Heinrich Drinks (naturalist)
See also: Heinrich Drinks
Heinrich or Hendrik Boie is a German Naturaliste , born the May 4th 1794 in Meldorf in the Holstein and dead the September 4th 1827 with Buitenzorg (today Bogor).
It follows the courses of the anthropologist and German biologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) to Göttingen then of Friedrich Tiedemann (1781-1861) to Heidelberg. Coenraad Jacob Temminck, director of the natural history museum of natural history of Leyde, names it preserving in 1821.
Shortly after its arrival with Leyde, it starts to write Erpétologie de Java on the basis of specimen collected by Carl Reinwardt 1773-1854), Heinrich Kuhl (1797-1821) and Johan Coenraad van Hasselt (1797-1823), members of Natuurkundige Commissie van Nederlandsch Indie (Commission of natural history of the Indies Dutchwomen).
After the death of Kuhl, Boie is had a presentiment of to replace it with Java. A little later it is van Hasselt which succumbs to the roughness of the climate of the Indonesia which will be right of the health of Drinks which dies in 1827.
Its Erpétologie was finished when it embarks for the Asia but its untimely death prevents it from ensuring the publication of it. It is its substitute with the natural history museum of Leyde, Hermann Schlegel, which publishes extracts in of them 1826. Schlegel also publishes some letters of Drinks where this one described of news species. His/her brother finally, Friedrich Drinks (1789-1870), ensures the publication of certain articles posthumously.
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