John Parkinson

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Title page Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris .

John Parkinson (* 1567 in Nottinghamshire ? † August 1650 in London ) was an English doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " John Parkinson ".

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John Parkinson was the pharmacist of King James I. He lived on Ludgate Hill and owned a large plant garden in Long Acre on the outskirts of London .

When the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries was founded in December 1617 by order of James I , he was one of the founding members. From 1620 to 1621 he served the society as a warden . Parkinson was also one of the advisers of the Royal College of Physicians when their members compiled their Pharmacopoeia Londinensis (1618).

His first major work, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris , appeared in 1629. It is divided into the areas of flower, vegetable and orchard. It describes over 1000 plants and about 800 also depicts them. King Charles I awarded him the title Botanicus Regius Primarius for his achievement .

In the Theatrum Botanicum of 1640 he describes the medicinal properties of around 3800 plants. Its representation is based on the botanical nomenclature developed by Caspar Bauhin in Pinax .

Parkinson died in the summer of 1650 and was buried in the graveyard of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church on August 6th .

Honor taxon

Charles Plumier named the genus Parkinsonia of the legume family (Fabaceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name.

Fonts (selection)

  • Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, Or, A choise garden of all sorts of rarest flowers, with their nature, place of birth, time of flowring, names, and vertues to each plant, useful in physick, or admired for beauty . London 1629.
  • Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, to Herball of Large Extent . London 1640.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 25.
  2. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 94.
  3. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 179.
  4. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Parkinson, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1567
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: Nottinghamshire
DATE OF DEATH August 1650
Place of death London