Augustin Lippi

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Augustin Lippi (* 1678 in Paris , † November 10, 1705 in Sennar ) was a French doctor and botanist of Italian descent.

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Augustin Lippi was born in Paris in 1678. His parents came from the Italian town of Lucca . He studied medicine at the University of Paris and collected plants in Egypt .

In 1703 the French King Louis XIV planned to establish trade relations with the Kingdom of Ethiopia and to resume missionary activities. For this purpose, a delegation should travel to the Ethiopian Negus Iyasu I. The initially commissioned French consul in Cairo, Benoît de Maillet , shied away from the difficulties and dangers of the journey and, in turn, suggested the vice consul of Damiette Le Noir Du Roule (1665? -1705) to carry out the journey.

Despite the hostility towards the mission from the Jesuits , the Franciscans and the Coptic Patriarch , a small group, including Augustin Lippi, set out from Cairo on July 9, 1704.

The path led them along the Nile to the city of Asyut . On October 3rd, the group reached Selfma and thirteen days later they arrived in Moshi , where an extended stay was made.

At the end of May 1705 the delegation reached Sennar , located on the Blue Nile , in Badi III. ruled Sultanate of Sannar . Here the onward journey was delayed again and again. On November 10, 1705, the six-member group was attacked and murdered on a square in Sennar. Only one of the Europeans survived.

Dedication names

William Houstoun named the genus Lippia of the verbena family (Verbenaceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name.

Works

  • Quaestio Medica: An ab ovo conceptus hominis? Paris, 1698
  • Quaestio Medica: An cometa morborum proenuntius . Paris, 1699
  • Quaestio Medica: An scorbutus aegritudo nova . Paris, 1699

swell

  • Frédéric Cailliaud : Voyage à Meroë: au fleuve Blanc, au-delà de Fazoql dans le midi du royaume de Snnâr à Syouah tc . Paris (1823-27). Volume 2, pp. 303ff
  • Joseph Pitton de Tournefort : Institutiones rei herbariae . Volume 1, pp. XXVI-XXXVII
  • Jerónimo Lobo: Voyage historique d'Abissinie . Amsterdam, 1728
  • Paul Belouino: Dictionnaire général et complet des persécutions souffertes par l'Église catholique . 1851. p. 58
  • Haggai Erlich, Israel Gershoni (Editor): The Nile Histories, Cultures, Myths . London, 2000. ISBN 1555876722
  • EA Wallis Budge: The Egyptian Sudan: Its History and Monuments Part One . 2004. ISBN 1417977221
  • Umberto Quattrocchi: CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology . CRC Press Inc., 2000, p. 1507. ISBN 0849326761

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Date of death according to EA Wallis Budge: The Egyptian Sudan: Its History and Monuments Part One . 2004. ISBN 1417977221
  2. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica Leiden 1737, p. 93
  3. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 299
personal data
SURNAME Lippi, Augustin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1678
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1705
Place of death Sennar