Maarten Houttuyn

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Maarten Willem Houttuyn (* 1720 in Hoorn ; † May 2, 1798 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch doctor and naturalist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Houtt. "

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Maarten Houttuyn was the son of the publisher Frans Houttuyn . He studied medicine in Leiden and received his doctorate there in 1749 with Dissertatio Spasmologica, Spasmorum Theoriam exhibens . In Hoorn he practiced as a doctor for some time until he moved to Amsterdam .

From 1761 to 1785 he published his 37-volume work Natuurlijke Historie of uitvoerige Beschrÿving der Dieren, Planten en Mineraalen, volgens het Samenstel van der Heer Linnaeus , which comprised about 22,000 pages and contained 296 copperplate engravings. The work was based on Carl von Linné's work Systema Naturae and influenced a number of similar works. At the end of March 1789 he sold his natural history collections.

Dedication names

The plant genus Houttuynia Thunb. from the family of the lizard tail plants (Saururaceae) has been named after him.

Fonts

  • Natuurlijke Historie of uitvoerige Beschrÿving der Dieren, Planten en Mineraalen, volgens het Samenstel van der Heer Linnaeus . 37 volumes, Amsterdam 1761–1785 ( doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.66921 ).
    • Deel 1, Stuk 1-18: Dieren . 1761–1773, 143 illustrations.
    • Deel 2, Stuk 1-14: Planten . 1773–1783, 105 illustrations.
    • Deel 3, Stuk 1-5: Minerals . 1780–1785, 48 illustrations.

swell

  • Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
  • Hans Peter Fuchs: Publication Dates of Houttuyn's "Translation" of Linnaeus' "Systema Naturae" . In: Taxon . Volume 11, Number 2, 1962, pp. 41-48, JSTOR 1217210 .

further reading

  • M. Boeseman, W. de Ligny: Martinus Houttuyn (1720-1798) and his contributions to the natural sciences, with emphasis on zoology . In: Journal Zoologische Verhandelingen . Volume 349, 2004, pp. 1-222, online

Individual evidence

  1. 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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