Joachim Burser

Joachim Burser (different spelling: Joachim Burscher) (* around 1583 in Kamenz ; † August 28, 1639 in Sorø ) was a German doctor and pharmacist and professor of medicine and botany in Denmark.

Life

Joachim Burser was one of eleven sons of the Kamenz pharmacist Johannes Burser, a close friend of the botanist Johannes Franke , who was a city physician in Kamenz from 1581 to 1600 . He studied medicine and botany and became a student of the botanist Caspar Bauhin in Basel . Burser received his doctorate in 1614 from the University of Basel with a philosophical-medical treatise. Burser then undertook botanical journeys through Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Switzerland, northern Italy, southern France and the Pyrenees before he settled in Annaberg as a city doctor (Physikus) from 1615 . On September 2, 1617, Burser married Christina Seyffart, the daughter of the heir to Schönfeld, Jobst Seyffart, in Annaberg.

In 1625, Burser was appointed professor of medicine and botany at the Sorø Knight Academy . From 1631 until his death in 1639 Burser worked as a pharmacist.

Works

The Herbarium of Joachim Burser is one of the largest and best preserved collections of the first half of the 17th century. Some plants from this collection were also used as type specimens by Carl von Linné , among others , if they were not in his own herbarium. Some volumes were lost in the great fire in Uppsala in 1702 . The remainder was kept in the library of Uppsala University and handed over to the botanical museum located there in 1854.

Honor

The Austrian botanist Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin named the genus Bursera , the type genus of the balsam tree family (Burseraceae) , in honor of Burser .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Dietrich Hanspach (1995): The Kamenz botanist Joachim Burser and the plants listed in his Hortus siccus for Lausitz. Reports of the Natural Research Society of Upper Lusatia 4: Pages 39–53.
↑ Joachim Burser: Theoremata Miscellanea Philosophico-Medica, magnâ ex parte paradoxa. Joh. Jacob Genath, Basel 1614.
↑ Theodorus Albinus: Mysterium Coniugii Magnum. On the words of St. Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians on the 5th Cap. The secret is big / ... Georg Hoffmann, Freiberg 1617. (Sermon for the wedding)
↑ Evolutionsmuseet Uppsala (accessed December 8, 2017)
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-946292-10-4 . doi : 10.3372 / epolist2016 full text PDF.

personal data
SURNAME	Burser, Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Burscher, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pharmacist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	1583
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kamenz
DATE OF DEATH	August 28, 1639
Place of death	Soro

[Hanspach-1] Dietrich Hanspach (1995): The Kamenz botanist Joachim Burser and the plants listed in his Hortus siccus for Lausitz. Reports of the Natural Research Society of Upper Lusatia 4: Pages 39–53.

[2] Joachim Burser: Theoremata Miscellanea Philosophico-Medica, magnâ ex parte paradoxa. Joh. Jacob Genath, Basel 1614.

[3] Theodorus Albinus: Mysterium Coniugii Magnum. On the words of St. Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians on the 5th Cap. The secret is big / ... Georg Hoffmann, Freiberg 1617. (Sermon for the wedding)

[4] Evolutionsmuseet Uppsala (accessed December 8, 2017)

[5] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-946292-10-4 . doi : 10.3372 / epolist2016 full text PDF.