Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773-1854) was a Prussian-born Dutchbotanist. 1773 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ...
Reinwardt was the founder and first director of agriculture of the botanic garden at Bogor (Buitenzorg) in Java. He was Professor of natural philosophy at the University of Leiden from 1823 to 1845. Map of Java Java (Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese: Jawa) is an island of Indonesia, and the site of its capital city, Jakarta. ... Leiden University in the city of Leiden, is the oldest university in the Netherlands. ...
Heinrich Cotta was the founder of the Tharandt Forestry Academy near Dresden and his son Carl Bernard became an important geologist.
Carl Sigismund Kunth (1788-1850; German botanist) was a prolific author and great collector of plants.
"The example set by Carl Ludwig Willdenow in publishing coloured plates, with descriptions, of new or little-known plants grown at the Berlin Botanic Garden was followed by his successor Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767-1851), with the help of C. Friedrich Otto (1783-1856), the curator of the garden".
With his erudition, he impressed the governor-general baron Van der Capellen and the head of the botanical garden Buitenzorg CasparGeorgCarlReinwardt.
Already, these men witnessed a second Engelbert Kaempfer and Carl Peter Thunberg (author of Flora Japonica), both former resident physicians at Deshima.
Sent on a mission by the Dutch East India Company, Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716), a German physician and a botanist who lived in Japan from 1690 until 1692, ushered in this tradition of a combination of physician and botanist.
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