John Tradescant the Younger

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John Tradescant the Younger (born August 4, 1608 in Meopham , Kent , † April 22, 1662 in South Lambeth , now Vauxhall ) was an English gardener and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Trad. "

Live and act

John Tradescant the Younger was the son of John Tradescant the Elder . In 1637, 1642 and 1654 he toured the area of ​​the British colonies in Virginia , collecting plants there and bringing numerous new species back home with him, which were then cultivated in the family garden.

In 1638, after the death of his father, he took over his post as the chief gardener of the Queen's House palace gardens in Greenwich , where King Charles I of England resided. He held this office again under Charles II . In 1656, under the title Musaeum Tradescantianum, he published a catalog of the extensive natural history collection that his father had started and which he had contributed significantly to expanding. The collection was the first publicly accessible English cabinet of curiosities . It later fell to Elias Ashmole and formed the basis of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford .

The grave of John Tradescant the Younger is in the London Borough of Lambeth in the graveyard of the former church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, now the Garden Museum . He is buried here next to his father.

Honor taxa

Heinrich Bernhard Rupp named the genus of the three-masted flowers ( Tradescantia ) from the plant family of the Commelina plants (Commelinaceae) after the Tradescants . Carl von Linné later took over this name. The plant genus Tradescantella Small from the Commelinaceae family is also named after him.

reception

  • John Tradescant the Younger is the subject of the novel Der Herr der Rosen by Philippa Gregory , translated by Justine Hubert, Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7466-1956-4 (Original: Virgin Earth , HarperCollins Publishers, London 1999).

Fonts

  • Musaeum Tradescantianum or, A Collection of Rarities Preserved at South-Lambeth neer London . 1656

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literature

  • Charles Knight: Biography . London, 1856-1872. 7 volumes (The English Cyclopaedia. Division III)
  • W. Watson: Some account of the remains of John Tradescants garden at Lambeth . In: Philosophical Transactions . Volume 46, 1749, pp. 160-161 [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Tradescant. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Accessed March 5, 2019 .
  2. ^ English Heritage: List entry 1116214, Tomb of John Tradescant and his Family in St Mary's Churchyard, Lambeth Road , Online , accessed January 28, 2014.
  3. ^ Heinrich Bernhard Rupp: Flora Jenensis . Frankfurt 1726, p. 48
  4. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 94
  5. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 137
  6. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Tradescant, John the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English gardener and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1608
PLACE OF BIRTH Meopham , Kent
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1662
Place of death South Lambeth