Heinrich Christian Macklot

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Macklot's tombstone at Karawang

Heinrich Christian Macklot (born October 20, 1799 in Frankfurt am Main ; † May 12, 1832 in Purwakarta on Java ) was a German naturalist and zoologist .

Live and act

Macklot completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist from 1815 , studied natural history, pharmacy and medicine in Heidelberg from 1818 to 1822 and received his doctorate in 1822.

On February 26, 1822, through a recommendation from his friend Heinrich Boie , he was appointed curator of the osteological collection of the Natural History Museum in Leiden . On December 5, 1823 he was appointed by Coenraad Jacob Temminck together with Heinrich Boie and Salomon Müller to a research group ("Natuurkundige Cornmissie") of the Dutch East India Company, to which the draftsman Pieter van Oort also belonged. The departure for East India (now Indonesia ) was delayed until 1825. In June 1826 the group reached Java. Between 1828 and 1830 Macklot visited the islands of New Guinea and Timor on board the ship Triton , where he collected zoological and ethnological objects. In May 1831 he undertook a research expedition along the Javanese coasts. In 1832 he was stabbed with a lance during a bloody uprising by Chinese workers in Purwakarta in the Krawang district (Java). A few days earlier, all his scientific records and equipment had been destroyed in a fire set by the insurgents. However, Macklot's scientific collections were preserved and are now in the Museum Naturalis in Leiden.

Dedication names

The French zoologists André Marie Constant Duméril and Gabriel Bibron named the Timor water python as liasis mackloti . Temminck described in honor Macklots the flying fox Pteropus mackloti . The Dutch botanist Pieter Willem Korthals (1807–1892) dedicated the plant genus Macklottia to Macklot . However, the name is synonymous with Leptospermum .

literature

  • Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië, Vol. 60 (1901), p. 38. Jakarta.
  • Nederlandsch Kruidkundig Archief, Vol. 52 (1942), p. 396.
  • Wilhelm Stricker:  Macklot, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 17.

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personal data
SURNAME Macklot, Heinrich Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naturalist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1832
Place of death Purwakarta (Java)