Nicolaas Laurens Burman

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Illustration from Burman's Flora Indica .

Nicolaas Laurens Burman (born December 27, 1734 in Amsterdam , † September 11, 1793 there ) was a Dutch botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Burm.f. ".

Live and act

Nicolaas Laurens Burman was the son of the botanist Johannes Burman and his wife Adriana van Buuren. In 1751 he began his studies in Leiden , which he finished in 1759 with a thesis on the genus of geraniums . The following year he went to Uppsala to continue his studies with Carl von Linné . At the beginning of 1768 his most important work appeared with Flora Indica ; in the same year he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1769 he succeeded his father as professor at the "Atheneum" (a higher school) in Amsterdam .

Fonts

  • Specimen botanicum de geraniis, quod favente summo numine ex auctoritate magnifici rectoris, Jo. Nic. Seb. Allamand, ... nec non amplissimi senatus academici consensu, & nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoratus, ... eruditorum examini subjicit Nicolaus Laurentius Burmannus. Leiden 1759 - Dissertation under Kasimir Christoph Schmidel
  • Flora Indica: cui accedit series zoophytorum Indicorum, nec non prodromus florae Capensis. Haek et al., Leiden et al. 1768, doi : 10.5962 / bhl.title.60581 .
  • Flora Corsica. In: Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum. Volume 4, 1770, Appendix pp. 208-254 .
  • Pharmacopoea Amstelodamensis Nova. Dronsberg, Amsterdam 1792, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 2-30958 , (collaboration).

proof

  • Burman (Nicolaas Laurens). In: Jacques A. de Chalmot: Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden. Volume 5. Allart, Amsterdam 1799, pp. 157-161 .
  • Burman (Nicolaas Laurens). In: Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden. Bevattende levensbeschrijvingen van zoodanige people, who zich op eenigerlei wijze in ons vaderland made vermaard. Vol. 2, Part 4. Van Brederode, Haarlem 1855, pp. 1607-1609 .
  • Molhuysen : Burman (Nicolaas Laurens). In: Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . (NNBW). Volume 1. AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1911, Sp. 354, ( online ).

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personal data
SURNAME Burman, Nicolaas Laurens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch botanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1734
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1793
Place of death Amsterdam