John Tradescant the Younger
John Tradescant the ( * August 4, 1608 in Meopham, Kent, † April 22, 1662 in South Lambeth, Vauxhall today ) Younger was an English gardener and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Trad. ".
Life and work
John Tradescant the Younger was the son of John Tradescant the Elder. 1637, 1642 and 1654, he traveled to the territory of the British colonies in Virginia, collected plants there and brought many new species in his home with, which were then cultivated in the garden of the family.
1638, after the death of his father, he took over his post as chief gardener of the located in Greenwich Schlossesgartens of Queen's House where King Charles I of England Charles II resided and served in that position later. In 1656 he published under the title Musaeum Tradescantianum a catalog of the extensive natural history collection begun by his father and whose extension he had contributed. The collection was the first public English curio cabinet. Later she fell to the Elias Ashmole and formed the basis of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
The grave of John Tradescant the Younger is located in the London Borough of Lambeth in the cemetery of the Church of St. Mary at Lambeth Road, where he is buried with his father.
Ehrentaxon
Heinrich Bernhard Rupp named after the Tradescants the genre of three-masted Flowers ( Tradescantia ) from the plant family of Commelina family ( Commelinaceae ). Linnaeus later took the name.