Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp


Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp was a Dutch botanist.
He received his education at the University of Utrecht, and performed as a botanical researcher in Indonesia and South Africa. In South Africa he collaborated with German botanist Herold Georg Wilhelm Johannes Schweickerdt.
From 1924 to 1931 he was a professor at Transvaal University in Pretoria, where he conducted studies of the genus Pavetta. During this time period he collected plants from northern Transvaal, Rhodesia, and Mozambique. A portion of his career was spent at the herbarium in Utrecht, where he specialized in studies of Rubiaceae and Acanthaceae.
Bremekamp was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1949.
Eponymy
Bremekampia
Batopedina
''Toddaliopsis bremekampii''

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