Christiaan Hendrik Persoon

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Christiaan Hendrik Persoon
Born1 February 1761 (1761-02)
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Died16 November 1836 (1836-11-17) (aged 75)
Paris, France
Known forEstablishing starting points for fungal taxonomy
Scientific career
FieldsMycology, taxonomy
Author abbrev. (botany)Pers.

Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1 February 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a South African

mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy
.

Early life

Persoon was born in South Africa at the Cape of Good Hope, the third child of an immigrant Pomeranian father and Dutch mother.[1] His mother died soon after he was born; at the age of thirteen his father (who died a year later) sent him to Europe for his education.

Education

Initially studying

Halle, at age 22 (in 1784) Persoon switched to medicine at Leiden and Göttingen. He received a doctorate from the "Kaiserlich-Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher" in 1799.[2]

Later years

He moved to

House of Orange, in return for an adequate pension for life.[3]

Academic career

The origin of Persoon's botanical interest is unknown. The earliest of his works was Abbildungen der Schwämme (Illustrations of the fungi), published in three parts, in 1790, 1791, and 1793. In 1794, Persoon introduced the term

Gasteromycetes. Persoon described many polypore species; most were from his own collections in central Europe, while several other tropical species were sent to him from collections made by French botanist Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré during his circumglobal expedition. These latter fungi are among the first tropical polypores ever described.[5] In 1815, Persoon was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
.

Persoon was a prolific author of new fungal species, having formally described 2269 in his career.[6]

Recognition

The genus

CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre.[7]

The standard author abbreviation Pers. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[8]

See also

References

  • Duane Isely, One hundred and one botanists (Iowa State University Press, 1994), pp. 124–126.
  1. ^ Chater A.O., Brummitt, R.K. (1966). Subspecies in the works of Christiaan Hendrik Persoon. Taxon 15(4):143-8.
  2. ^ de Zeeuw, R. (1939). Notes on the life of Persoon. Mycologia 31(3): 369-70.
  3. ^ Petersen R.H. (1977). Some brief reflections on C.H. Persoon. Kew Bulletin 31(3):695-98.
  4. ^ Mitchell, M.E. (2014). "De Bary's legacy: the emergence of differing perspectives on lichen symbiosis" (PDF). Huntia. 15 (1): 5–22 [13].
  5. ^ Ryvarden, Leif (1973). "Type studies in the Polyporaceae–I. Tropical species described by C. H. Persoon". Persoonia. 7 (2): 305–312.
  6. doi:10.11646/megataxa.1.1.16
    .
  7. ^ "PERSOONIA - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi". Archived from the original on 24 February 2014.
  8. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Pers.

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