Jean Linden
Jean Jules Linden (born February 3, 1817 in Luxembourg City , † January 12, 1898 in Brussels ) was a Luxembourg-Belgian botanist . He is considered one of the “fathers” of orchid research.
Life
Jean Linden studied in Brussels and in 1835, at the age of 19, was sent on an expedition by the Belgian government on which he toured the countries of Central and South America . At times he traveled with the famous researcher Alexander von Humboldt . During the three trips, together for about 10 years, he sent a number of previously unknown plants to Europe.
After the end of his travel activities (1845) he first returned to Luxembourg. In 1851, however, he returned to Brussels, where he founded the company L'Horticole Coloniale . He had greenhouses built in Ghent and Brussels in order to be able to cultivate and breed the particularly sensitive tropical species. His collection of orchids created in this way became world famous. He sold orchids all over Europe, right up to the court of the Russian tsars . One orchid variety bears his name today: Lindensis . Together with his son Lucien , he was the author of a richly illustrated book on orchids, which had long been a standard work. Among other things, he put the well-known collection of Jean-Pierre Pescatore on his castle of La Celle-Saint-Cloud .
From 1851 to 1861 he was director of the zoological and botanical garden of Brussels Parc Léopold , where a monument still commemorates him today.
The Promenade des Anglais in Nice was laid out with palm trees from his cultivation. For a while, Jean Linden was also Consul General of Luxembourg in the USA .
Jean Linden died in Brussels at the age of 80.
Honor taxa
The genus Lindenia Benth was named in his honor . from the plant family Rubiaceae (Rubiaceae), the genus Lindeniopiper Trel. from the family of the pepper plants (Piperaceae) and Neolindenia Baill. named from the acanthus family (Acanthaceae).
Fonts
- L'Illustration Horticole, Journal spécial des Serres et des Jardins , Gent-Brussels 1854–1884 (Edited together with Charles Lemaire and Ambroise Verschaffelt. Reprints 1868–1896; lithographs by: Alfred Goosens, P. De Pannemaeker and J. Goffart).
- Pescatorea - Iconographie des Orchidées, 1854-1860 , Brussels 1860 (Reprint: Naturalia Publications, Turriers, 1994, 155 p.)
- Lindenia - Iconographie des Orchidées , 17 volumes, Brussels, 1885-1906 (under the sole direction of Jean Linden from 1885 to 1896, then under the direction of his son Lucien Linden).
literature
- Eduard Regel : Jean Linden +, in: Gartenflora 47 (1898) , pp. 171–177
- À la mémoire de J. Linden, in: La Semaine horticole 2 (1898) , pp. 61-88
- Nicole Ceulemans (avec la collaboration de G. Braem et Ronnie Viane): Jean Linden, explorateur, père des orchidées . Bruxelles: Fonds Mercator, Esch-sur-Alzette: Editions Schortgen, 2006, 239 pp. ISBN 90-6153-630-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Linden, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Linden, Jean Jules (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Luxembourg-Belgian botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luxembourg City |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1898 |
| Place of death | Brussels |