> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 413](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120544) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1307-1) LSID 1307-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q957115) QID Q957115 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Burman, Johannes (1707-1779), Dutch physician and botanist at Amsterdam, friend and correspondent of Linnaeus, professor of botany in Amsterdam at the *Hortus medicus* from 1728 onward, at the *Athenaeum illustre* 1755-1777. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Burm.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Burm.*\] #### Herbarium and types The Burman herbaria were acquired by Benjamin Delessert and are now at [[Collection G|G]]. The *Thesaurus zeylanicus* herbarium and the Linnaean Lapland herbarium, however, which are in book form, were given to the Institut de France, Paris. – The general Burman herbarium contained collections made by P. Hermann (Cape, Ceylon), Pryon (India), Kleinhoff (India), de Hartog (Cape), Oldenland (Cape), L. Garcin (Africa, Asia), all part of the type collections. In addition there were plants collected by C. Allioni, J. Breyne, A. Haller, M. Houttuyn, A. van Royen, Schmidel. The Burmans sent plants from their herbarium to e.g. Linnaeus (now in [[Collection LINN|LINN]]) and Bernard de Jussieu (now in [[Collection P|P]]-JU). An important set of Ceylonese and Cape plants from the Burmans was also acquired by J. C. D. Schreber, now at [[Collection M|M]]. *Ref*.: IH 2: 108; Lasègue p. 65-67. - Martius, Münchener gelehrte Anz. 31, nos. 84-93, Flora 34: 3-16. 1851. - Fries, Öfv. k. Vetensk.-Akad. Förh. 18: 255-272. 1861. - Candolle, Phytographie 401. 1880. - Enander, Bot. Not. 1910: 203. - Steenis-Kruseman, Fl. males, ser. I. 1: 93. 1950. - Alston, Proc. Linn. Soc. London 168: 102-103. 1957. - Lourteig, Taxon 15: 23-33. 1966. #### Bibliography and biography vd Aa 2: 1604-1605; AG 7: 475; Barnhart 1: 286; BM 1: 289; Bossert p. 60; Jackson p. 346, 354, 395, 493; JW 2: 187, 3: 347, 4: 380, 5: 236; Kew 1: 432; KR p. 109; Langman p. 171, 587; Lasègue p. 565 \[index\]; NI 302-303; NNBW 4: 353; Plesch p. 165-166; PR 1388-1394; SO 2534a, add. 2483. - Burman, Rariorum africanarum plantarum. Amsterdam 1738. (frontisp. portr.) - Anon., GGA 1741 (75): 651 (declines offer Utrecht). - Thunberg, Voyages au Japon 1: 19, 21, 31, 86. 1796. - Jourdan, Dict. Sci. méd., Biogr. méd. 3: 89-90. 1821. - Hall, Epistolae ineditae... J. Burmanni. 1830, viii, 268 p. - Muller, Beschr. Cat. 7000 portr. Nederl. 110. 828-830, 830\*. 1853. - Burman-Becker, Epistolae Burmannorum. Kjøbenhavn 1873. - Kobus en Rivecourt, Biogr. woordenb. 1: 294. 1886. - MacOwan, Trans. S.A. philos. Soc. 4: xxxiii. 1887. - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 155. 1903, 3(2): 167. 1905. (ref. to portr.) - Milner, Cat. portr. Kew 22. 1906. - Sirks, Indisch natuuronderz. 41. 1915 (portr.) - Verduyn den Boer, Botanisten aan de Kaap. 1929. - Backer, Verkl. woordenb. 91. 1936. - Uggla, Sv. Linné-Sällsk. Arsskr. 2: 128-144. 1937. (Linnaeus and the Burmans). - White and Sloane, The Stapelieae ed. 2. 1119. 1937 (portr.) - Engel, Bijdr. Dierk, 27: 263. 1939. - Hutchinson, A botanist in South Africa 562. 1946. - Steenis, Fl. males, ser. I. 4(2): lxxxviii. 1949. - Karsten, The Old Company's Garden at the Cape. 1951. - De Vos, S. Afr. biogr. woordenb. 1: 143. 1968. - Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 368 \[index\]. 1971. - Stafleu in Daniels and Stafleu, Taxon 21: 112. 1972 (portr.) - Burman-Becker, Notices hist. et généal. Burman 9-11. \[s.d.\] #### Composite works J. Burman published: - (1) Rumphius, *Herbarium ambonense*. - (2) Plumier, *Plantarum americanarum*, Amsterdam 1755-1760. - (3) Weinmann, *Phytanthoza iconographia*, dutch transl.: *Taalrijk register*, 4 vols. #### Eponymy *Burmannia* Linnaeus (1753). #### Handwriting Candollea 28: 151-152. 