João de Loureiro
João de Loureiro(1717,Lisbon– 18 October 1791) was aPortugueseJesuitmissionaryandbotanist.[1]
Biography
[edit]After receiving admission to theJesuit Order,João de Loureiro served as a missionary inGoa,capital ofPortuguese India(3 years) andMacau(4 years). In 1742 he traveled toĐàng Trong(known to the Europeans asCochinchina), remaining there for 35 years. Here he worked as amathematicianandnaturalistfor the king of Đàng Trong,[2]acquiring knowledge on the properties and uses of nativemedicinal plants.In 1777, he journeyed toCanton,inBengal,returning to Lisbon four years later.[3]During this period, the Captain Thomas Riddel gave Loureiro the booksSystema Naturae,Genera PlantarumandPhilosophia BotanicabyCarl Linnaeus,which greatly influenced the Portuguese botanist.[4]
The first 40 years he stayed in Vietnam, João de Loureiro was inventorying indigenous herbal remedies. His local garden contained 1,000 unique herbal species, making him one of the greatest botanist collectors of the 18th century.[2]
João de Loureiro 1790, he published the bookFlora Cochinchinensissponsored by the Royal Portuguese Academy of Sciences.[4]João de Loureiro has numerous species "loureiroi"dedicated to him, mostly plants but also the dinosaurDraconyx loureiroiin honour of his being the first Portuguese palaeontologist.[5]
The taxonomistElmer Drew Merrilllater argued that Loureiro's work contained various mistakes caused by a misunderstanding of the Linnaean system.[4]
Standard author abbreviation
[edit]The standardauthor abbreviationLour.is used to indicate this person as the author whencitingabotanical name.[6]
Works
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- Flora Cochinchinensis: sistens plantas in regno Cochinchina nascentes: quibus accedunt aliae observatae in Sinensi imperio, Africa orientali, Indiaeque locis variis: omnes dispositae secundum systema sexuale Linnaeanum
- Flora Cochinchinensis […] denuo in Germania edita,notes byCarl Ludwig Willdenow,1793
- « On the nature and mode of production of Agallochum or aloes-wood », translated from Portuguese into English, inTracts relative to botany, tr. from different languages,London,Phillips and Fardon […], 1805
Bibliography
[edit]- Pe. João de Loureiro: missionário e botânicoby José Maria Braga, 1938.[7]
References
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- ^"NATURALMENTE scienza - Padre Loureiro e la flora della Cocincina".
- ^abJohn W. O'Malley & al (1 January 1999).The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773, Volume 1.University of Toronto Press.ISBN9780802042873.
- ^Merrill, E. D. (1933)."Loureiro and His Botanical Work".Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.72(4): 229–239.JSTOR984687.
- ^abcBritt-Louise Gunnarsson (28 October 2011).Languages of Science in the Eighteenth Century.Walter de Gruyter.ISBN9783110255065.
- ^Mateus, O. and Antunes, M.T., 2001, January. Draconyx loureiroi, a new camptosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Late Jurassic of Lourinhã, Portugal. In Annales de paléontologie (Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 61-73). Elsevier Masson.
- ^International Plant Names Index.Lour.
- ^WorldCat TitlesPe. João de Loureiro, etc.
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