Biography

Dutch botanist from Dordrecht educated at the University of Utrecht, who lived and worked for several years in Indonesia and South Africa. During his professorship at Transvaal University in Pretoria from 1924 until 1931, he made a major study of the genus Pavetta L. and collected in northern Transvaal, Rhodesia, and Mozambique. For the remainder of his career he worked at the herbarium in Bilthoven, Netherlands, and specialised in the Rubiaceae and Acanthaceae. He is honoured in the genera Batopedina Verdc. (a Greek rendering of his name) and Bremekampia Sreem.