Franz Kiggelaer
Franz Kiggelaer (baptized December 4, 1648 in Haarlem , † December 1722 in The Hague ) was a Dutch pharmacist and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Kiggel. "
Life
Franz Kiggelaer was baptized on December 4, 1648. He was the son of Jan Krijgelaer (Kiggelaer) from The Hague and his wife Isabelle Cruyshoeck from Delft. Kiggelaer was the manager of Simon van Beaumont's garden in Leiden. In 1690 he published under the title Horti Beaumontiani: Exoticarum Plantarum Catalogus ... a list of plants in this garden.
Together with Frederik Ruysch , he completed the first volume of Jan Commelin's Horti medici Amstelodamensis rariorum , which appeared in 1697. Kiggelaer was buried in The Hague on December 22nd, 1722.
Honor taxon
Carl von Linné named the genus Kiggelaria of the plant family Achariaceae in his honor .
Fonts
- Horti Beaumontiani: Exoticarum Plantarum Catalogus… The Hague 1690.
literature
- James Britten: Some Early Cape Botanists and Collectors . In: Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Botany . Volume 45, number 301, 1920, pp. 29-51 ( doi: 10.1111 / j.1095-8339.1920.tb00118.x , online ).
- WJ de Kock, DW Krüger (Ed.): Dictionary of South African Biography . Volume 3, 1977, ISBN 0624008495 , pp. 869-870.
- DO Wijnands (Ed.): The Botany of the Commelins . CRC, Rotterdam 1983, ISBN 90-61912-62-8 , pp. 210-211.
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Franz Kiggelaer at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 93.
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 483.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kiggelaer, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch pharmacist and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized December 4, 1648 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haarlem |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1722 |
| Place of death | The hague |