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Koorders, Sijfert Hendrik (1863-1919)
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Sijfert Hendrik
Last name
Koorders
Initials
S.H.
Life Dates
1863 - 1919
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Fungi
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BO (main), A, B, BM, BR, CAL, G, GRO, K, L, P, PNH, U, UC
Countries
Malesian region: Malaysia, Indonesia
Associate(s)
Koorders-Schumacher, Anna (1870-1934) (co-collector)
Valeton, Theodoric (1855-1929) (co-collector)
Valeton, Theodoric (1855-1929) (co-collector)
Biography
Dutch botanist at the Herbarium Bogoriense and expert on the forests of Java. Koorders was born in Bandung, Java, and was based for much of his career at Buitenzorg (Bogor), meanwhile undertaking plenty of fieldwork in other parts of the island. As a forest officer for the Dutch East Indies Forest Service from 1885 he made extensive surveys of the forests of Java (from 1888 onwards), commissioned by Melchior Treub.
He worked as a curator at the Herbarium Bogoriense (BO) in 1892 and in 1895 travelled to European herbaria to carry out research for a mountain flora of Java. Returning to Java in 1897 he was again based at the herbarium in Buitenzorg and from 1903 at Bagelen, having rejoined the Forest Service. After a sojourn in Europe in 1906 (on health grounds), Koorders returned to work in Buitenzorg in 1910. He founded the Dutch East Indies Association for Nature Protection (Nederlandisch-Indische Vereeniging tot Natuur bescherming) in 1912. A rift with his colleague, C.A. Backer, led to the formation of a similar group, the Netherlands Indies Natural History Society, and few people joined both Koorders' and Backer's groups, effectively splitting the scientific community of Bogor in two. Some 40,000 numbers collected by Koorders were deposited in BO. He made a herbarium of cultivated plants in the Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens in 1884-1885, but this suffered insect damage.
Sources:
M.J. van Steenis Kruseman, "Cyclopedia of Collectors", Flora Malesiana, online edn:
http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/fmcollectors/k/koorderssh.htm
P. Jepson and R.J. Whittaker, 2002, "Histories of Protected Areas: internationalism of conservationist values and their adoption in the Netherlands Indies (Indonesia)", Environment and History, 8: 147-150.
He worked as a curator at the Herbarium Bogoriense (BO) in 1892 and in 1895 travelled to European herbaria to carry out research for a mountain flora of Java. Returning to Java in 1897 he was again based at the herbarium in Buitenzorg and from 1903 at Bagelen, having rejoined the Forest Service. After a sojourn in Europe in 1906 (on health grounds), Koorders returned to work in Buitenzorg in 1910. He founded the Dutch East Indies Association for Nature Protection (Nederlandisch-Indische Vereeniging tot Natuur bescherming) in 1912. A rift with his colleague, C.A. Backer, led to the formation of a similar group, the Netherlands Indies Natural History Society, and few people joined both Koorders' and Backer's groups, effectively splitting the scientific community of Bogor in two. Some 40,000 numbers collected by Koorders were deposited in BO. He made a herbarium of cultivated plants in the Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens in 1884-1885, but this suffered insect damage.
Sources:
M.J. van Steenis Kruseman, "Cyclopedia of Collectors", Flora Malesiana, online edn:
http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/fmcollectors/k/koorderssh.htm
P. Jepson and R.J. Whittaker, 2002, "Histories of Protected Areas: internationalism of conservationist values and their adoption in the Netherlands Indies (Indonesia)", Environment and History, 8: 147-150.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 336; Chaudhri, M.N., Vegter, H.I. & de Bary, H.A., Index Herb. Coll. I-L (1972): 378; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 37;
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
Sijfert Hendrik
Last name
Koorders
Initials
S.H.
Life Dates
1863 - 1919
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Fungi
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
BO (main), A, B, BM, BR, CAL, G, GRO, K, L, P, PNH, U, UC
Countries
Malesian region: Malaysia, Indonesia
Associate(s)
Koorders-Schumacher, Anna (1870-1934) (co-collector)
Valeton, Theodoric (1855-1929) (co-collector)
Valeton, Theodoric (1855-1929) (co-collector)
Biography
Dutch botanist at the Herbarium Bogoriense and expert on the forests of Java. Koorders was born in Bandung, Java, and was based for much of his career at Buitenzorg (Bogor), meanwhile undertaking plenty of fieldwork in other parts of the island. As a forest officer for the Dutch East Indies Forest Service from 1885 he made extensive surveys of the forests of Java (from 1888 onwards), commissioned by Melchior Treub.
He worked as a curator at the Herbarium Bogoriense (BO) in 1892 and in 1895 travelled to European herbaria to carry out research for a mountain flora of Java. Returning to Java in 1897 he was again based at the herbarium in Buitenzorg and from 1903 at Bagelen, having rejoined the Forest Service. After a sojourn in Europe in 1906 (on health grounds), Koorders returned to work in Buitenzorg in 1910. He founded the Dutch East Indies Association for Nature Protection (Nederlandisch-Indische Vereeniging tot Natuur bescherming) in 1912. A rift with his colleague, C.A. Backer, led to the formation of a similar group, the Netherlands Indies Natural History Society, and few people joined both Koorders' and Backer's groups, effectively splitting the scientific community of Bogor in two. Some 40,000 numbers collected by Koorders were deposited in BO. He made a herbarium of cultivated plants in the Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens in 1884-1885, but this suffered insect damage.
Sources:
M.J. van Steenis Kruseman, "Cyclopedia of Collectors", Flora Malesiana, online edn:
http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/fmcollectors/k/koorderssh.htm
P. Jepson and R.J. Whittaker, 2002, "Histories of Protected Areas: internationalism of conservationist values and their adoption in the Netherlands Indies (Indonesia)", Environment and History, 8: 147-150.
He worked as a curator at the Herbarium Bogoriense (BO) in 1892 and in 1895 travelled to European herbaria to carry out research for a mountain flora of Java. Returning to Java in 1897 he was again based at the herbarium in Buitenzorg and from 1903 at Bagelen, having rejoined the Forest Service. After a sojourn in Europe in 1906 (on health grounds), Koorders returned to work in Buitenzorg in 1910. He founded the Dutch East Indies Association for Nature Protection (Nederlandisch-Indische Vereeniging tot Natuur bescherming) in 1912. A rift with his colleague, C.A. Backer, led to the formation of a similar group, the Netherlands Indies Natural History Society, and few people joined both Koorders' and Backer's groups, effectively splitting the scientific community of Bogor in two. Some 40,000 numbers collected by Koorders were deposited in BO. He made a herbarium of cultivated plants in the Buitenzorg Botanic Gardens in 1884-1885, but this suffered insect damage.
Sources:
M.J. van Steenis Kruseman, "Cyclopedia of Collectors", Flora Malesiana, online edn:
http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/fmcollectors/k/koorderssh.htm
P. Jepson and R.J. Whittaker, 2002, "Histories of Protected Areas: internationalism of conservationist values and their adoption in the Netherlands Indies (Indonesia)", Environment and History, 8: 147-150.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 336; Chaudhri, M.N., Vegter, H.I. & de Bary, H.A., Index Herb. Coll. I-L (1972): 378; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 37;
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