> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 250](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120381) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/34740-1) LSID 34740-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313093) QID Q313093 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Boerhaave, Herman (1668-1739), Dutch physician and botanist, "communis Europae praeceptor." **Abbreviated name**: *Boerh.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Boerh.*\] #### Herbarium and types Boerhaave does not seem to have kept a large formal herbarium. Four volumes of excellently preserved specimens from the Leiden and other Dutch gardens (1685-1693) are in the Sloane herbarium. Nearly all specimens are carefully labelled by Boerhaave. Other plants in these volumes were contributed by Commelin, Hermann and Ruys, whereas quite a few came from the gardens owned by Beaumont, Beverninck, Dix, Fagel, Flines, and Heemskerck. Boerhaave also sent plants to Sherard ([[Collection OXF|OXF]]). Other specimens from the Leiden garden are at [[Collection L|L]]. – For a note on a possible Boerhaave herbarium at Moscow see Jansen en Wachter. *Ref*.: IH 2: 81. - Jansen en Wachter, Ned. kruidk. Arch. 53: 235. 1943. - Dandy, The Sloane herbarium 75, 92-93. 1958. - Clokie, Account herbaria Oxford 135. 1964. #### Bibliography and biography AG 3: 290, 5(1): 373; Barnhart 1: 208; BM 1: 185; Bossertp. 43; GR p. 705; Henrey 462-463; HU vol. 2: 589 \[ind.\]; Jackson p. 289; JW 1: 439, 2: 185, 3: 343, 4: 376, 5: 235; LS 3182-3185; Moebius p. 448 \[index\]; NI 186; NNBW 6; PR 930-932. - Hulth, Bref och Skr. Linné ser. 2: 1: 313-315- 1916. - Lütjeharms, Gesch. Mykologie 254 \[ind.\]. 1936. - Lindeboom, Janus 46: 264-274. 1957. (Boerhaave and Linnaeus). - Lindeboom, Bibliographia Boerhaaviana. Leiden 1959 (Analecta Boerhaaviana vol. 1) (viii, 105, 2 p.) q.v. for earlier biogr. references. - Lindeboom, Boerhaave's correspondence, part I. Leiden 1962 (Analecta Boerhaaviana vol. 3), ix, 241 p. - Lindeboom, Iconographia Boerhaavii. Leiden 1963 (Analecta Boerhaaviana vol. 4 (all portraits). - Lindeboom, Correspondence part 2. Leiden 1964 (Analecta Boerhaaviana vol. 5), 417 p. - Lindeboom, Herman Boerhaave, The man and his work. London 1968 (The main biography). - Lindeboom, ed., Boerhaave and his time. Leiden 1970. 174 p. (Analecta Boerhaaviana vol. 6), (contains e.g. Stearn, Boerhaave as a botanist, p. 114-120). - Edwards, J. S. Afr. Bot. 30: 103-105. 1964 (on mss. in Sherard coll.) - Vos, S. Afr. biogr. woordenb. 1: 88. 1968. - Lindeboom, DSB 1: 224-228. 1970 (sec. bibl.) - Heniger, Janus 58: 1-78. 1971 (portr.) - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 367 \[index.\] 1971. - Lindeboom, Boerhaave and Great Britain. Leiden 1974 (Analecta Boerhaaviana vol. 7), 75 p. - Smit, History of the life sciences 882-883, 1041. 1974. #### Eponymy *Boerhaavea* Cothenius (1790, *orth. var.*); *Boerhaavia* P. Miller (1754, *orth. var.*); *Boerhavia* Linnaeus (1753). #### Postage stamps Netherlands 5 + 3 c. (1928) yv. 216; 12 1/2 + 3 1/2 c. (1938) yv. 308. ### Publications ##### n.592. Index plantarum, quae in horto academico Lugdano Batavo reperiuntur **Title** *Index plantarum, quae in horto academico Lugdano Batavo reperiuntur*. \[Leiden\] (Cornelius Boutestein) 1710. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Ind. pl. hort. Lugd. Bat.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1710, p. \[i-xvi\], 1-278, \[12 p., index\], engraved frontispiece on \[i\]. The 1728 reprint differs only in the title page. *Copy*: U. *Ref*.: BM 1: 185; Jackson p. 441; Langman p. 145; PR 930; SA 2: 544; IDC 6193. - Oudemans, Ned. kruidk. Arch. ser. 2. 2: 234. 1877. - Lindeboom, Bibl. Boerh. no. 431. 1958. ##### n.593. Index alter plantarum quae in horto academico Lugduno-Batavo **Title** *Index alter plantarum quae in horto academico Lugduno-Batavo* aluntur. Leiden (Petrus van der Aa) 1720, 2 vols. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Ind. alter hort. Lugd.-Bat.* **Notes** *Pars prima*: \[(1)\]-(34), \[(36)-(40)\], 1-320; *pars secunda*: \[i\], 1-270, \[18 p., index\], in all 40 copper engravings. *Copies*: HU, U. – Lindeboom cites also the Janssonios van der Aa imprint of 1720 (see Oudemans). The reprint of 1727, Leiden (Janssonios van der Aa), *copy*: HU, differs only in the title page.–For a study of the bryophytes listed by Boerhaave see Jansen & Wachter (1939). The importance of the *Index alter* as a document of plant introduction ("Die Capzeit") is discussed by Kraus (1894). The authorship is uncertain; Boerhaave's actual part in the compilation was probably small. *Ref*.: BM 1: 185; Colmeiro 1: clxiv; HE p. 14; Jackson p. 441; Kew 1: 280; Langman 145; Lindeboom; PR 931; SA 2: 544. - Oudemans, Ned. kruidk. Arch. ser. 2. 2: 234. 1877. - Kraus, Der botanische Garten der Universität Halle 2: 109-122. 1894. - Uittien, Ned. Tijdschr. Geneesk. 82: 4841-4851. 1938. - Sprague, Ned. Tijdschr. Geneesk. 82: 4891-4894. 1938. - Jansen & Wachter, Ned. kruidk. Arch. 49: 246-251. 1939. - Ooststroom, *in* Karsten, The old Company's Garden at the Cape. 1951, p. 158-164. - Lindeboom, Bibl. Boerh. 434-436. 1959. - Tyrell-Glynn and Levyns, Flora africana 6-7. 1963. - Stearn, Early Leyden Botany 23-26. 1961.