Catharina Helena Dörrien

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Catharina Helena Dörrien
Born1 March 1717
Hildesheim
Died8 June 1795
Dillenburg
Scientific career
FieldsBotany

Catharina Helena Dörrien (1 March 1717, in

Principality of Orange-Nassau in 1777.[3] She was also the first woman to name a fungal taxon.[4]

Early life

Dörrien was the daughter of Pastor Johann Jonas Dörrien and Lucia Catharina (née Schrader), and was the second of their four children.[4] The pastor educated his children at home, including in botany.[4] Dörrien took over the running of the family home after her mother died in 1733, but her father died four years later.[4]

Career

Dörrien left

Orange-Nassau.[4] Dörrien produced the catalogue in 1777, being one of the first Germans to use the Linnean system of classification.[4] In the catalogue she introduced two varieties, becoming the first woman to name a fungal taxon.[4]

Honours

Dörrien was an honorary member of numerous societies: honorary member of the Societatis Botanicae Florentinae (Botanical Society of Florence, from 1766), the Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (Berlin Society of Friends of Nature, from 1776), the first female member of the Berlinischen Gesellschaft (Berlin Society, from 1776) and the Botanischen Gesellschaft zu Regensburg (Regensburg Botanical Society, from 1790).[4]

Doerriena, a genus of

chickweeds is named after Dörrien.[4]

Publications

Dörrien CH (1770a). Von der Fragaria sterilis. Hannoverisches Magazin 8(35): 557–560.
Dörrien CH (1770b). Von den Wurzeln der Cuscuta. Hannoverisches Magazin8(56): 891–896.
Dörrien CH (1773). Erfahrung von verschiedenem Ungeziefer, welches den Salat verfolget, und den Mitteln dagegen. Dillenburgische Intelligenz-Nachrichten 5 June: 153–154.
Dörrien CH (1777) [as ‘1779’]. Verzeichniß und Beschreibung der sämtlichen in den Fürstlich Oranien-Naussauischen Landen wildwachsenden Gewächse. Bey Christian Gottfried Donatius, Lübeck, Germany. [TL-2 31.113, 2 editions]
Dörrien CH (1785). Nachrichten von Katharina Helena Dörrien, von ihr selbst erzählt, in einem Briefe an Herrn Professor Seybold. Magazin für Frauenzimmer 1785(4): 125–135.

References

  1. ISBN 9780226667379
    . Retrieved 31 July 2018. The one female member [of the Society of Nature-Researching Friends] of bourgeois origin was also the most celebrated German-speaking female naturalist of the period. Catharina Helena Dörrien was a gifted flower painter and author of a well-received flora of Nassau.
  2. ^ DeBakcsy, Dale (24 January 2018). "How 18th Century Botanist Catharina Helena Dorrien Created Girls' Science Education". Women You Should Know. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  3. ^ Geller-Grimm, Fritz. "Catharina Helena Dörrien (1717-1795)". Museum Wiesbaden Natural History State Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  4. ^
    PMID 29910514
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