Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam
The Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is one of the oldest botanical gardens in the world. The garden, founded on November 12, 1683 as Hortus Medicus Amstelodamensis , is located at Plantage Middenlaan 2a, on the outskirts of downtown Amsterdam near the Artis Zoo in the Plantagebuurt . The garden is approximately 1.2 hectares and contains more than 6,000 tropical and native trees and plants.
history
The Amsterdam Mayor Joan Huydecoper van Maarsseveen II founded it together with the chemist and botanist Jan Commelin . Huydecoper, then President of the Dutch East India Company ; he had plants and germs sent to him from the overseas territories of Mauritius , Batavia , Ceylon , Bengal , Coromandel Peninsula and Suriname so that they could settle in the Botanical Garden.
The Hortus Botanicus , which was headed by Hugo de Vries between 1885 and 1918 , is associated with Botanic Gardens Conservation International , the Dutch Association of Botanical Gardens ( Nederlandse Vereniging van Botanische Tuinen ) and the National Plant Collection Foundation ( Stichting Nationale Plantencollectie ).
literature
- DO Wijnands, EJA Zevenhuizen, J. Heniger Een sieraad voor de stad: de Amsterdamse Hortus Botanicus: 1638-1993 . Amsterdam University Press (1994); ISBN 90-5356-048-3
- Ko van Gemert De Hortus: Een Wandeling door de Hortus Botanicus in de Amsterdamse Plantage . Fontaine Uitgevers (2006); ISBN 90-5956-153-8
See also
Web links
- Homepage (English version)
- Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam . In: holland.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ DO Wijnand's The Botany of the Commelins: A taxonomical, nomenclatural, and historical account of the plants depicted in the Moninckx Atlas and in the four books by Jan and Caspar Commelin on the plants in the Hortus gives an overview of the plants in the early Hortus Medicus Amstelodamensis, 1682-1710 Balkema: Rotterdam 1883
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 1 ″ N , 4 ° 54 ′ 29 ″ E