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{{Short description|Dutch biologist and Governor of Mauritius}}
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'''Isaac Johannes Lamotius''' (bapt. 29 May 1646 in [[Beverwijk]] – 1718)<ref name=NIAH>{{cite web|url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/361009 |title=Home Isaac Johannes Lamotius |website=Rkd.nl |access-date=2016-02-20}}</ref> or (1653–1710)<ref>{{cite web|date=9 February 2007|title=Les Planches inédites de Poissons et autres animaux marins de 'Indo-Ouest Pacifique. Isaac Johannes Lamotius (1646-c.1718) and his Paintings of Indo-West Pacific Fishes and Other Marine Animals|url=http://www.booknews.co.uk/Books/Book4511.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911010256/http://www.booknews.co.uk/Books/Book4511.html|archive-date=September 11, 2011|access-date=January 13, 2011}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last1=Holthuis|first1=Lipke Bijdeley|url=https://books.openedition.org/mnhn/4848?lang=en|title=Les Planches inédites de poissons et autres animaux marins de l'Indo-Ouest Pacifique d'Isaac Johannes Lamotius|last2=Pietsch|first2=Theodore Wells|publisher=Publications scientifiques du Muséum|year=2006|isbn=978-2-85653-901-9|location=Paris|oclc=1151533443}}</ref> was [[Governor of Dutch Mauritius|governor of Mauritius]] from 1677 to 1692. Lamotius was interested in arts and knowledge and became an [[Ichtyology|ichthyologist]]; he made 250 drawings of fishes which are kept in Paris.<ref name=":0" />
[[File:Mauritius 23.08.2009 11-42-31.jpg|thumb|260px|Mauritius]][[File:Melon2.jpg|thumb|260px|Melon]]
'''Isaac Johannes Lamotius''' (bapt. 29 May 1646 in [[Beverwijk]] - 1718)<ref name=NIAH>[http://www.rkd.nl/rkddb/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArtists&search=priref=361009 Lamotius, Isaac Johannes] at the Netherlands Institute for Art History.</ref> or (1653–1710) <ref>[http://www.booknews.co.uk/Books/Book4511.html ]{{dead link|date=February 2016}}</ref> was [[governor of Mauritius]] from 1677 to 1692. Lamotius was interested in arts and knowledge and became an [[Ichtyology|ichthyologist]]; he made 250 drawings of fishes which are kept in Paris.<ref>Holthuis, L. B., and T. W. Pietsch. 2006. Les Planches inédites de Poissons et autres Animaux marins de l'Indo-Ouest Pacifique d'Isaac Johannes Lamotius [Isaac Johannes Lamotius (1646-c. 1718) and His Paintings of Indo-Pacific Fishes and Other Marine Animals]. Christian Érard (editor), Publications Scientifiques du Muséum and Bibliothèque Centrale, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 292 pp., 93 color pls.</ref>


==Family background==
==Life==
Isaac was the son of '''Johannes Lamotius''', who played a main part in the capturing of [[Dutch Malacca]] (January 1641) and married in Batavia the widow of [[Matthijs Quast]]. As a [[sergeant major]] he was stationed in [[Dutch Formosa]] (September 1642-?).<ref>CORPUS DIPLOMATICUM NEERLANDO-INDIGUM. VERZAMELING van Politieke contracten en verdere Verdragen door de Nederlanders in het Oosten gesloten, van Privilegebrieven, aan hen verleend, enz.,</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Hendrik Hamel (1630&ndash;1692); B. Hoetink |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11467/11467-h/11467-h.htm |title=Verhaal van het vergaan van het jacht de Sperwer |publisher=Gutenberg.org |date= |accessdate=2016-02-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Spanish experience in Taiwan, 1626-1642: the Baroque ending of a Renaissance endeavor |publisher=Hong Kong University Press |author=Borao, José Eugenio |year=2010 |isbn=9789622090835 |jstor=j.ctt1xcrpk}}</ref> In 1653 Johannes lived in Beverwijk. <!--en werd geregistreerd als inzetbaar in de Eerste Hollands-Engelse Oorlog. Zijn vader Johannes Lamotius predikant in Den Haag was de laatste die Johan van Oldenbarneveldt in de ogen zag. Godefridus Lamotius, eveneens predikant zou een broer kunnen zijn Isaac-->
Isaac was the son of '''[[Johannes Lamotius]]''', who played a main part in the capturing of [[Dutch Malacca]] (January 1641) and married in Batavia the widow of [[Matthijs Quast]]. As a [[sergeant major]], Johannes was stationed in [[Dutch Formosa]] (September 1642–?).<ref>CORPUS DIPLOMATICUM NEERLANDO-INDIGUM. VERZAMELING van Politieke contracten en verdere Verdragen door de Nederlanders in het Oosten gesloten, van Privilegebrieven, aan hen verleend, enz.,


