Heinrich Bernhard Oldenland

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Heinrich Bernhard Oldenland , also Henrik Bernard Oldenland (* 1663 in Lübeck , † 1697 in Cape Town ), was a German botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Oldenl. "

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Heinrich Bernhard Oldenland enrolled at the University of Leiden to study medicine in May 1686 . There he studied for three years with Paul Hermann , who also aroused his interest in botany .

As an employee of the Dutch East India Company , he traveled to the Dutch Cape Colony at the end of 1688 . In the first three months of 1689 he took part in a reconnaissance expedition that, under the direction of Ensign Isaq Schrijver, set out from Cape Town and penetrated deep into the eastern interior of the country. During this expedition he collected numerous new plants.

Oldenland became a free citizen of Cape Town, accepted a post as chief gardener and surveyor in the government in late 1692, and married the following year. With the support of the then governor Simon van der Stel , he and Jan Hartog (1663–1722) developed the company's garden into a place that was admired by many travelers. Under the name Company's Garden , it is still a well-known sight in Cape Town today.

Oldenland worked on a herbarium and catalog of the local flora. However, his untimely death in 1697 prevented the completion of the extensive task. The results of this work found their way into the works Caput bonae spei hodiernum (1719) by Peter Kolb and Thesaurus zeylanicus (1736) by Johannes Burman .

Dedication names

Charles Plumier named in his honor the genre Oldenlandia the plant family of the redness plants (Rubiaceae). Carl von Linné later took over this name. The genera Oldenlandiopsis Terrell & WHLewis and Thamnoldenlandia Groeninckx from the same Rubiaceae family are also named after him.

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literature

  • Mary Gunn, LEW Codd: Botanical Exploration Southern Africa: An Illustrated History of Early Botanical Literature on the Cape Flora . AA Balkema, 1981, ISBN 0-869-61129-1 .
  • EE Mossop (Ed.): Journals of the expeditions of the Honorable Ensigns Olof Bergh (1682 and 1683) and Isaq Schrijver (1689) . Van Riebeeck Society, 1st episode, number 12, Cape Town 1931.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 42.
  2. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 93.
  3. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 49.
  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 .

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personal data
SURNAME Oldenland, Heinrich Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oldenland, Henrik Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1663
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 1697
Place of death Cape Town