William Turner (naturalist)
William Turner (* around 1510 in Morpeth , Northumberland , † July 7, 1568 in London ) was an English doctor, clergyman and naturalist .
Life
His work Avium praecipuarum, quarum apud Plinium et Aristotelem mentio est, brevis et succincta historia ( Cologne , 1544) is the first printed book that is exclusively dedicated to birds . In it he describes not only the species that were already mentioned by Aristotle and Pliny , but also other species that he himself observed.
Turner studied at Pembroke College from 1526 to 1533. From 1540 he began many trips to what is now Italy. As a naturalist, Turner also dealt with botanical questions. From 1553 to 1558 he lived in Weißenburg in northern Alsace.
In 1903, Cambridge University Press published an appreciation for his work under the title Turner on Birds, a short and succinct history of the principal birds noted by Pliny and Aristotle . It contains its original text and the translation into modern English. Both this copy and the original can be found in the Hill Collection at Cornell University .
Honor taxon
Charles Plumier named the genus Turnera of the saffron mallow family (Turneraceae) in his honor . Carl von Linné later took over this name.
Individual evidence
- ^ William Turner: The names of herbes (AD 1548). Edited by James Britten , London 1881; Reprint Vaduz / Liechtenstein 1965 (= English Dialect Society , 34).
- ^ Charles Plumier: Nova Plantarum Americanarum Genera . Leiden 1703, p. 15
- ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 94
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 129
further reading
- Whitney RD Jones: Turner, William (1509 / 10-1568). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Turner, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British ornithologist and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1510 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morpeth |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1568 |
| Place of death | London |