Paul Hermann (botanist)
Paul Hermann (30 June 1646, Halle – 29 January 1695, Leiden) was a German-born physician and botanist who for 15 years was director of the Hortus Botanicus Leiden.
Born in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Paul Hermann was the son of Johann Hermann, a well-known organist, and Maria Magdalena Röber, a clergyman's daughter. Hermann studied theology and medicine in Wittenberg and botany in Leipzig. After graduating from Europe's finest medical school, Padua in 1670, he was then engaged by the Dutch East India Company and went to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) as a Ship's Medical Officer.[1] He was in their employ from 1672 to 1677.[2] During his stay there, he made a scientific collection of this island's plants and other organisms. He was then offered the job at Leiden and took up the Chair of Botany at the University of Leiden in 1679 and took up his residence in 1680 at Leiden where he spent the rest of his professional life.[3] He immediately set to making it the finest botanical garden in Europe.
Hermann's Paradisus batavus, a description of the plants of the Leyden university botanical garden, was published three years after his death in 1698 and edited by
Works
- Cynosura materiae medicae : ante sedecim annos in lucem emissa, brevibusque annotatis exornata a Joh. Sigismundo Henningero, nunc diffusius explanata, et compositorum Medicamentorum Recensione aucta.... Argentorati : Beck, 1726 Digital edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf.
- Horti Academici Lugduno-Batavi Catalogus. 1687 (Internet Archive, BSB).
- Florae Lugduno-Batavae flores. 1690 (BSB).
- Hermann, Paul (1705) [1698]. Paradisus Batavus, Continens Plus centum Plantas affabre aere incisas & Descriptionibus illustratas; Cui Accessit Catalogus Plantarum, quas pro Tomis nondum editis, delineandas curaverat (2nd ed.). Leiden: Elzevier.
- Cynosura Materiae Medicae…. Spoor, Straßburg 1710 (online; edited by Johann Sigismund Henninger), (1726 edition at University and State Library Düsseldorf).
References
- ISBN 978-90-6191-681-9.
- OCLC 8591273.
- ^ "Hermann, Paul (1646-1695) on JSTOR". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Herm.
External links
- The Paul Hermann Herbarium, Natural History Museum includes biography