Johannes Jacobus Smith

Johannes Jacobus Smith, Johann Jacob Smith ( born July 29, 1867 in Antwerp, † January 14, 1947 in Oegstgeest ) was a gardener and botanist. After training in various establishments of horticulture, he went to Java, where he worked for many years at the Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg. One focus of his research was the family of orchids. His botanical author abbreviation is " JJSm. ".

Life

Johannes Jacobus Smith was born in 1867 in Antwerp, Belgium and grew up in Amsterdam. At the suggestion of his teacher JC Costerus he trained as a gardener at the nursery Groenewegen. She also held positions a year in the Kew Gardens in London, and two years in Brussels, first in the orchid nursery Linden, then in the botanical garden.

Again Costerus it was that Smith proposed to be employed in the East Indies. He was there from 1891 in charge of a coffee plantation, but was more interested in the species-rich forest in the area and soon accepted an invitation to Melchior Treubs to go to the botanical garden Buitenzorg. There he advanced from assistant curator to the employee and later director of the herbarium, and finally from 1922 to the director of the botanical garden. During his career, he undertook numerous field studies and travels in the Indonesian archipelago. He published especially for the orchid flora and got 1910 honorary doctorate for his scientific accomplishments of the University of Utrecht. After his retirement due to illness and return to the Netherlands he kept in close contact with the herbaria in Utrecht and Leiden, numerous writings from this period. His greenhouse was home to numerous tropical orchids, but the collection was lost in World War II due to lack of fuel. Smith died in 1947 at the age of eighty years.

Works

  • The Botanical Garden ' s Lands PlantenTuin at Buitenzorg in Java. Leipzig 1893.
  • The Orchids of Dutch New Guinea. Brill, Leiden 1903-1920. ( Reprint: Australian Orchid Foundation, Essendon 1990)
  • The Orchids of Ambon. Landsdrukkerij, Batavia, 1905 (reprint: Kessinger, Belle Fourche 2009).
  • The Orchids of Java. Brill, Leiden 1905-14. ( Seven volumes, reprint: Kessinger, Belle Fourche 2009)
  • The Orchids of Java. Figures - Atlas. Brill, Leiden 1908-1909.
  • Preliminary descriptions of new Papuan orchids. I, II Buitenzorg 1908-1911.
  • SH Koorders, JJ Smith: Ericacea - Gentianaceae - Corsiaceae - Polygalaceae. Leiden 1912.
  • SH Koorders, Th Valeton, JJ Smith: Bijdrage no 1 [ -13 ] tot de kennis the boomsoorten op Java. Additamenta ad cognitionem Florae javanicae .... G. Kolff, Batavia & ' s Gravenhage 1894-1914. 13 volumes.
  • Geïllustreerde gids voor " ' s Lands Plantentuin " te Buitenzorg. Department van landbouw, Nijverheid s trade, Batavia around 1915.
  • Orchidaceae novae Malayenses. Volume VIII Buitenzorg 1917.
  • J. J. Smith et al: Lands Plantentuin Buitenzorg. Gedenkschrift ter Gelegenheid van het honderdjarig bestaan ​​op 18 mei 1917. Eerste gedeelte. Buitenzorg 1917.
  • Aanteekeningen over orchideeën. o.o., 1920.
  • Wandelgids voor ' s Lands PlantenTuin te Buitenzorg. Buitenzorg 1924.
  • The Orchidaceae of Dr. W. Kaudern 's expedition to Celebes. o.o., 1926.
  • E. Irmscher, H. Winkler, JJ Smith: Contributions to the knowledge of the flora of Borneo. Institute of General Botany, Hamburg 1927-1928.
  • Icones orchidacearum Malayensium. ' S Lands Plantentuin, Buitenzorg 1930-1949.
  • Enumeration of the Orchidaceae of Sumatra and Neighbouring islands. Dahlem in Berlin in 1933.
  • New Orchids Papua Parisiens. In: Engler 's Botanical yearbooks, 1934 (reprint: Australian Orchid Foundation, Essendon 1984).
  • Contributions to the knowledge of saprophytes Java. XII- XIV: Burmannia tuberosa Becc ..
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