Rudolf Jakob Camerarius
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Rudolf Jakob Camerarius | |
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Born | |
Died | 11 September 1721 Tübingen, Holy Roman Empire | (aged 56)
Other names | Camerer |
Known for | Investigations on the reproductive organs of plants (De sexu plantarum epistola) |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Botanist and physician |
Doctoral advisor | Elias Rudolph Camerarius Sr. Georg Balthasar Metzger |
Doctoral students | Johann Andreas Planer |
Rudolf Jakob Camerarius or Camerer (12 February 1665 – 11 September 1721) was a German botanist and physician.
Life
Camerarius was born at Tübingen, and became professor of medicine and director of the botanical gardens at Tübingen in 1687. He is chiefly known for his investigations on the reproductive organs of plants (De sexu plantarum epistola (1694)).[1]
While other botanists, such as John Ray and Nehemiah Grew, had observed that plants seemed to have sex in some form, and guessed that pollen was the male fertilizing agent, it was Camerarius who did experimental work. In studying the mulberry, he determined that female plants not near to male (staminate) plants produced fruit but with no seeds. Mercurialis and spinach plants fared likewise. With the castor oil plant (Ricinus) and with maize he cut off the staminate flowers (the "tassels" of maize), and likewise observed that no seeds formed. His results were reported in the form of a letter (the epistola), and attracted immediate attention, subsequent workers extending his results from the monoecious plants he had studied to dioecious ones as well.
Works
- De plantis vernis (in Latin). Tübingen: Martin Rommey. 1688.
- De sexu plantarum (in Latin). Tübingen: Martin Rommey. 1694.
Notes
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Camerarius, Rudolf Jakob". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 108. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Duane Isely, One hundred and one botanists (Iowa State University Press, 1994), pp. 74–76
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- 1665 births
- 1721 deaths
- Scientists from Tübingen
- 17th-century German botanists
- German entomologists
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- 18th-century German physicians
- Pre-Linnaean botanists
- 18th-century German botanists