Anastasio Guzmán
Anastasio Guzmán (Seville? 17?? - Los Llanganates 1807) was a Pharmacien and Spanish Naturaliste .
Of his activity out of ground of Spain, one has no sure information, on the other hand one finds trace (Estrella source, 1988) of his study trip in South America.
After having unloaded with Buenos Aires, it went initially to the Chile then to the Peru where it spent much time in company of Juan Jose Tafalla, another Spanish naturalist.
In 1801, it went to Quito (Ecuador) to continue its studies naturalists and of Chimie, while financing the voyage and research on its personal funds.
He died in 1807 during a forwarding in the cordillera of Los Llanganates in Ecuador, with the research of the lost treasure of the INCA S.
The Ecuadorian botanist Jose Mejía del Valle there Lequerica (1775-1813) and the widow of Guzmán in vain tried to recover the abundant material of the naturalist; during years one believed that it was completely lost, but recently (always according to Estrella, 1988) it is admitted that part of this material is still preserved at Quito.
Some time after its death, Tafalla suggested with Hipólito Ruiz López (1754-1815) and with Jose Antonio Pavón (1754-1844) the name of the kind Guzmania . Karl Sigismund Kunth (1788-1850) also dedicated the name of a plant to the Spanish naturalist, the buttercup of Guzmán ( Ranunculus guzmanii ).
Internal bonds
- Botanical
- Guzmania
- decorative Plant
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