(eng)COLLECTION of Political Contracts and Further Treaties concluded by the Dutch in the East, of Privilege Letters granted to them, etc.,</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Hamel|first=Hendrik|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11467/11467-h/11467-h.htm|title=Verhaal van het vergaan van het jacht de Sperwer|last2=Hoetink|first2=Bernardus|publisher=Gutenberg.org|language=Dutch|access-date=2016-02-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Spanish experience in Taiwan, 1626-1642: the Baroque ending of a Renaissance endeavor |publisher=Hong Kong University Press |author=Borao, José Eugenio |year=2010 |isbn=9789622090835 |jstor=j.ctt1xcrpk|chapter=The Baroque Ending of a Renaissance Endeavour }}</ref> In 1653 Johannes Lamotius lived in [[Beverwijk]], Netherlands. <!--en werd geregistreerd als inzetbaar in de Eerste Hollands-Engelse Oorlog. Zijn vader Johannes Lamotius predikant in Den Haag was de laatste die Johan van Oldenbarneveldt in de ogen zag. Godefridus Lamotius, eveneens predikant zou een broer kunnen zijn Isaac-->
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Not much is known about the early life of his son Isaac. In September 1677 he arrived on the island. In 1682 [[Joan Huydecoper II]] strongly urged the colonial administrators to undertake botanical research and stimulated the production of drawings of plants on the spot. He gave him instructions how to start an [[herbarium]]. In 1685 Huydecoper requested subtropical plants. A [[cucumis]] arrived the year after in Amsterdam.<ref>Heniger, J. (1986) Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636--1691) and Hortus Malabaricus -- A contribution to the history of Dutch colonial botany, p. 63, 71, 161, 162.</ref> Lamotius became an expert on the fauna and fauna of Mauritius and published daily journals. In 1688 the last three [[dodo]]s were captured.


==Career==
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Some say his fifteen years of command saw the island descend into despotism and immorality was rife. When people complained in 1692, Lamotius and his second man were shipped to Batavia and tried in 1695, sentenced for private trade. He was banished for six years to the island of Rosengain, being chained on the most eastern of the [[Banda Islands]].
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Isaac arrived on the island in September 1677. In 1682 [[Joan Huydecoper II]] strongly urged the colonial administrators to undertake botanical research and stimulated the production of drawings of plants on the spot. He gave him instructions on how to start a [[herbarium]]. In 1685 Huydecoper requested subtropical plants. A [[cucumis]] arrived the year after in Amsterdam.<ref>Heniger, J. (1986) Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636--1691) and Hortus Malabaricus -- A contribution to the history of Dutch colonial botany, p. 63, 71, 161, 162.</ref> Lamotius became an expert on the fauna and fauna of Mauritius and published daily journals. In 1688 the last three [[dodo]]s were captured.

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Some say{{who|date=October 2021}} his fifteen years of command saw the island descend into despotism, and immorality was rife. When people complained in 1692, Lamotius and his second man were shipped to Batavia and tried in 1695, sentenced for private trade. He was banished for six years to the island of Rosengain, being chained on the most eastern of the [[Banda Islands]].


