Georges de Layens

Georges de Layens
Born	(1834-01-06)6 January 1834 Lille, Nord
Died	23 October 1897(1897-10-23) (aged 63) Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Occupations	botanist apiculturalist
Known for	Creator of the Layens hive
Scientific career
Author abbrev. (botany)	Layens

Georges de Layens (January 6, 1834 in Lille - October 23, 1897 in Nice) was a French botanist and apiculturalist. He was the creator of a popular mobile beehive called the "Layens hive". The standard author abbreviation Layens is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

Layens was a member of the Académie des sciences. From 1869 to 1874, he lived in the Dauphiné Alps, where he established an apiary. Around 1877 he founded an apiary in Louye, Eure.

Published works

He wrote or co-wrote a number of works on beekeeping and botany. With Gaston Bonnier (1853–1922), he was co-author of a book on apiculture called "Cours complet d'apiculture" and a publication on plants of northern France and Belgium titled "Nouvelle flore du Nord de la France et de la Belgique". Other publications associated with Layens include:

• Elevage des abeilles: par les procédés modernes pratique et théorie, 1882 - Beekeeping: modern procedures, practice and theory.
• Les abeilles: pratique de leur culture: miel, cire, hydromel, 1885 - Bees: their culture: honey, wax, mead.
• Le rucher illustre, erreurs à éviter et conseils à suivre, 1900 - Apiary through illustrations, mistakes to avoid and tips to follow.
• "Notice sur Georges de Layens (1834-1897)" by Gaston Bonnier.

References

• Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the Spanish Wikipedia.

External links

• Apiculture Populaire Archived 2013-08-17 at the Wayback Machine article on the Layens hive.

This article about a French botanist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

• v
• t
• e

This bee-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

• v
• t
• e