Paul Émile de Puydt
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Paul Émile de Puydt (Born in Mons, Belgium, 1810 - Died in Mons, 1891) was a many-talented character. He published a lot as a botanist, as an economist and as a writer.
As a botanist, he notably wrote on orchids. The standard botanical author abbreviation De Puydt is applied to species he described.
As a political economist, he is known as the inventor of panarchy.