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Herlant, Léon
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Brussels, 1873 - Brussels - Watermael-Boitsfort, 1968
Activity
1895 - 1914 > Bruxelles
Léon Achille Émile, ° 3.9.1873; + 13.10.1968. Student in 1895. Doctor of medicine and pharmacology. Subsequently lecturer and then, from 1911, professor at the "Université libre de Bruxelles", and finally dean of the faculty of medicine, 1931-1933. Took the photomicrographs reproduced in collotype in the study by his father Achille Herlant, "Micrographie des poudres officinales", Brussels, 1896. Autochromist from at least May 1910. Exhibited autochromes (interiors and flowers) to fellow members of the ABP in March 1914. Not a member of the ABP from 1901 to end of 1907. Subsequently a member until at least 1922.
Léon Achille Émile, ° 3.9.1873; + 13.10.1968. Student in 1895. Doctor of medicine and pharmacology. Subsequently lecturer and then, from 1911, professor at the "Université libre de Bruxelles", and finally dean of the faculty of medicine, 1931-1933. Took the photomicrographs reproduced in collotype in the study by his father Achille Herlant, "Micrographie des poudres officinales", Brussels, 1896. Autochromist from at least May 1910. Exhibited autochromes (interiors and flowers) to fellow members of the ABP in March 1914. Not a member of the ABP from 1901 to end of 1907. Subsequently a member until at least 1922.
Locations
1895 - 1914 > Bruxelles
Exhibitions
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
VAN HOOF, Florent. "Belgian Autochromists. Léon Herlant", accessed on 27.2.2018, at:
http://autochromes.be/bio_herlant.htm
http://autochromes.be/bio_herlant.htm
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1895 - 1914
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#2157
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 15.5.2017, 27.2.2018 & 20.4.2018; SFJ revised 12.5.2019 & 12.4.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 1.7.2022, 30.1.2023, 1.2.2023, 5.5.2023 & 20.10.2023