(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

Born: 1865, Ettersbeek, Brussels, Belgium. Died: 1925, Houx-Yvoir, Belgium.

career:

Educated in the University of Brussels, took his Ph. Dr’s degree in 1894; Professor of Botany in the University of Brussels, besides Custodian of the ‘Jardin Botanique de l’Etat’ (1902 onwards). He travelled in Java and Sumatra, making a study of the tropical flora.¹

Pellionia massartianus Boerl. MS. was named after him.

Collecting localities:²

Sumatra West Coast: Padang (July 1894); Java (Aug. 1894-Febr. 1895), principally in W. Java: Buitenzorg, Tandjong Priok, Salak kloof (= gorge) (Aug. and Nov. 1894, March 1895); Tjibodas (5 weeks’ stay, c. Jan./Febr. 1895), G. Gedeh-Pangrango; Poentjak (Febr.) with Hallier; Garoet (Febr. 18), G. Papandajan, Kawah Manoek; in E. Java: P. Ketapang near Probolinggo (Aug. 1894); Sumatra West Coast: Padang (March 1895).

collections:

Herb. Brussels. Univ. [BRLU]. Some duplicates in Herb. Bog. [BO], and in Herb. Leiden [L]. Principally Algae, lichens, mosses and Fungi.³

literature:

(1) cf. Dammerman in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 45, 1935, p. 20.

(2) J. Massart: ‘Un botaniste en Malaisie’ (Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Beige 34, 1895, p. 151-343, pl. 3-10); ‘Notes javanaises: le jardin botanique de Buitenzorg; la journée d’un botaniste’ (Rev. Univ. Bruxelles 1, 1896, nos 1-2); ‘Les forêts vierges de Java’ (Les naturalistes belges 1920, p. 5-6).

(3) J. Carrot: ‘Contribution a la flore bryologique de Java. Mousses récoltées par M.J. Massart’ (Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. Suppl. 1, 1897, p. 1-31).

E. de Wildeman: ‘Observations sur les algues rapportées par M. Massart d’un voyage aux Indes néerlandaises’ (l.c. p. 32 seq., pl. 8-23).

N. Patouillard: ‘Enumération des champignons réecoltées à Java par M. Massart’ (l.c. p. 107-127, pl. 24-25).

A.M. Hué ‘Lichens récoltés par J. Massart’ (Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. 17, 1901, p. 171-194).

biographical data:

Transact.& Proc. Bot. Soc. Edinb. 29, 1926, p. 308; Bull. Soc. Roy. Belg. 59, 1926, p. 7-10, w. portr.; Backer, Verkl. Woordenb., 1936.

photo gallery:

E. Marchal, Bull. Soc. Roya. Bot. Belg. (1926) 7-10	Writing	Signature