Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede dead Draakenstein

Title page of the work Hortus Malabaricus

Hendrik Adriaan van Rheedes' mausoleum

Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede tot Draakenstein (* 1636 ; † December 15, 1691 off the coast of Bombay ) was governor of Cochin and author of the work Hortus Malabaricus .

Live and act

Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede was born in the province of Utrecht in 1636 to Ernst van Rheede and Elisabeth van Utenhove. In 1662 he joined the Dutch East India Company in which he quickly made a career. As early as November 1662 he was provisionally appointed captain. He took part in the conquest of Cochin (January 7, 1663) and Fort Cananoor (February 15, 1663) on the Malabar coast . In 1671 he was appointed commander of the Malabar Coast and in 1677 an extraordinary councilor.

Van Rheede was fascinated by the species-rich flora of the Malabar coast and collected a great deal of information about the native plants for 30 years. In 1678 he returned to the Netherlands for six years. In the same year the first part of the Hortus Malabaricus was published in Amsterdam . This first part is 110 pages long and contains 57 drawings showing over 300 plants and fruits. The work comprises a total of 12 volumes, which appeared gradually until 1703 and were edited by Jan Commelin .

In 1684 Van Rheede returned to India as General Commissioner via the Cape of Good Hope and Ceylon . He died during a voyage from Cochin to Surat on board the ship Drogterland off the coast of Bombay and was buried in Surat in January 1692; his elaborately designed tomb is located in the city's Dutch cemetery .

Honor taxon

Charles Plumier named the genus Vanrhedia of the Clusiaceae plant family in his honor . Carl von Linné changed this name to Rheedia . Also the plant genus Drakenstenia Neck. from the legume family (Fabaceae) is named after him.

Others

The congregation Drakenstein in the province of Western Cape in South Africa is named after him.

plant

Hortus Indicus Malabaricus: continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinas, Malabaricis, Arabicis, Brachmanum charactareibus hominibusque expressas… / adornatus per Henricum van Rheede, van Draakenstein,… et Johannem Casearium…; notis adauxit, & commentariis illustravit Arnoldus Syen… Amsterdam 1678–1703 ( online ).

Volume 1–2 ( digitized version - Internet Archive ); Volume 3–4 ( digitized version - Internet Archive ); Volumes 5-6 ( digitized version - Internet Archive ); Volumes 7–8 ( digitized version - Internet Archive ); Volume 9-10 ( digitized version - Internet Archive ); Volumes 11–12 ( digitized version - Internet Archive )

A review (1839) of the references to the Hortus Malabaricus ( Digitalisat - Internet Archive )

literature

MA van Rhede van der Kloot: De gouverneurs-generaal en commissarissen-generaal van Nederlandsch-Indië, 1610–1888 / historical-genealogical description by MA van Rhede van der Kloot. Met wapen-afbeeldingen by MJ Lion; uitg. met de ondersteuning van het Ministerie van Koloniën . Van Stockum, 1891.
Johann Christoph Adelung: General Scholar Lexicon: Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general Scholar Lexico, in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings . 7 volumes, Leipzig 1784–1897.
J. Heniger: Hendrik Adriaan van Reede tot Drakenstein (1636-1691) and Hortus Malabaricus: A contribution to the history of Dutch colonial botany . CRC Press, 1986, ISBN 906191681X .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 45.
^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 94.
↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 523.
↑ 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 .

personal data
SURNAME	Rheede tot Draakenstein, Hendrik Adriaan van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	1636
PLACE OF BIRTH	Utrecht Province
DATE OF DEATH	December 15, 1691
Place of death	off the coast of Bombay

[1] Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 45.

[2] Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 94.

[3] Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 523.

[Burkhardt_2018-4] 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 .