William Sherard
William Sherard ( February 27, 1659 - August 11, 1728 ) was an English botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Sherard ".
Live and act
Sherard was born in Bushby, Leicestershire and studied at St John's College, Oxford from 1677 to 1683. He studied botany from 1686 to 1688 in Paris with Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and was a student of Hermann Boerhaave in Leiden from 1688 to 1689. In 1690 he was in Ireland private tutor to the family of Sir Arthur Rawdon in Moira ( County Down ). He worked on John Ray's Stirpium , which appeared in 1694. He published Paul Hermann's Paradisus Batavus (1698). Around 1700 he began a continuation of Caspar Bauhin's Pinax botanici , which he did not complete. Since 1699 he was a corresponding member of the Académie royale des sciences . In 1720 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society .
From 1703 to 1716 Sherard was British consul in Smyrna ; during this time he got rich. On his return to England he became a sponsor of other naturalists, including Johann Jacob Dillen , Pier Antonio Micheli , Paolo Boccone and Mark Catesby . He also supported the publication of Sébastien Vaillants Botanicon parisiense (1727). At Oxford University he set up the chair of botany and bequeathed her his valuable library and herbarium.
William Sherard was the older brother of Jacob Sherard. Dillen's famous Hortus Elthamensis , often quoted by Carl von Linné , was a description of rare plants from Jacob Sherard's garden in Eltham (Kent, now Greater London). According to the title page and foreword of Dillen's work, William Sherard contributed greatly to the taxonomic part of the work.
Honor taxon
Johann Jacob Dillen named in his honor the genus Sherardia the plant family Rubiaceae (Rubiaceae). Carl von Linné later took over this name.
Individual evidence
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter S. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 1, 2020 (French).
- ^ Johann Jacob Dillen: Catalogus plantarum sponte circa Gissam nascentium . Frankfurt, 1719, panel III
- ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica Leiden 1737, p. 94
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 41
Web links
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for William Sherard at the IPNI
- Entry for Sherard, William (1659-1728) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sherard, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1659 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bushby, Leicestershire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 11, 1728 |