Heinrich Christian Macklot

Heinrich Christian Macklot ( born October 20, 1799 in Frankfurt am Main, † May 12 1832 in Purwakarta Java ) was a German naturalist and zoologist.

Life and work

Macklot completed since 1815 a pharmacist teaching, studied from 1818 to 1822 Natural History, pharmacy and medicine in Heidelberg and in 1822 received his doctorate.

By recommendation of his friend Heinrich Boie he received on 26 February 1822 appointment as curator of the Osteological Collection of the Natural History Museum in Leiden. On 5 December 1823 he was appointed Coenraad Jacob Temminck of Heinrich Boie and together with Salomon Müller in a research group ( " Natuurkundige Cornmissie ") of the Dutch East India Company, to which the artist Pieter van Oort belonged. The departure to the East Indies ( now Indonesia ), but was delayed until 1825. In June 1826, the Group reached Java. Between 1828 and 1830 Macklot visited the islands of New Guinea and Timor, where he gained zoological and ethnological objects aboard the ship Triton. In May 1831, he undertook a research trip along the Javanese coast. In 1832 he was killed in a bloody uprising of Chinese workers in Purwakarta in Krawang district, Java. A few days before had been burned all his scientific records. A part of Macklots collections was preserved and is located in the Museum Naturalis in Leiden.

Ehrentaxa

The French zoologist André Marie Constant Duméril and Gabriel Bibron named the Timor- water Python as Liasis mackloti. Temminck described in honor Macklots the flying fox Pteropus mackloti. The Dutch botanist Pieter Willem Korthals (1807-1892) devoted Macklot the plant genus Macklottia. However, the name is a synonym of Leptospermum.