Pieter Harting

Pieter Harting (born February 27, 1812 in Rotterdam , † December 3, 1885 in Amersfoort ) was a Dutch physician, geologist, hydrologist and botanist. Its botanical author abbreviation is " Harting ".

Life

Pieter was the son of tobacco merchant Dirk Harting (born June 13, 1788 in Rotterdam; † April 8, 1819 ibid) and his wife Janette Blijdesteijn (born March 13, 1788 in Utrecht; † January 2, 1859 ibid). He lost his father at the age of seven and his mother moved back to Utrecht. From a young age he showed an interest in science and chemistry. After being prepared by private tutors, he attended the school established by Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen in Elburg from 1823 and began studying medicine at the University of Utrecht on April 12, 1828 . Here he followed the lectures of Gerardus Johannes Mulder on chemistry, with Gerard Moll on natural history and those ofJacobus Ludovicus Conradus Schroeder van der Kolk on physiology and Jan Isaac Wolterbeek on medicine. He interrupted his academic training in 1830 for a year and went with the hunter company of the Utrecht students against Belgium. On November 28, 1835 he received his doctorate with the work Observationes choreae Sancti Viti, et febris puerperalis to the doctor of medicine and worked as a doctor in Oudewater .

In Oudewater he carried out various researches and published papers on his microscopic studies of plants in magazines. When he had also obtained his doctorate in gynecology on May 13, 1837 in Utrecht, he was appointed professor of botany, chemistry and medicine at the Atheneum in Franeker on October 19, 1841 . On December 6th he began his lectures and on June 22nd, 1842 he gave his introductory speech Oratio de microscopii usu nullis non naturae investigatoribus summopere commendo . When the Atheneum was closed in 1843, Harting found a new position as associate professor of pharmacy at the University of Utrecht, where he set up a microscopic laboratory. On January 21, 1846 he was appointed full professor of pharmacology and plant physiology, which office he took on March 26, 1846. In his capacity as a Utrecht university lecturer, he also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1858/59 .

Harting's interests were diverse. He dealt with physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, geology, paleontology and anthropology. He had also devoted himself with technical ingenuity to the improvement of various instruments that were important for his investigations. His work on improving the microscope is particularly noteworthy. He campaigned for the quality of drinking water and worked on a commission to develop a geological map of the Netherlands. Harting had also devoted himself to political issues. He wrote treatises on the plight of the working class, on popular education and supported the Boers in the Boer War. A liberal agnostic was a proponent of cremation, an opponent of spiritualism, alcoholism and a champion of Darwinism .

Harting was from 1849 to 1851 a corresponding and since 1855 a full member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences , a member of the Bataafsch Genootschap of the Proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte, became a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion and had received an honorary doctorate from the University of Leiden in 1875 . In 1864 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1874 he first described marine deposits from the Eem warm period of the most recent Upper Pleistocene. Under the pseudonym Dioskorides he also appeared as a science fiction author. He was the main editor of the popular science magazine Album der Natuur, in the South African province of Transval the town of Hartingsburg was named after him in 1882 (renamed Warmbad in 1903, now Bela-Bela (municipality) ) and the giant squid Architeuthis hartingii bears his name. In 1882 he retired from his professorship and moved to Amersfoort, where he died of a stroke.

family

Harting married on May 31, 1837 in Oudewater Catharina Susanna Goetzee (born April 1, 1815 in Schiedam; † November 24, 1888 in Groningen), the daughter of Paul Goetzee (born February 8, 1789 in Gorinchem; †?) And the Hester Adriana Hoekwater (born April 9, 1785 in Schiedam; †?). There are children from the marriage. We know of these:

Jeanette Harting (born June 13, 1838 in Oudewater) married. June 17, 1869 in Utrecht Cornelis Frans Adolf Knijff (* around 1840 in Leeuwarden)
Paulus Harting (born February 8, 1840 in Oudewater, † October 2, 1842 in Franeker)
Paul Harting (born January 22, 1843 in Franeker, † December 28, 1896 in Kampen) married. December 19, 1872 in Utrecht with Antonetta Gerardina Schuurman (born February 9, 1843 in Utrecht; † November 15, 1926 in The Hague)
Dirk Harting (born February 13, 1845 in Utrecht, † December 2, 1895 in Groningen) married. I with Augusta Chartolla Marianne Marterius; mated II. Jacoba Hermina van Lessen (born January 27, 1855 in Groningen; † April 19, 1935 ibid)
Hester Adriana Harting (born March 5, 1847 in Utrecht, † March 16, 1882 in Utrecht) married. January 19, 1871 in Utrecht with Willem Mallinckrodt (born October 28, 1844 in Driel (Gem. Heteren); † January 18, 1925 in Arnhem)
Catharina Susanna Harting (born May 16, 1850 in Utrecht, † August 7, 1854 in Utrecht)

Works (selection)

Harting's oeuvre encompasses around 200 individual treatises, a large number of which appeared in the academic journals of his time. Therefore only his separately published printed works should be mentioned here.

