Paul Hermann (medic)
Paul Hermann (born June 30, 1646 in Halle (Saale) , † January 29, 1695 in Leiden ) was a German doctor and plant collector . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Herm. ".
Live and act
His father was an organist in the St. Ulrich Church and his mother was the daughter of the pastor of the church. Originally he was supposed to study theology, but he was interested in the plant world as a young child. In Wittenberg he began to study theology, which he broke off and switched to medicine. He studied for nine years in Leipzig , Jena , Leiden , Rome and Padua . In the local botanical garden he got to know various exotic plants. In 1670 he obtained a doctorate in medicine and philosophy at the University of Padua. In 1671 he continued his studies at Leiden Universityaway. The director of the botanical garden, Arnold Sijen , recommended Paul Hermann as a doctor for the United East India Company .
In 1672 he sailed for the United East India Company to Ceylon (today Sri Lanka ) and was supposed to heal the employees there from dysentery, malaria, flaking and smallpox. However, he collected plants there for befriended botanists in Europe. During his absence from Leiden he was represented there by Peter Hotton . Hermann returned in 1677; he was rewarded on November 21, 1678 with an appointment as professor of botany at the University of Leiden , where he headed the famous Hortus academicus founded by Carolus Clusius for the last 15 years of his life . In 1680 he made another trip to Ceylon. On April 10, 1686, he also received the professorship of practical medicine in Leiden and was rector of the university in 1691/92 . In 1717 his herbarium was published as the Musaeum Zeylanicum , Linnaeus referred to Hermann's findings in his Flora Zeylanica in 1747.
Honor taxon
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort named the genus Hermannia of the Mallow family (Malvaceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name.
Fonts (selection)
- Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi Catalogus. 1687 ( Google Books , BSB ).
- Florae Lugduno-Batavae flores. 1690 ( BSB ).
- Paradisus Batavus. 1698 ( BSB ).
- Cynosura Materiae Medicae… . Spoor, Strasbourg 1710 ( online ; edited by Johann Sigismund Henninger), ( digitized edition from 1726 of the University and State Library Düsseldorf ).
literature
- How dear is your name to the plants. In: Kej Hielscher, Renate Hücking: Plant hunters . In distant worlds in search of paradise. Piper, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-492-24163-2 , pp. 15-44.
- Hermann, Paull. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 12, Leipzig 1735, column 1708.
- August Hirsch , Ernst Julius Gurlt : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna, Leipzig, 1886, vol. 3, p. 171
- Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1867, vol. 8, part 1, p. 670 ( online )
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Paul Hermann (physician) at the IPNI
- Biography at nhm.ac.uk (engl.)
Individual evidence
- ^ Joseph Pitton de Tournefort : Institutiones rei herbariae . Paris, 1700, volume 1, p. 656
- ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica Leiden 1737, p. 93
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 327
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hermann, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician and plant collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1646 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 1695 |
| Place of death | Suffer |