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''
Written works
- "A revision of the South African species of Pavetta", 1929Sciaphyllum, genus novum Acanthacearum, 1940
- "Materials for a monograph of the Strobilanthinae ", 1944
- "Notes on the Acanthaceae of Java", 1948
- "A preliminary survey of the Ruelliinae of the Malay Archipelago and New Guinea", 1948
- "The African species of Oldenlandia L Sensu Hiern et K. Schumann", 1952
- "A revision of the Malaysian Nelsonieae ", 1955
- "The Thunbergia species of the Malesian area", 1955.
- "Remarks on the position, the delimitation and the subdivision of the Rubiaceae", 1966.