Willem Piso

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Portrait of Willem Piso, 1662, painted by Jan de Baen . Wassenaar, privately owned
Willem Piso and Georg Markgraf - From "Historia Naturalis Brasiliae" 1648

Willem Piso (actually Pies ; * 1611 in Leiden ; † November 26, 1678 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch doctor . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Piso ".

Life

At the age of 26, Piso took part as a personal physician in the eight-year expedition of Count Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen to Brazil (1637–1644). Count Johann Moritz had decided, as part of his assignment for the Dutch West India Company to manage the recently conquered colony in northeastern Brazil, to include various artists and scientists in his company to document and record information such as geography, landscapes, regional development, diseases , Medicinal plants, etc. In addition to Willem Piso, these also included the painter Albert Eckhout , the painter Frans Post , the painter and architect Pieter Post and the cartographer, botanist and astronomer Georg Marggraf , who had initially worked as a botanical assistant to Piso. Piso and Marggraf wrote the text on Brazilian natural history Historia Naturalis Brasiliae from 1648.

Willem Piso is considered to be one of the founders of modern tropical medicine. His remarks are the first detailed reports on the most common diseases, poisonous effects and medicinal plants in Brazil. Some of the plants mentioned are still used in medicine today, such as the ipecacuanha root and the jaborandi leaves.

Dedication names

Charles Plumier named the genus Pisonia of the family of miraculous flowers (Nyctaginaceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name. In addition, the plant genus Pisoniella and the animal genus Pison as well as numerous animal and plant species were named after Willem Piso. The specific epithets are: Pisonis, pisoniae, Pisonia, pisonioides, pisonifolia, neopisoniae and pisonopsis.

Fonts

  • De Indiae utriusque Re Naturali et Medica , facsimile edition corresponding to the first edition Amsterdam 1658 with contributions by Michael Herkenhoff, Eike Pies and Hans Schadewaldt , Verlag Dr. Eike Pies, Dommershausen-Sprockhövel 2008, ISBN 978-3-928441-63-6

swell

  • Eike Pies : Willem Piso (1611-1678). Founder of tropical medicine and personal physician to Count and later Prince Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen in Brazil and the Netherlands . Publishing house Dr. Eike Pies, Dommershausen-Sprockhövel 2004, ISBN 978-3-928441-55-1 .
  • Eike Pies: History of the Klevian Pies Family , Verlag Dr. Eike Pies, 6th improved and expanded edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-928441-11-7
  • Eike Pies (Ed.): Pisonia with contributions by Dorothea Elisabeth Benda, Norbert Josef Pies and Eike Pies, Verlag Dr. Eike Pies, 2010, ISBN 978-3-928441-71-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Truesdale (Ed.): History of Carcinology. Balkema, Rotterdam 1993, p. 22 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 7
  3. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 94
  4. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 474
  5. ↑ Norbert J. Pies: Pisonie, Paradiesnuß Mangrovenbaumkrabbe and Co. Willem Piso's taxonomic legacy . In Pisonia. Dommershausen / Sprockhövel 2010 pp. 119–255.

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personal data
SURNAME Piso, Willem
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pies, Willem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch doctor, formerly a tropical medicine
DATE OF BIRTH 1611
PLACE OF BIRTH Suffer
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1678
Place of death Amsterdam