1973. ### Publications ##### n.927. Taalrijk register **Title** *Taalrijk register* der plaat- ofte figuurbeschrijvingen der bloemdragende gewassen, door den Heer Joh. Wilh. Weinmann, eerste apotheker en mede-lidt der Stadsgericht te Regensburg. Waar in de benamingen uit de beste schrijvers, zo oude als nieuwe, na de ordre van het A.B.C. niet allecn zeer geschiktelijk worden ter neer gestelt, maar tegehjk de geslachten en kentekenen, met der zelver gebruik, naar de beste ondervinding, uit de zekerste schrijvers opgetrokken, in de Latijnsche en Hoogduitsche Taalen opregtelijk worden uitgelegt. Nu in het Nederduitsch door een voornaam kender en liefhebber vertaalt; en opgeheldert door Johannes Burmannus, Med. Doct. & Professor botanices. Die daar zijn aantekeningen en verscheide vreemde gewassen bijgevoegd heeft. Amsterdam (Zacharias Romberg) 1736-1748, 4 vols. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Taalrijk reg.* **Notes** *Copy*: U. – Essentially a Dutch translation of Weinmann's *Phytanthoza iconographia*, Regensburg, q.v. However, this Dutch edition has many comments and additions by Johannes Burman and is therefore cited here. The edition is distinct from the Amsterdam edition of the *Phytanthoza* with dutch title pages and with plates only, published as *Duidelijke Vertoning*, Amsterdam 1736-1748. These four volumes are in fact the atlas part of the *Taalrijk Register* and may have been marketed separately. For further details see Weinmann. *Ref*.: PR 10140. - Lawrence, Huntia 2: 10. 1965. ##### n.928. Thesaurus zeylanicus **Title** *Thesaurus zeylanicus*, exhibens plantas in insula Zeylana nascentes; inter quas plurimae novae species, & genera inveniuntur. Omnia iconibus illustrata, ac descripta cura & studio Joannis Burmanni... Amsterdam (Janssonius-Waesberg & Salomon Schouten) 1737. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Thes. zeylan.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1736, p. \[i-xvi\], 1-235, \[236, add.\], index \[14\] p., Cat. pl. afr. \[1\], 1-33, \[34, pl. exot.\], *pl. 1-18, 18\*, 19-110*, unsigned, engraved; frontispiece portrait of the author by J. M. Quinkhard (1736), engraved by J. Houbraken. *Copies*: HU, U. – For a full collation see HU 501; for a commentary on the plants depicted see Lourteig (1966). The second set of arab numbered pages is formed by the separate publication *Catalogi duo plantarum africanorum*, two catalogues of plants collected by Hermann in South Africa. The second catalogue appears for the greater part also in Kolbe, Beschrijving van de Kaap de Goede Hoop 1: 285-325. 1727. The relationship with Kolbe's list, mainly based on data supplied by Johan Hartog, merits further investigation. For Linnaeus's contribution to this work made while staying with Burman in 1735 see Uggla 1937. *Ref*.: BM 1: 289; GF p. 52; HA 2: 284; HE p. 16; HU 501; Jackson p. 395; Kew 1: 432; NI 303; Plesch p. 165-166; PR 1388-1389. - Anon., Boekzaal Dec 1736, p. 717 (announcement of printing, virtually of publication), idem Jan 1737, p. 36-45 (extensive review). - Smith, J. E., Trans. Linn. Soc. 1: 37. 1791. - Lourteig, Taxon 15: 24-32. 1966. - Kostermans, Reinwardtia 7(5): 537-538. 1969. - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Botanik 90-91. 1975. ##### n.929. Rariorum africanarum plantarum **Title** Joannis Burmanni, Med. Doct. & in Horto medico Amstelaedamensis botanices professoris, *Rariorum africanarum plantarum*, ad vivum delineatarum, iconibus ac descriptionibus illustratarum, decas prima \[-decima\] Amsterdam (Boussière) 1738-1739. Qu. **Abbreviated title**: *Rar. afric. pl.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Dec 1-2: Mai 1738, Dec 3-4: Jun 1738, Dec 5-10. 1739; p. i-viii, 1-106, \[4\], 109-42, \[4\], 145-167, \[5\], 169-193, \[5\], 195-268 \[2\] (74 as '80', 75 as '81', 82 as '88', 83 as '89', 86 as '92', 87 as '93'), plates *1-100*, unsigned engravings. For a full collation and analysis see HU 508. *Copies*: HU, U. – A copy was offered by the trade in 1973 at H. fl. 2200, -; the Plesch copy sold at *£* 800. The plates are in part drawn from the *Codex Simon van der Stel*, the *Herbarium Witsenianum* and the *Codex Witsenii*; the artist of some (or most?) of them was Hendlik Claudius, of Breslau (fide Nissen p. 87, 237, no. 302) who accompanied Simon van der Stel on an expedition to Namaqualand, 1685-1686; however, the origin of the plates and the identity of the artists needs further investigation. *Ref*.: BM 1: 289; GF p. 53; HU 508; Jackson 346; Kew 1: 432; NI 302; Plesch p. 165; PR 1390; SA 2: 546. - Anon., Maand. Uittreksel of Boekzaal gel. Waerelt 46: 596, 706. 