Casimiro Gómez Ortega

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Casimiro Gómez Ortega (born March 4, 1741 in Añover de Tajo near Aranjuez , Toledo province , † August 30, 1818 in Madrid ) was a Spanish doctor , botanist , pharmacist and poet . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Ortega ".

Casimiro Gomez Ortega, bust

Life

Ortega studied in Madrid, Toledo and Barcelona, ​​financed by a maternal uncle (José Arcadio de Ortega), whom he also inherited. From 1758 to 1762 he continued his studies in Bologna, where he became a doctor of philosophy and medicine. Then he was a pharmacist in Madrid, where he also moved in literary circles. He corresponded with foreign scholars and was a member of many literary and learned societies. He wrote a poem of praise for Charles III's accession to the throne .

Ortega was from 1771 the first professor at the Royal Botanical Garden in Madrid, which he founded. The plans for this already existed under King Ferdinand VI. (who wanted to win Carl von Linné as leader) and they were under Karl III. implemented. In 1781 they moved to their current location in the Prado. To expand the collection, he also organized scientific expeditions to South and Central America. In 1801 he went into retirement.

Many first descriptions come from him, including the genera Echeandia ( agave family ), Maurandya ( plantain family ), Pascalia ( daisy family ) and Sesamoides ( Reseda family ). He also translated foreign works by botanists into Spanish, including Linné's Philosophia Botanica. In 1790 he published the works of the Spanish classic of the botany of South and Central America, Francisco Hernández de Toledo . He also translated John Byron's account of the circumnavigation , the London Pharmacopia (Madrid 1797) and books on agriculture (by Duhamel du Monceau and Gustav Adolf Gyllenborg ).

As a chemist, he published on the chemistry of the gas phase. He analyzed the healing waters of Trillo . He also published a lot on pharmacy.

In 1777 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society after visiting England in 1776. From 1776 he was a corresponding member of the Académie royale des sciences in Paris.

Honors

The Chilean tree genus Gomortega Ruiz & Pav. From the Gomortegaceae family is named in his honor.

Fonts

  • Pro Immaculata Dei Parentis Conceptione, Barcelona 1756
  • Tentamen poeticum seu laudibus Caroli III Hispan. Regis carmen 1759 (ten years later a Spanish edition was also published)
  • Cajetani Montii Philosophi & Medici Bononiensis, Botan & Hist. Nature. in Instituto Scientiarum Professor ... Oratio, Bologna 1762
  • De cicuta commentarius, Madrid, Ibarra, 1763 (and Spanish edition: Tratado de la naturaleza y virtudes de la cicuta, Bologna 1762)
  • Tabulae botanicae in quibus classes, sectiones et genere plantarum in Institutionibus Tournefortienis tradita signoptice exhibentur ..., Madrid, J. Ibarra, 1773, new edition 1783 (Latin and Spanish)
  • Instrucción sobre el modo más seguro y económico de transportar plantas vivas por mar y tierra a los países más distantes, Bologna 1779
  • Historia natural de la Malagueta o pimienta de Tabasco, Madrid, J. Ibarra, 1780.
  • Continuación de la flora de España o historia de las plantas de España que escribía don José Quer, ordenada, suplida y publicada, Madrid, J. Ibarra, 1784.
  • Elogio histórico de Don Joseph Quer, Madrid 1784
  • Caroli Linnaei botanicorum principis philosophia botánica, Madrid, Vda. e Hijo Pedro Marín, 1792.
  • with Antonio Palau Verdera: Curso elemenal de botánica teórico-práctico, Madrid, Imp. Real, 1785, 2nd edition Madrid, Vda. e hijo de Marín, 1795.
  • Novarum aut rariorum plantarum Horti Reg. Botan. Matrix. descriptionum decades, cum nunnullarum iconibus, Madrid, 1797
  • Carminum libri quatuor cum nunnullarum interpretatione Hispanica, Madrid 1817

literature

  • Rafael Roldán Guerrero: Diccionario biográfico y bibliográfico de autores farmacéuticos españoles, 4 volumes, Madrid, 1958–1976
  • Rafael Roldán Guerrero: Doctor Casimiro Gómez Ortega, Madrid, 1956.
  • John H. Harvey: Casimiro Gómez de Ortega, FRS (1740-1818): A Link between Spain and Britain, Garden History, Vol. 2, 1974, pp. 22-26
  • M. Colmeiro: a Botánica y los botánicos de la Península Hispano-lusitana. Estudios bibliográficos y biográficos, Madrid, M. Rivadeneyra, 1858
  • Quintin Chiarlone, Carlos Mallaina: Historia de la Farmacia, Madrid, M. Rivadeneyra, 1858, pp. 457-465

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Before that he was a little outside of Madrid in the Huerta de Migas Calientes
  2. ↑ published in 1777 (Memoria analítica de las aguas de Trillo) and 1778 (Tratado de las aguas termales de Trillo) in Bologna
  3. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter O. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 19, 2020 (French).
  4. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ortega, Casimiro Gómez
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ortega, Casimiro Gómez de; Ortega (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish botanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Añover de Tajo
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1818
Place of death Madrid