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

Born: 1825, Amsterdam, Holland. Died: 1906, Arnhem, Gld, Holland.

career:

Physician, educated at Amsterdam, Paris and Vienna; from 1859-96 Professor in the University of Amsterdam. He specialized in pharmacognosy and mycology.

collections:

In 1871/72 he presented herbarium material of Cinchona species, cultivated in Java, to the Herb. Kol. Mus. Haarlem (= Ind. Inst. Amsterdam). To our knowledge he himself never visited Java, probably he received the collection from van Gorkom (see there) or someone else.

biographical data:

Kon. Akad. Wet. A’dam Versl. Afd. Nat. 1906/07, p. 174-177; Ber. D.B.G. 26a, 1908, p. (12)-(33); Jaarb. Kon. Akad. Wet. A’dam 1909, p. 57-105; Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 49, 1939, p. 447; l.c. 50, 1940, p. 198; l.c. 51, 1941, p. 364.

photo gallery:

1896		Eigen Haard 49 (1895) 773	Label with signature	Label with initials