Patrick Browne

Patrick Browne (* around 1720 Woodstock , County Mayo , Ireland ; † August 29, 1790 Rushbrook , ibid) was an Irish physician and botanist from County Mayo. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " P.Browne ".

Patrick Browne lived with relatives in Antigua from 1737 , but returned to Europe for health reasons. He studied natural sciences, especially botany, at the University of Paris , then went to Leyden and was awarded a doctorate in medicine in 1747. He knew the botanist Jan Frederik Gronovius and corresponded with Carl von Linné . He practiced as a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital in London for two years before returning to the West Indies and settling in Jamaica . Among other things, he published the work The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica in 1756, in which names were introduced for 104 genera. In 1771 he returned to Ireland in County Mayo. His grave is in Crossboynem

Honors

After him the genera Brownaea Jacq. and Browneopsis Huber from the legume family (Fabaceae).

proof

Patrick Browne. Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco), archived from the original on March 11, 2007 ; accessed on April 18, 2009 (English).
E. Charles Nelson: Patrick Browne (ca. 1720-1790), Irish physician, historian and Caribbean botanist: A brief biography with an account of his lost medical dissertations . In: Huntia . Volume 11, Number 1, 2000, pp. 5-16.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1895. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
↑ Walker's Hibernain Magazine, 1795, Sec. II, pp 195-97.
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

Web links

Author entry and list of described plant names for Patrick Browne at the IPNI
Correspondence between Patrick Browne and Carl von Linné
Patrick Browne: The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. Botanicus Digital Library, 1756, accessed May 18, 2009 .

personal data
SURNAME	Browne, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Irish botanist and medic
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH	County Mayo
DATE OF DEATH	August 29, 1790

[Zander2008-1] Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1895. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7

[2] Walker's Hibernain Magazine, 1795, Sec. II, pp 195-97.

[Burkhardt2018-3] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]