Frédéric-Louis Allamand

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Jean Frédérique (Frédéric) François Louis Allamand (* 1736 in Payerne , † 1803 in Leiden ) was a Swiss doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ F.Allam. ".

Live and act

Frédéric-Louis Allamand is the son of François-Benjamin Allamand and his wife Marie Madeleine de Treytorrens. In 1749 he moved to his uncle Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand (1716–1787), who was professor of philosophy in Leiden . In the same year he began to study literature. However, his interests changed and he received his doctorate in medicine in 1753.

From 1760 he was a ship's doctor in the Dutch navy and thus got a. a. to Suriname , Guyana and the Dutch West Indies . In 1770 he published an article on the history of West Indian syphilis in Nova Acta Leopoldina and described new plant genera that he had discovered in the Netherlands Antilles. At the end of the same year he sent a manuscript entitled Genera Plantarum Americanarum to Carl von Linné . Linnaeus was so enthusiastic about the material sent that he offered Allamand to name one of the new plant genera after him.

Later Allamand was a doctor at the court of Catherine II in Saint Petersburg and married Adriana van Guericke there around 1776. In 1793 he returned to Leiden.

Honor taxon

Gold trumpet ( Allamanda cathartica ) from the Allamanda genus named after Frédéric-Louis Allamand

Carl von Linné named the genus Allamanda of the dog poison family (Apocynaceae) in his honor .

Works

  • Dissertatio anatomico physiologica inauguralis, de externo tactus organo… Leiden, 1753 (dissertation)
  • Observatio XXIII. Historia Luis Indicae . In: Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino . Volume 4, Nuremberg, 1770, pp. 87-92 [1]
  • Observatio XXIV. Plantarum genera nova, aut accuratius observata, earumque species . In: Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino . Volume IV, 1770, pp. 93 ff.

literature

  • F. Markgraf, R. Steiger: F. Allamand and his botanical observations . In: Taxon . Volume 18, No. 4, August 1969, pp. 421-424
  • E. Schlunegger, KF Meyer, PC Boeren: Frederic-Louis Allamand, his family and the plant genus named after him . In: Isis Volume 66, No. 1, March 1975, pp. 86-91

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter of November 3, 1770 to Linnaeus
  2. ^ Answer from Linnaeus of November 29, 1770
  3. ↑ Carl von Linné: Mantissa Plantarum . 2nd edition, Stockholm, p. 214

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personal data
SURNAME Allamand, Frédéric-Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allamand, Frédéric; Allamand, Jean Frédérique François Louis; Allamand, Jean Frédéric François Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Payerne
DATE OF DEATH 1803
Place of death Suffer