
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Who was Léon Becker?
Belgian botanist, painter, naturalist and arachnologist (1826–1909)
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Léon Becker was born in 1826 in Brussels.
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Léon Becker died on 27 January 1909 in Brussels metropolitan area.
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Léon Becker was a botanist, naturalist, arachnologist, painter and scientific illustrator.
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Léon Becker was Belgian.
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