1738. - Barnard, J. S. Afr. Bot. 13: 12. 1947 (on *Codex Witsenii*). - Tyrrell-Glynn and Levyns, Flora africana 14. 1963. - Macnae & Davidson, J. S. Afr. Bot. 35(2): 65-81. 1969 (on *Codex Witsenii*). - Sotheby, Cat. Stiftung Botanik 92-93. 1975. ##### n.930. Het auctuarium **Title** *Het auctuarium*, ofte vermeerdering, op het Amboinsch kruyd-boek. Dat is beschryving van de overige boomen, heesters, en planten, die men in Amboina, en de omleggende eilanden vind, alien zeer accuraat beschreven en afgebeeldt na der zelver gedaantes, met de verscheide medische benamingen, aanqueking, en gebruik, door Georgius Everhardus Rumphius,... nu voor 't eerst uitgegeven, en \['eu'\] in het Latijn overgezet, door Joannes Burmannus,... die daar verscheidene benamingen, en zijn aanmerkingen heeft bygevoegt. Amsterdam (Mynerd Uytwerf, Wed. S. Schouten en zoon). **Abbreviated title**: *Auctuarium*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1755, after 20 Jun (date of postscript; rev. GGA 6 Sep 1756), p. \[ii-iii\], \[i\]-74, index universalis \[20\] p., \[1, postscript\]. *Copy*: U. The text itself contains no generic names that have any standing. However, Burman provided binary names in accordance with Linnaean nomenclature in the *Index universalis*. Some of these species names are new \[marked B.\] and valid. For further details and literature on the *Herbarium amboinense* see Rumphius. This *Auctuarium* contains, in addition to the new names mentioned above, critical notes by Burman. The above title page is the dutch one on p. \[iii\]; p. \[ii\] has a latin t.p. "*Herbarii amboinensis auctuarium*..." ##### n.931. Wachendorfia **Title** *Wachendorfia*. Amsterdam 1757. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Wachendorfia*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 3-15 Oct 1757, p. \[i\], \[1\]-4, 1 pl., \[1, poem Cuno\]. – Published shortly after 3 Oct 1757, date of dedication to Evert Jacob Wachendorff (1703-1758), then professor of botany at Utrecht (1743-1758) and author of the *Horti ultrajectini index* of 1747. Copy sent to Linnaeus on 15 Oct 1757. Burman's *Wachendorfia* is one of the first publications known to me in which binary names for species in the Linnaean style are used by an author other than Linnaeus or his pupils. For the first publication of this kind, so far known, also by Burman, see no. 930, the *Index Universalis* to Rumphius' *Auctuarium*. The description of the S. African genus *Wachendorfia* was based on living material from the Amsterdam botanical garden and on herbarium material collected by Oldenland. – The fold-out plate is by J. C. Cuno (1708-1780), engraved by J. Körnlein. The extra sheet contains an epigrammatic poem by J. C. Cuno honoring both Burman and Wachendorff. Stevenson (Hu 558) suggests that the pamphlet was printed along with Burman's edition of Plumier's *Plantarum americanarum fasc*. (1755-1760). The complete history of the pamphlet is found in Burman's letter to Linnaeus. A quarto reprint was issued in 1771, Gera (Germany) (BMNH) (NZgS 9 Mar 1772, lacking the poem by Cuno); the text and plate also appeared in Nova Acta phys. med. Acad. Leop. 2: 192-198. 1761. *Ref*.: BM 1: 289; HU 558; PR 1371. - Burman, Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. 2 (Obr. 50): 192-198. t. 2. fig. 10. 1761. - Hulth & Uggla, Bref och Skr. Linné, afd. 2. 2: 107-113. 1943. ##### n.932. Index alter in omnes tomos herbarii amboinensis **Title** *Index alter in omnes tomos herbarii amboinensis* cl. Georgii Everhardi Rumphii, quem de novo recensuit, auxit et emendavit Joannes Burmannus M.D.... Leiden (Cornelius Haak), Amsterdam (Johannes Schreuder) 1769. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Index alt. herb. amboin.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1769, sign. A-M (32 p.). *Copy*: U. *Ref*.: BM 1: 289; PR 1393. ##### n.933. Flora malabarica **Title** *Flora malabarica*, sive index in omnes tomos holti malabarici, quem juxta normam a botanicis hujus aevi receptam conscripsit, et ordine alphabetico digessit Joannes Burmannus M.D.... Amsterdam (Johannes Schreuder) 1769. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Fl. malab.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1769, p. \[1\]-10. *Copy*: U. *Ref*.: BM 1: 289; Kew 1: 432; PR 1392.