Diss. Medio practica, sistens observationes choreae S. Viti et fibris puerperalis. Utrecht 1835
Bijdrage tot de Anatomy of the Cacteen. 1842 ( online )
Concerning some points of the report of the commissie, burdened with de herziening the genious state regulation here te country. Utrecht 1842
Over de belangijkheid van microscopic onderzoekingen voor de Geneeskunde. Utrecht 1844
Over de ontwikkeling of the elementaire weefsels gedurende the groei van den eenjarigen dicotyledonian stalk. Utrecht 1845
Recherches microscopiques sur le développement des tissus et des organes du corps humain, précédées d'un examen des différentes méthodes micrométriques. Utrecht 1845
Onderzoekingen over de natuur en de oorzaken van de aardappelziekte in 1845. French translation: Recherches sur la nature et les causes de la maladie des pommes de terre en 1845. Amsterdam 1846 ( Online )
Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis of the microscopes in ons Vaderland. Utrecht 1846 ( online )
Het microscoop´, deszelfs gebruik, geschiedenis en tegenwoordigen toestand. Utrecht 1848-1858 5th vol. Utrecht 1850, 3rd vol. ( Online ), 5th vol. 1858 ( online ); German translated: The microscope. Theory, Uses, History and Present State of the same. 3rd vol., 2nd edition Braunschweig 1859 ( online ); 3rd edition Braunschweig 1866 ( 1st volume, online )
De magt van het Kleine. Utrecht 1849 ( online ), Amsterdam 1866 ( online ), Utrecht 1877
De geestrijke dranken en de onbeschaafde people. Utrecht 1848
De heer Jac. Moleschott, privaat-docent te Heidelberg en zijne verhouding tot de geneskundige faculteiten in Nederland established. Utrecht 1848
Microscopic voorwerpen uit both organic rijken. Tiel 1853
Monograph des marattincées, suivie de recherches sur l'anatomie, l'organogénie et l'hystiogénie du genre Angiopteris et de considérations sur la structure des fougéres en général. Leiden and Düsseldorf 1853, with Willem Hendrik de Vriese
Het Eiland Urk, zijn Bodem, Voortbrengselen en Bewoners. Utrecht 1853 ( online )
Sketches from nature. Leipzig 1854 1st volume ( online )
Handooek the vergelijkende ontleedkunde. Tiel 1854,
De voorwereldlijke scheppingen, vergeleken met de tegenwoordige. Tiel 1857 ( online ), was also translated into German: The pre-worldly creations compared to the present. Leipzig 1859 ( online )
De nieuwste verbeteringen van het mikroskoop en zijn gebruik, sedert 1850. Tiel 1857
Thought over het hooger onderwijs in ons vaderland. Tiel 1858 ( online )
Fell over the paalworm. Amsterdam 1860 ( online )
Le Képhalographe, nouvel instrument destiné à déterminer la figure et les dimensions du crâne et de la tête humaine. Utrecht 1861
Leerboek van de grondbeginselen der gekunde in haren geheelen omvang. Tiel 1862-1874, 5th vol., ( 1st vol., Online ) ( vol. 5 online ), was also translated into Spanish in shortened form
L'appareil épisternal des oiseaux. Utrecht 1864 ( online )
Notices zoologiques, anatomiques et histologiques, sur L'Orthragoriscus Ozodura. Amsterdam 1865 ( online )
De highest burgerpligt van den Nederlander. Utrecht 1866 ( online )
Christian Huygens in zijn leven en work done. Groningen 1868 ( online )
Anno 2065, a glik in de toekomst. Utrecht 1865, German translation: Anno 2066. Weimar 1866 ( online ) published again: Anno 2070: een blik in de toekomst. Utrecht 1870 ( online ), translated into English: Anno Domini 2071. London 1871 ( online )
Mémoire sur le genre potérion. Utrecht 1870 ( online )
De strijd des levens, talk, as hoogleeraar uitgesproken 26 Sept. 1870. Utrecht 1870
Roskamtonen: honderd rijmen by Dioscorides. Utrecht 1872 ( online )
Wetenschap en geloof, een ernstig woord, speech op de hoogeschool 25 en 26 Sept. 1876. Utrecht 1876

literature

Johan Christoffel Ramaer: HARTING (Dr. Pieter) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 9. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 322–325 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1933, reprinted unchanged).
WBS Boeles: Frieslands Hoogeschool en het Rijks Athenaeum te Franeker. A. Meijer, Leeuwarden 1889, 2nd volume, 2nd issue
Bert Theunissen: Een warm hart en een koel hoofd '. Pieter Halting over wetenschap, de natie en de vooruitgang. MGN, 110 (1995) afl. 4, 499-514 ( online )
Christophorus Henricus Didericus Buys Ballot : Levensbericht van Pieter Harting. In: Handelingen der algemeene vergadering van de Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde te Leiden, on June 16, 1887, in het gebouw van de Maatschappij tot Nut van 't Algemeen. EJ Brill, Leiden 1887, pp. 149-187 ( online )
Ambrosius Arnold Willem Hubrecht : Levens report P. Harting. In: Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Academie van Wetenschappen. Amsterdam 1888, pp. 1-60 ( online ) also in: De Gids. PN van Kampen & zoon, Amsterdam 1886, pp. 157–168 ( online )

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personal data
SURNAME	Harting, Pieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Harting (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch medic, geologist, hydrologist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 27, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH	December 3, 1885
Place of death	Amersfoort