==References==
==References==
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==Sources==
==Further reading==
* [http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/E0260954108000697 The dodo and scientific fantasies: durable myths of a tough bird ]
* [http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/E0260954108000697 The dodo and scientific fantasies: durable myths of a tough bird ]
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*Allister Macmillan, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=_EusZwEdxpAC Mauritius illustrated: historical and descriptive, commercial and industrial facts, figures, and resources.]'', London: W.H. & L. Collingridge, 1914

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*Allister Macmillan, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=_EusZwEdxpAC Mauritius illustrated: historical and descriptive, commercial and industrial facts, figures, and resources.]'', London : W.H. & L. Collingridge, 1914


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Latest revision as of 19:19, 3 February 2024

Isaac Johannes Lamotius (bapt. 29 May 1646 in Beverwijk – 1718)[1] or (1653–1710)[2][3] was governor of Mauritius from 1677 to 1692. Lamotius was interested in arts and knowledge and became an ichthyologist; he made 250 drawings of fishes which are kept in Paris.[3]

Family background[edit]

Isaac was the son of Johannes Lamotius, who played a main part in the capturing of Dutch Malacca (January 1641) and married in Batavia the widow of Matthijs Quast. As a sergeant major, Johannes was stationed in Dutch Formosa (September 1642–?).[4][5][6] In 1653 Johannes Lamotius lived in Beverwijk, Netherlands.

Career[edit]

Isaac arrived on the island in September 1677. In 1682 Joan Huydecoper II strongly urged the colonial administrators to undertake botanical research and stimulated the production of drawings of plants on the spot. He gave him instructions on how to start a herbarium. In 1685 Huydecoper requested subtropical plants. A cucumis arrived the year after in Amsterdam.[7] Lamotius became an expert on the fauna and fauna of Mauritius and published daily journals. In 1688 the last three dodos were captured.

Some say[who?] his fifteen years of command saw the island descend into despotism, and immorality was rife. When people complained in 1692, Lamotius and his second man were shipped to Batavia and tried in 1695, sentenced for private trade. He was banished for six years to the island of Rosengain, being chained on the most eastern of the Banda Islands.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Home Isaac Johannes Lamotius". Rkd.nl. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  2. ^ "Les Planches inédites de Poissons et autres animaux marins de 'Indo-Ouest Pacifique. Isaac Johannes Lamotius (1646-c.1718) and his Paintings of Indo-West Pacific Fishes and Other Marine Animals". 9 February 2007. Archived from the original on September 11, 2011. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
  3. ^ a b Holthuis, Lipke Bijdeley; Pietsch, Theodore Wells (2006). Les Planches inédites de poissons et autres animaux marins de l'Indo-Ouest Pacifique d'Isaac Johannes Lamotius. Paris: Publications scientifiques du Muséum. ISBN 978-2-85653-901-9. OCLC 1151533443.
  4. ^ CORPUS DIPLOMATICUM NEERLANDO-INDIGUM. VERZAMELING van Politieke contracten en verdere Verdragen door de Nederlanders in het Oosten gesloten, van Privilegebrieven, aan hen verleend, enz., (eng)COLLECTION of Political Contracts and Further Treaties concluded by the Dutch in the East, of Privilege Letters granted to them, etc.,
  5. ^ Hamel, Hendrik; Hoetink, Bernardus. Verhaal van het vergaan van het jacht de Sperwer (in Dutch). Gutenberg.org. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  6. ^ Borao, José Eugenio (2010). "The Baroque Ending of a Renaissance Endeavour". The Spanish experience in Taiwan, 1626-1642: the Baroque ending of a Renaissance endeavor. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 9789622090835. JSTOR j.ctt1xcrpk.
  7. ^ Heniger, J. (1986) Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636--1691) and Hortus Malabaricus -- A contribution to the history of Dutch colonial botany, p. 63, 71, 161, 162.

Further reading[edit]

Preceded by Governor of Mauritius
1677–1692 		Succeeded by
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