Theodor Dorsten

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Theodor Dorsten (actually Theodor Gluntius, * 1492 or between 1500 and 1505 in Dorsten ; † 1552 ) was a German doctor and botanist .

Life

Theodor Dorsten wrote himself as “poor and little paying” in 1521 with the name “Theodericus Gluntz de Dorsten, gratis, nam famulus d [octo] ris Hermani Dorstensis , 1 nivensem bedellis” (Theodericus Gluntz from Dorsten, free of charge, namely the servant of the doctor Hermann from Dorsten, [gave] 1 Nivens den Pedellen ) at the University of Erfurt for a medical degree. After completing his master's degree , he was professor of medicine at the University of Marburg in 1531 under the rector Erhard Schnepf . In 1542 he was listed as Theodericus Gluntius Dorstenius as head of the pedagogue and university professor in Marburg and from 1548 seems to have settled as a doctor in Kassel .

After the death of Eucharius Rösslin the Younger , he revised his Kreutterbuch ... (1533) , translated it into Latin and re-published it in 1540 under the title Botanicon by Christian Egenolff in Frankfurt. Thanks to the work of Hieronymus Bock (1539) and Leonhart Fuchs (1542), the Botanicon was soon scientifically outdated. The Latin language prevented lay people from using it.

In his publications Theodor Dorsten mostly left his family name "Gluntz" unmentioned, so that the name "Theodor Dorsten" has become established in science. Theodor Dorsten had two sons, Philipp and Jacob Durstenius, who both studied at the University of Marburg. Nicolaus Theodoricus Cassellanus , who was matriculated at the same university in 1572, is a grandson of Dorsten after FWE Roth.

Honor taxon

Charles Plumier named the genus Dorstenia ( Dorstenia ) of the mulberry family (Moraceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name.

Fonts

  • Botanicon, continens herbarum, aliorumque simplicium, quorum usus in medicinis est, descriptiones, & iconas ad vivum effigiatas: ex praecipuis tam Grecis quam Latinis authoribus jam recens concinnatum. Additis etiam, quae neotericorum observationes & experientiae vel comprobarunt denuo, vel nuper invenerunt . Frankfurt 1540.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ FWE Roth: The botanists Eucharius Rösslin, Theodor Dorsten and Adam Lonicer 1526-1586. Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 19 (1902), issue 6, pp. 274–277.
  2. ↑ Historical Commission of the Province of Saxony (ed.): Historical Sources of the Province of Saxony , Volume 8: Acts of the Erfurt University . Halle 1884, p. 322 ( digitized )
  3. ^ FWE Roth. The botanists Eucharius Rösslin, Theodor Dorsten and Adam Lonicer 1526–1586. Zentralblatt für Bibliothekwesen, Volume 19 (1902), Issue 6, p. 276.
  4. ^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 29.
  5. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 92.
  6. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 50.
  7. ^ Theodor Dorsten. Botanicon 1540. Digitized

Web links

  • Scan of the Botanicon work in the Biblioteca Complutense
personal data
SURNAME Dorsten, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1492
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorsten
DATE OF DEATH 1552