Anton August Bruijn

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Antonie Augustus Bruijn (Surabaya, 1865)

Anton (ie) August Bruijn (born on December 24, 1842 in Rotterdam , died on August 11, 1890 ) was a Dutch plumassier and trader in kind . As a trader, he supported the natural scientist Alfred Russel Wallace on his trip to the Moluccas .

biography

Anton August Bruijn was born in Rotterdam in 1842 as the sixth of eight children of Pieter Alidanus Bruijn (b 1799) and Henrietta Gabrielle Maris van Oordt (b 1804). His father was a shipbuilder and chief engineer for the Royal Navy of the Netherlands. Anton August Bruijn also joined the Navy at a young age and was deployed as a 3rd Class Navy Cadet in 1857. In 1861 he traveled to the Dutch East Indies for the first time , the forerunner of what is now Indonesia . In 1864 he was promoted to second class lieutenant and in 1865 he became the leader of the Sultanate of Ternate Guard . In 1867 he applied for exemption from the Navy for health reasons and on October 2 of that year he was honorably discharged.

As early as 1865, Bruijn Adolphine Susanna married Wilhelmina van Rennesse van Duivenbode and became the son-in-law of the Dutch trader Maarten Dirk van Renesse van Duivenbode , who was appointed commander and honorary major by the Dutch government on the island of Ternate . Together with his brother-in-law, Bruijn took over the natural produce trade on Ternate after his marriage and later discharge from the Navy.

As a natural produce dealer, Bruijn supplied, among others, Hermann Schlegel in Leiden and Tommaso Salvadori in Turin as well as the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris . In 1877 he organized an expedition to Vogelkop in New Guinea to carry out ethnological studies and collect animals, especially specimens of the western long-billed hedgehog ( Zaglossus bruijni ), later named after him .

Dedication names

Western long-billed hedgehog ( Zaglossus bruijni ), named after Anton August Bruijn

Bruijn has been honored by several scientists by naming newly discovered species because of his activities. 1876 were named after him while Western long-beaked echidna ( Zaglossus bruijni ) and the lowland mosaic tail rat ( Pogonomelomys bruijni ) as well Bruijn's forest dragon ( Hypsilurus bruijni ) by Wilhelm Peters and Giacomo Doria . Tommaso Salvadori named several bird species after Bruijn , including the red-breasted woodpecker parrot ( Micropsitta bruijnii ) in 1875, the wagtail ( Grallina bruijnii ) in 1876 and the Chalcopsitta bruijni in 1878, which is now a synonym for the black lory ( Chalcopsitta atra ) . The rufous-Paradieshopf ( Drepanornis bruijnii ) and the Brown Breast-Busch chicken ( Aepypodius bruijnii ) were in 1880 by Émile Oustalet described and 1894 described Johann Büttikofer the hybrids of the superb bird of paradise ( Ptiloris magnificus ) and the thread Hopfes ( Seleucidis melanoleucus ) as a separate species Craspedophora bruyni .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. JHU Press, 2011; o. S.
  2. ^ A b "Bruijn, AA" In: Bo Beolens, Michael Grayson, Michael Watkins: The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009; P. 60; ISBN 978-0-8018-9304-9 .
  3. ^ "Bruijn" In: Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson: The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014; o. S.

literature

  • CJ Heij: Biographical Notes of Antonie Augustus Bruijn (1842-1890) . IBP Press, Bogor, 2011. ISBN 978-979-493-294-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Bruijn, Anton August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruijn, Antonie August (full name); Bruijn, Anton August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch plumassier and natural produce dealer
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1890