Pieter van Oort

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Pieter van Oort (born October 10, 1804 in Utrecht , † September 2, 1834 in Padang on Sumatra ) was a Dutch painter and explorer .

Origin and work

Born as the son of the Dutch painter Hendrik van Oort (1775–1847) in Utrecht, he learned drawing and art painting from his father. In 1825 he became a member of the Natural History Commission of the Dutch East Indies (Dutch: Natuurkundige Commissie voor Nederlands-Indië ). A year later, he sailed to Java with the naturalists Heinrich Boie , Heinrich Christian Macklot and Salomon Müller , where he accompanied the members of the commission on their numerous expeditions. Initially, he traveled to the west of the island of Java (1826-1828), later the islands of Ambon , New Guinea , Timor (1828-1829) and finally the west coast of Sumatra (1833-1834), where he died of malaria in the area around Padang . Another source gives the date of death on September 24, 1834 . The cause of death is given as a biliary fever, of which Heinrich Boie also died on September 4, 1827 . Possibly a mix-up, especially since the event was already 30 years ago.

Merits

On July 22, 1831, he boarded with Macklot and the botanist Pieter Willem Korthals the 2,211-meter high volcano Gunung Salak in West Java. Korthals named the mistletoe Loranthus oortianus (Korthals, 1839) in his honor .

Works

Pieter van Oort & Salomon Müller: Aanteekeningen gehouden op eene reize over een gedeelte van het eiland Java in the aanvang van het jaar 1833 . In: Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen . Ter Lands Drukkerij, Batavia, 1836, 16: 83–156.

literature

  • Marius Jacob Sirks: Indian Natuuronderzoek . Academisch Proefschrift Ellerman, Harms & Co., Amsterdam, 1915, 303 pp.

Web links

Commons : Pieter van Oort  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Algemeene Konst- en Letter-Bode . Bij de Wed. Adriaan Loosjes Pz., Haarlem, 1835, Volume 1: 66-67.
  2. ↑ AJ van der Aa : Biographical woordenboek der Nederlanden . Ed. JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1867, 17: 141–142.
  3. ↑ Friedrich Junghuhn: Gunong Salak . In: Flora or general botanical newspaper . Eds. David Heinrich Hoppe & August Emanuel Fürnrohr, Regensburg, 1840, 23 (2): 449-460.
  4. ^ Pieter Willem Korthals: Negotiating over de op Java, Sumatra en Borneo verzamelde Loranthaceae . In: Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen . Ter Lands Drukkerij, Batavia, 1839, 17: 199–288.
personal data
SURNAME Oort, Pieter van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter and explorer
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1834
Place of death Padang in Sumatra