Peter Claussen
Peter Clausen (approximately 1801–1872), often misspelt as Peter Claussen,L'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. He worked with Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert.[1][5][6]
Life
On account of fraud he emigrated to
Argentine's Cisplatine War with Brazil between 1825 and 1828, he served as a spy. Later he lived as a merchant in the province of Cachoeira do Campo, in the State of Minas Gerais, becoming the owner of a farm in the northerly neighborhood of Curvelo, some days' journey north of Lagoa Santa
.
On his great journey through the Brazilian countryside in 1833–35, he chanced to meet the Danish
botanist Ludwig Riedel in October 1834.[7] There he used the name "Pedro Claudio Dinamarquez",[3] and Lund stayed on Clausen farm 'Porteirinha' for about a week.[8] This meeting proved a turning point in both Lund's and Clausen's lives. On the farm were caves in the limestone hills, and these were exploited by the local people for fertilizer.[9]
Later visits to these caves by Lund uncovered numerous fossil remains. The study of these linked Lund forever to inland Brazil. For commercial reasons Clausen's acquaintance with Lund turned him into a natural history collector, both of plants and fossil animals.
In 1843 he accompanied
Francis de Castelnau on his South American expedition.[3] After returning to Europe he began to suffer from mental problems and so was taken to a hospital in Dartford, London, where he died in 1855.[3][1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Clausen, Pedro Cláudio Dinamarquez (Peter) (1801-1872)". JSTOR Global Plants. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- ^ a b Stafleu, F.A.; Cowan, R.S. (1976–1988), Taxonomic literature: A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Second Edition, Utrecht: Bohn, Scheltema and Holkema; Available online through Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- ^ ISBN 978-0-935868-91-3.
- ^ The International Plant Names Index, retrieved 3 May 2017
- ^ Urban, I. (1906) Flora Brasiliensis, 1(1): 12-13
- ^ Warming, E. (1880/1881) Botanisk Tidsskrift, 12: 125-126.
- ^ National Museet. "Lund's Brazilian Cave Studies". National Museum, Denmark. Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
- OCLC 3369772.
- ISBN 978-0-7099-3962-7.
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