 From 1835 to 1863 he was a professor of chemistry at the Catholic University of Louvain.With Henri Guillaume Galeotti (1814-1858), he was the binomial author of many botanical species.In 1842, with Galeotti, he published an important treatise on ferns of Mexico titled "Memoire sur les Fougères du Mexique, et considérations sur la géographie botanique de cette contrée".