Johannes Jacobus Smith

Johannes Jacobus Smith , also Johann Jacob Smith (born July 29, 1867 in Antwerp , † January 14, 1947 in Oegstgeest ) was a gardener and botanist . After training in various horticultural companies, he went to Java , where he worked for many years at the Buitenzorg Botanical Garden . One focus of his research was the family of orchids . Its botanical author abbreviation is “ JJSm. ".

Life

Johannes Jacobus Smith was born in Antwerp , Belgium, in 1867 and grew up in Amsterdam . At the suggestion of his teacher JC Costerus, he trained as a gardener at the Groenewegen nursery. Further professional positions were one year in the Kew Gardens in London and two years in Brussels , first in the orchid nursery Linden, then in the botanical garden.

Again it was Costerus who suggested that Smith take up employment in the East Indian colonies. From 1891 he was responsible for a coffee plantation there, but was more interested in the species-rich jungle in the area and soon accepted an invitation from Melchior Treub to move to the Buitenzorg botanical garden . There he advanced from assistant to the curator to employee and later head of the herbarium, and finally from 1922 to director of the botanical garden. During his work, he undertook numerous field studies and trips to the Indonesian islands. He published in particular on the orchid flora and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Utrecht in 1910 for his scientific achievements . After retiring due to illness and returning to the Netherlands, he kept in close contact with the herbaria in Utrecht and Leiden , and numerous writings were created during this time. His greenhouse housed numerous tropical orchids, but the collection was lost in World War II due to a lack of heating material. Smith died in 1947 at the age of eighty.

Works

• The botanical garden 's Lands plantentuin at Buitenzorg on Java . Leipzig 1893.
• The orchids of Dutch New Guinea . Brill, Leiden 1903-1920. (Reprint: Australian Orchid Foundation, Essendon 1990)
• The orchids of Ambon . Landsdrukkerij, Batavia 1905. (Reprint: Kessinger, Belle Fourche 2009)
• The orchids of Java . Brill, Leiden 1905-14. (Seven volumes, reprint: Kessinger, Belle Fourche 2009)
• The orchids of Java. Figures - Atlas . Brill, Leiden 1908-1909.
• Preliminary descriptions of new Papuan orchids. I, II Buitenzorg 1908-1911.
• SH Koorders , JJ Smith: Ericacea - Gentianaceae - Corsiaceae - Polygalaceae . Leiden 1912.
• SH Koorders, Th. Valeton , JJ Smith: Bijdrage no. 1 [-13] tot de kennis der boomsoorten op Java. Additamenta ad cognitionem Florae javanicae… . G. Kolff, Batavia & 's-Gravenhage 1894–1914. 13 volumes.
• Geïllustreerde gids voor "'s Lands Plantentuin" te Buitenzorg . Departement van landbouw, nijverheid en handel, Batavia around 1915.
• Orchidaceae novae Malayenses . Volume VIII. Buitenzorg 1917.
• JJ Smith et al .: Lands Plantentuin Buitenzorg. Commemorative document of the lieheid van het honderdjarig bestaan ​​op 18 mei 1917. Eerste honored . Buitenzorg 1917.
• Aanteekeningen over orchideeën . o. O. 1920.
• Wandelgids voor 's Lands plantentuin te Buitenzorg . Buitenzorg 1924.
• The Orchidaceae of Dr. W. Kaudern's expedition to Selebes . o. O. 1926.
• E. Irmscher , H. Winkler , JJ Smith: Contributions to the knowledge of the flora of Borneo . Institute for General Botany, Hamburg 1927–1928.
• Icones orchidacearum Malayensium . 's Lands Plantentuin, Buitenzorg 1930–1949.
• Enumeration of the Orchidaceae of Sumatra and neighboring islands . Dahlem near Berlin 1933.
• New orchids of Papuaia . In: Engler's Botanical Yearbooks , 1934. (Reprinted by Australian Orchid Foundation, Essendon 1984)
• Contributions to the knowledge of the saprophytes of Java. XII-XIV: Burmannia tuberosa Becc.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Merle A. Reinikka: A History of the Orchid . Timber Pess, Portland 1995, ISBN 0-88192-325-7 , pp. 290-292 .

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Johannes Jacobus Smith at the IPNI