David de Gorter

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David de Gorter

David de Gorter (born April 30, 1717 in Enkhuizen , † April 3, 1783 in Zutphen ) was a Dutch medic and botanist. Its botanical author abbreviation is " Gorter ".

Live and act

The son of Johannes de Gorter completed a degree in medicine at the University of Harderwijk , graduated in 1734 with a De Aphorismi Hippocratis disputation and obtained a doctorate in philosophy in 1737 with the dissertation De necessitate physices in Medicina . Then he worked in the practice, where he continued his medical studies. In 1742 he became a lecturer in medicine in Harderwijk and was given an extraordinary professorship in botany the following year. During this time he met Carl von Linné , who had found a place of work in Harderwijk.

After he had given his inaugural lecture as an associate professor on July 1, he became a full professor of medicine and pharmacology in 1746 and rector of the alma mater in 1751. In 1754 he went to St. Petersburg with his father as the personal physician of Tsarina Elisabeth . Three years after his father left the court of the Russian tsars, severe gout pain forced him to return to Holland. So he arrived in his homeland in August 1761, where he settled in Wijk bij Duurstede . In 1778 he moved to Zutphen , where he finally died.

His widow Maria Elisabeth Schultz donated his herbarium with 2000 plants to the Harderwijk University, for which she received 100 ducats out of gratitude. This herbarium is now part of the National Herbarium of the Netherlands.

David de Gorter was a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg , the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and other academies and learned societies, such as the Leopoldina (since 1756). The plant genus Gorteria is named after him. He published Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov's work Flora Ingrica . The Dutch botanical journal Gorteria bears his name.

Works

  • Materia medica, exhibens virium medicamentorum simplicium catalogus, in tres libros divisa. Amsterdam 1740.
  • Flora Gelro-Zutphanica. Harderwijk 1745, 1757.
  • Orationes duae inaugurales de primo Aphorismo Hippocratis. o. O. o. D.
  • Flora Ingrica. Petrop. 1761.
  • Oratio funebris in obitum Gulielmi IV. Harderwijk 1752.
  • Flora Belgica. Leiden 1767, 1768, 1771.
  • Mededeeling over Jerem. XVII. 6 en XLVIII. 6; in dezelfde relation D. XV. Beschrijving van een bloem-horologie, in de Verh. Van het Bat. Gene. the proefonderv. wijsbeg. Rotterdam 1776.
  • Flora VII Provinciarum Belgii Foederati indigena. Haarlem 1781, Utrecht 1814.
  • Empty the plant customer. Amsterdam 1782, 1st vol.

literature

  • Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical woordenboek der Nederlanden, bevattende levensbeschrijvingen van zoodanige people, who zich op eenigerlei wijze in ons vaderland vermaard made. Volume 7, Verlag JJ Van Brederode, Haarlem 1862, p. 304. ( online , Dutch)
  • August Hirsch : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Volume 2, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna / Leipzig 1885, p. 606.
  • Jan Christiaan Kobus, Jhr. Willem George Hendrik de Rivecourt: Biographical woordenboek van Nederland. Volume 1, AEC van Someren, Zutphen 1870, p. 612. ( online , Dutch)
  • Er - Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Verlag Friedrich August Brockhaus, Leipzig 1862, 1st Sect., Part 74, p. 454.

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personal data
SURNAME Gorter, David de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch medic and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1717
PLACE OF BIRTH Enkhuizen
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1783
Place of death Zutphen