José Correia da Serra

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José Correia da Serra

José Francisco Correia da Serra , also Corrêa da Serra, (born June 6, 1750 in Serpa , † September 11, 1823 in Caldas da Rainha ) was a Portuguese clergyman, scholar, diplomat and botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Corrêa ".

Live and act

Correia da Serra studied theology in Rome and was ordained a priest there. From 1777 he was in Lisbon, where he was under the patronage of the Duke of Alafoés, the uncle of Maria I , and in 1779 was one of the founders of the Academy of Sciences. He was the permanent secretary of the academy and was allowed to publish its negotiations without censorship, which brought him into conflict with the church. For political reasons he fled to France in 1786, returned after the death of Peter III. again, but soon afterwards went again for political reasons (he had given a French Girondist shelter in the palace of the Duke of Alafoés) out of the country to London. Here he was promoted by Sir Joseph Banks and accepted into the Royal Society . In 1797 he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and in the same year Secretary of the Portuguese Embassy in London. After a dispute with the ambassador, he went to Paris in 1802. In 1813 he went to New York and also met Thomas Jefferson at his Monticello estate . In 1815 he became a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and external member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1816 he became Portuguese ambassador in Washington DC. In 1820 he went back to Portugal, where he was on the Finance Council and a member of the Cortes .

He was the editor of documents on Portuguese history (Colecção de livros inéditos da história Portuguesa, 4 volumes, 1790 to 1816).

Honors

Correia da Serra was the first to describe the Bengali quince ( Aegle marmelos ) and the genus Correa from the diamond family (Rutaceae) is named in his honor.

literature

  • Edgardo Medeiros Silva: The powerless diplomacy of the Abbé Correia da Serra, Revista Anglo-Saxonica 2010, pdf
  • Léon Bourdon: José Corrêa da Serra - Ambassadeur du Royaume-Uni de Portugal et Brésil a Washington, 1816-1820. Paris: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1975.
  • Richard Beale Davis: The Abbé Corrêa in America, 1812-1820 - The Contributions of the Diplomat and Natural Philosopher to the Foundations of Our National Life. Preface by Gordon S. Brown and afterword by Léon Bourdon. Providence, Rhode Island: Gávea-Brown, 1993.
  • Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro, Ana Simoes: The Portuguese naturalist Correia da Serra (1751-1823) and his impact on early nineteenth-century botany, Journal of the History of Biology, Volume 34, 2001, pp. 353-393.
  • Julio Henriques: Correia da Serra: apontamentos biográficos e correspondencia, Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade, 1923
  • Augusto da Silva Carvalho: O Abade Correia da Serra, Lisboa: Academia das Ciências, 1948

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 61.
  2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Correia da Serra, José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Correia da Serra, José Francisco (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese clergyman, scholar, diplomat and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1750
PLACE OF BIRTH Serpa
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1823
Place of death Caldas da Rainha