Alphonse François Renard, Belgian geologist and photographer (born 1842)

Alphonse François Renard

Belgian geologist and petrographer

Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist and petrographer, was born at Ronse, in East Flanders, on 27 September 1842. He was educated for the church of Rome, and from 1866 to 1869 he was superintendent at the college de la Paix, Namur.