David de Gorter

David de Gorter
David de Gorter
Born	April 30, 1717(1717-04-30) Enkhuizen
Died	April 8, 1783(1783-04-08) (aged 65) Zutphen
Occupation	Botanist

David de Gorter (1717–1783) was a Dutch physician and botanist.

He was professor at the then University of Harderwijk and royal physician to Empress Elizabeth of Russia. He was a member of Imperial Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and other academies and learned societies.

At Harderwijk, he made friends with the young Carolus Linnaeus, who came there to obtain his doctorate degree. Later, Linnaeus named the plant genus Gorteria after David de Gorter and his father, the physician Johannes de Gorter. In St Petersburg, de Gorter edited and published Krasheninnikov's last work, Flora Ingrica^[1]. He authored one of the first floras to use binomial nomenclature, Flora Belgica from 1767^[2]. .

On May 21, 1775 he married Mary Elizabeth Schultz, a friend of Betje Wolff. After his death, she donated his herbarium to the Academy in Harderwijk. It now is kept at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands.

De Gorter spend his last years in Zutphen, where he wrote his Flora of the Seven Provinces^[3].

The Dutch botanical journal 'Gorteria is named to his honour^[4].

The standard author abbreviation Gorter is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[5]

References

1. ^ de Gorter, David (1761). Flora Ingrica ex schedis Stephani Krascheninnikow confecta et propriis observationibus. Petropoli: Typis Academiae Scientiarum. http://www.archive.org/details/floraingricaexsc00gort. 
2. ^ de Gorter, David (1767). Flora Belgica. Paddenburg (Utrecht): Trajecti ad Rhenum. http://books.google.dk/books?id=lUI-AAAAcAAJ&dq=de+gorter+flora+belgica&source=gbs_navlinks_s. 
3. ^ de Gorter, David (1781). Flora VII provinciarum Belgii foederati indigena. Apud C.H. Bohn & Filium. http://books.google.nl/books?id=JwUOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA275&lr=#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
4. ^ Gorteria
5. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

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Name	Gorter, David De
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Date of birth	April 30, 1717
Place of birth	Enkhuizen
Date of death	April 8, 1783
Place of death	Zutphen