Paul Hermann
See also: Hermann
Paul Hermann is a Botaniste and a German Médecin of origin Dutch E, born the June 30th 1646 with Halle and dead the January 29th 1695 with Leyde.
Hermann is the son of Johann Hermann, a famous organist, and of Maria Magdalena Röber, the girl of a man of the church. He obtains his title of doctor of medicine with Padoue in 1670. He leaves in 1672 to Ceylon as doctor on behalf of the Compagnie Dutchwoman the Eastern Indies. Hermann turns over to Europe in 1678 and is named, one year later, professor of botany at the university of Leyde, city where it passes the remainder of his life.
The majority of its work are published in a posthumous way. Paradisus Batavus , the description of the Botanical garden of Leyde appears in 1698. William Sherard (1659-1728), starting from her notes, makes appear Musaeum Zeylanicum (1717, republished in 1727). Carl von Linné (1707-1778) studies his collections during the drafting of its Flora Zeylanica (1747) and of Species plantarum (1753). Its collections pass between many hands before being acquired by Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820). They are preserved today at the Natural History Museum of London.
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