Peter Hotton
Peter Hotton (born June 18, 1648 in Amsterdam , † January 10, 1709 in Leiden ) was a Dutch medic and botanist .
Life
Peter Hotton came from a family who had come to Holland from France , his father was the pastor of the Reformed Church Gottfried Hotton (1596–1656). Hotton completed his medical studies in Leiden in 1665 and received his doctorate there in 1672. The title of his doctoral thesis was Positiones quaedam medicae .
After graduation, Hotton turned to botany and went on a study trip to Denmark . He then returned to Leiden, where he represented the botany professor Paul Hermann from 1672 to 1678 while he worked in Java and Ceylon . After Hermann's return, Hotton became a botanist at the Amsterdam Hortus Medicus in January 1692 . When Hermann died in 1695, Hotton was given the Leiden Chair of Botany in Leiden and held it until his death in 1709.
Hotton had started the task on May 9, 1695 with the introductory speech Sermo academicus quo rei herbariae historia et fata adumbrantur . As a botanist, he was primarily interested in taxonomy. His student Hermann Boerhaave published his botanical system in the work Historia brevis an Hottonia in 1719 .
As a botanist he was in contact with Tilli and Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. Hotton became a member of the Royal Society in London and on March 31, 1701 with the nickname Cratevas I. Member ( matriculation no. 246 ) of the Leopoldina . On March 4, 1699 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
Hotton's book collection of 4,000 volumes was auctioned after his death in 1709, for which Johan van der Linden created a catalog. After his death the work Thesaurus phytologicus was published posthumously .
Honor taxon
His successor, the botany professor Hermann Boerhaave , named the water feather plant genus as Hottonia in his honor . This name was also adopted by Carl von Linné .
literature
- Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Biography médicale. Vol. 5 Paris, 1822.
- Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 202 digitized
Web links
- Member entry of Petrus Hotton at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 26, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ (Leiden 1695, online )
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter H. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 13, 2020 (French).
- ↑ (Nuremberg 1738, ( online ))
- ^ Hermann Boerhaave: Index Alter Plantarum . Leiden 1720, Volume 1, pp. 206f.
- ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 93
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 64
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hotton, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hotton, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch medic and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1648 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 1709 |
| Place of death | Suffer |