> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 457](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189928) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8053-1) LSID 8053-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20012) QID Q20012 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Quételet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques \[Adolph Jacob\] (1796-1874), Belgian natural scientist; professor of mathematics at Brussels University; director of the Royal Belgian astronomical observatory; perpetual secretary of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium. **Abbreviated name**: *Quételet* \[standard form in IPNI: *Quételet*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Bibliography and biography Backer p. 479; Barnhart 3: 119 (b. 22 Feb 1796, d. 17 Feb 1874); BM 4: 1634; Herder p. 472 (index); Kew 4: 383; PH 364; PR ed. 1: 8279-8280; Rehder 5: 697. #### Biofile - Anon., Bonplandia 3: 33. 1855, 6: 50. 1858, 9: 12. 1861; Flora 57: 159, 320. 1874 (d.), 62: 404, 718. 1843; Funérailles de Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quételet, Bruxelles 1874. - Breure, A.S.H. & J.G. de Bruijn, eds., Levenswerken J.G.S. v. Breda 417. 1979. - Brien, P., *in* Florilège sciences en Belgique 43-68. s.d. (portr., biogr.). - Candolle, Alph. de, Ann. Rep. Smiths. Inst. 1875: 151, 164-165 (obit.). - Collard, A., Ciel et Terre 44(2): 60-74. 1928 (on Q. as mathematician), 44(5): 210-228. 1928 (biogr.), 44(9/10): 310-362. 1928 (biogr. ctd., 32 references to biogr. items, list of portraits), 45(2/3): 89-92. 1929 (on Q. as historian of science), 45(4/5): 127-145. 1929 (ctd), 45(10/11): 302-316. 1929. - Hankins, F.H., Adolphe Quételet as statistician 1968. 135 p. - Huxley, L., Life letters J.D. Hooker 1: 187. 1912. - Iltis, H., Life of Mendel ed. 2, p. 292, 296. 1966. - Jessen, K.F.W., Bot. Gegenw. Vorz. 354. 1884. - Mailly, Éd., Essai sur la vie et les ouvrages de Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quételet, *in* Ann. Acad. r. Sci. Belg. 41: 109-297. 1875 (biogr., portr.), also separately. Bruxelles 1875, 191 p. - Pelseneer, P., Ciel et Terre 44(3): 119-129. 1928 (portr., on his work for the Acad. Sci. Belg.). - Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-lit. Handw.-Buch 2: 552-553. 1863 (bibl.), 3: 1080. 1898 (bibl.), 6: 2101. 1938 (biogr. refs.). - Schmid, G., Goethe u.d. Naturw. 560 (no. 4239). 1900. - Taton, R., ed., Science in the 19th century 610 \[index\]. 1965. #### Eponymy *Queteletia* Blume (1859).