Johann Gerhard König

See also: König

Johann Gerhard König (also spelled Koenig ) is a Médecin, a Missionnaire and a Botaniste Suisse, born in 1728 with Coulard (between Poland and Russia) and died in 1785 in India. It is one of the first botanists to explore India.

It follows the courses of Carl von Linné (1707-1778) and corresponds with Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820). He visits the Iceland, of which he studies the vegetation.

König is sent in the colony Dutchwoman in India close to Madras. He is the doctor at the station of draft like to the Moravian mission. There remain ten years there before working with the Nawab d' Arcot. Four years later, it enters powerful the English Compagnie of the Eastern Indies as botanist. It is then sent to the Siam and in the Malayan Péninsule where it to the responsibility of find species useful like the Cardamome or the Gambooge in order to put them in culture in India. It makes important harvests of specimens which it sends to Linné, Sir Banks and Anders Jahan Retzius (1742-1821).

It makes appear several works of botany of which Of indigenorum remediorum AD morbos curves regioni indemicos expeignandos efficacia in 1773.

Source

Ralph R. Stewart (1982). Missionaries and Clergymen ace Botanists in India and Pakistan, Taxon , 31 (1): 57-64.

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