Emanuel Sweerts
Emanuel Sweerts (* around 1572 ; † 1606 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch plant dealer.
Live and act
Emanuel Sweerts, baptized in Zevenbergen in the Netherlands in 1572, married Margaretha van der Stein. One of his grandsons is the bookseller and poet Hieronymus Sweerts . Sweerts traded in bulbs and rare plants. He cultivated many of these plants in his well-known garden in Amsterdam. He traveled regularly to the fair in Frankfurt . There he had a shop opposite the Roman . Emperor Rudolf II tried in vain to win him over as head of his gardens in Prague.
His original trade catalog was the template for his work Florilegium amplissimum et selectissimum (1612). It shows 330 onions in the first part and 243 flowering plants in the second part. It is also provided with a multilingual index (Latin, Dutch, German and French). Numerous new editions such as 1614, 1620, 1631, 1647 and 1655 (all in Amsterdam) testify to the popularity of his work.
Carl von Linné named the genus Swertia of the gentian family (Gentianaceae) in his honor .
Fonts
- Florilegium amplissimum et selectissimum . Frankfurt am Main 1612.
proof
- ancestry
- Hieronymus Sweerts
- Wilfrid Blunt : The Art of Botanical Illustration: An Illustrated History . Dover Publications, New York 1994, ISBN 0-486-27265-6 , pp. 91 f . (English).
- Emanuel Sweerts to Emperor Rudolph II (December 7, 1604)
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 94.
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 101.
Web links
- Literature by and about Emanuel Sweerts in the catalog of the German National Library
- Portrait of Emanuel Sweerts
- Some of the illustrations
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sweerts, Emanuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch plant dealer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1572 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1606 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |