Jacob Breyne

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Jakob Breyne , also Jacob (born January 14, 1637 in Danzig ; † January 25, 1697 ibid) was a Dutch- Danzig, Polish merchant and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Breyne ".

Life

Jakob Breyn is the son of his father Jakob Breyn and his wife Anna Moorman. Originally sent to Leiden for commercial training , he devoted himself more to his passion for botany . After his father's death in 1655, he had to return to Gdansk to continue his business. However, he found time to continue his botanical studies. In 1665 he married Sarah Rogge, the daughter of a mint master from Danzig.

In 1678 the work Exoticarum aliarumque minus cognitarum plantarum centuria prima was published , a treatise on 102 plant species, most of which come from the Cape of Good Hope . The continuation of his second botanical work Prodromi fasciculi rariorum plantarum ... was the responsibility of his son Johann Philipp Breyne .

Honors

Charles Plumier named the genus Breynia of the plant family Phyllanthaceae in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name.

Fonts (selection)

  • Exoticarum aliarumque minus cognitarum plantarum centuria prima… 1674–1678.
  • Prodromi fasciculi rariorum plantarum ... 1739.

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literature

  • Adolf Engler :  Breyn, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 326.
  • Mary Gunn, Enid du Plessis: The Flora capensis of Jakob and Johann Philipp Breyne . Brenthurst Press, 1978, ISBN 0-909079-07-2 .
  • JG Bujack: About Prussian naturalists of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Biographical and literary sketches. Jacob Breyn . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 23, Königsberg 1840, pp. 193-198.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fr. Jacobs , FA Ukert : Contributions to older literature: or, oddities. Fifth Issue, Dyk, 1838, p. 356, limited preview in Google book search.
  2. ↑ Jakob Breyne (1637–1697) on reformacja-pomorze.pl (Polish).
  3. ↑ Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, Andreas Weber, Huib J. Zuidervaart: Locations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts. Brill, 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-26487-8 , pp. 112-120, limited preview in Google Book Search.
  4. ^ Charles Plumier : Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 39 f.
  5. ^ Carl von Linné : Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 92.
  6. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 230.

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personal data
SURNAME Breyne, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1637
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1697
Place of death Danzig