(Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors)

Born: 1835, Zutphen, Gld, Holland. Died: 1910, Baarn, U., Holland.

career:

Was appointed Military Pharmacist at Batavia (W. Java) in 1855; he resigned in 1857 and was since in several functions at Buitenzorg; in 1864 Leader of the Cinchona Culture and in 1875 Chief Inspector of the Rice and Sugar Culture etc.¹ In 1878 he went on European leave and was subsequently pensioned off.

He was a zealous promoter of the interests of Indonesian agriculture; he took his honorary degree in pharmacy at Utrecht in 1886.

Collecting localities:

W. Java (about 1869-71); Malabar, Tjinjiroean, Kendang.

collections:

Herb. Bog. [BO]: some plants (incl. species of Ficus through the intermediary of the Kon. Natuurkundige Vereeniging at Batavia) (pres. 1870-71), a few numbered in the H.B. series. Herb. Leiden [L] and Berl. [B]: Cinchona material (pres. 1869); Herb. Kol. (= Ind.) Inst. Amsterdam: material of cultivated species of Cinchona from Java (pres. 1873-74).

literature:

(1) Author of ‘Die Chinacultur auf Java’ (Leipzig 1869, transl. from Dutch); ‘De Oost-Indische Cultures in betrekking tot handel en Nijverheid’ (1st ed. 1881, 2nd ed. 1884, suppl. in 1891).

biographical data:

Ind. Mercuur 1910, p. 187, 535-540; Encyclop. N.I., 1917.

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