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Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck (
May 3,
1809 –
July 16,
1887) was a
Belgian palaeontologist and
chemist, born at
Leuven.
He studied
medicine in the
university of his native town, and in 1831 he became assistant in the chemical schools. He pursued the study of
chemistry in
Paris,
Berlin and
Gießen, and was subsequently engaged in teaching the science at
Ghent and
Liège. In 1856 he was appointed professor of chemistry in the
Liège University, and he retained this post until the close of his life.
About the year 1835 he began to devote his leisure to the investigation of the Carboniferous fossils around Liège, and ultimately he became distinguished for his researches on the palaeontology of the
Palaeozoic rocks, and especially for his descriptions of the
molluscs,
brachiopods,
crustaceans and
crinoids of the
Carboniferous limestone of Belgium. In recognition of this work the
Wollaston medal was awarded to him in 1875 by the
Geological Society of London, and in 1876 he was appointed professor of palaeontology at
Liège.
He was awarded the
Clarke Medal by the
Royal Society of New South Wales in 1886.
Publications:
- Eléments de chimie inorganique (1839)
- Description des animaux fossiles qui se trouvent dans le terrain Carbonifère de Belgique (1842-1844, supp. 1851)
- Recherches sur les animaux fossiles (1847, 1873)
See Notice sur LG de Koninck, by E Dupont; Annuaire de l'Aced. roy. de Belgique (1891), with portrait and bibliography.
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