David de Gorter

David de Gorter ( born April 30, 1717 in Enkhuizen, † April 3, 1783 in Zutphen ) was a Dutch physician and botanist. His botanical author abbreviation is " Gorter ".

Life and work

The son of Johannes de Gorter graduated in medicine at the University of Harderwijk, concluded this in 1734 with a disputation De Aphorismi Hippocratis and received his doctorate in 1737 with a thesis De necessitate Physices in Medicina Doctor of Philosophy. After that he worked in practice, where he continued his medical studies. In 1742 he was a lecturer of medicine in Harderwijk and received in the following year as an associate professor of botany. During this time he met Carl Linnaeus, who had found in Harderwijk a place of work.

After he had held his inaugural lecture as an associate professor on July 1, 1746, he was Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology and in 1751 rector of the Alma Mater. In 1754 he went with his father as a personal physician to the Empress Elizabeth to St. Petersburg. Three years after his father had gone from Russian tsar, urged him severe pain gout returning to Holland. So he came in August 1761 in his home, where he settled in Wijk bij Duurstede. In 1778 he moved to Zutphen, where he eventually died.

His widow, Maria Elisabeth Schultz gave his herbarium with 2,000 plants of Harderwijk University, for which she received 100 ducats from gratitude. This herbarium is now part of the National Herbarium of the Netherlands.

David de Gorter was a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and other academies and learned societies. According to him, the plant genus Gorteria is named. He published Stepan Petrovich Krascheninnikows plant flora Ingrica. The Dutch botanical magazine Gorteria bears his name.

Works

  • Materia medica, exhibens Virium medicamentorum simplicium catalogus, in tres libros divisa. Amsterdam 1740
  • Flora Gelro - Zutphanica. Harderwijk 1745 1757
  • Orationes duae inaugurales de primo Aphorismo Hippocratis. o.o. O.D.
  • Flora Ingrica. Petrop. 1761
  • Oratio funebris in obitum gulielmi IV Harderwijk 1752
  • Flora Belgica. Leiden 1767, 1768, 1771
  • Mededeeling over Jer. XVII. 6 en XLVIII. 6; in dezelfde Ratio D. XV. Descripción van een bloem - horology, in de Ratio van het Bat. Gene. the proefonderv. wijsbeg. Rotterdam 1776
  • Flora VII Provinciarum Belgii Foederati indigena. Haarlem 1781, Utrecht 1814
  • Empty the Plant customer. Amsterdam 1782, Vol 1
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