João de Loureiro

Homalium cochinchinensis (Lour.) Druce, first described by Loureiro as Astranthus cochinchinensis Lour.

João de Loureiro (1717, Lisbon – 18 October 1791) was a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and botanist. [1]

Biography

After receiving admission to the Jesuit Order, João de Loureiro served as a missionary in Goa, capital of Portuguese India (3 years) and Macau (4 years). In 1742 he traveled to Đàng Trong (known to the Europeans as Cochinchina), remaining there for 35 years. Here he worked as a mathematician and naturalist for the king of Đàng Trong,[2] acquiring knowledge on the properties and uses of native medicinal plants. In 1777, he journeyed to Canton, in Bengal, returning to Lisbon four years later.[3] During this period, Captain Thomas Riddel gave Loureiro the books Systema Naturae, Genera Plantarum and Philosophia Botanica by Carl Linnaeus, which greatly influenced the Portuguese botanist.[4]

João de Loureiro stayed in Vietnam forty years inventorying indigenous herbal remedies. His local garden contained 1,000 unique herbal species, making it one of the greatest botanist collectors of the 18th century.[2]

João de Loureiro published the book Flora Cochinchinensis 1790, sponsored by the Royal Portuguese Academy of Sciences.[4] João de Loureiro has numerous species dedicated to him by the epitheton "loureiroi" , mostly plants but also a dinosaur Draconyx loureiroi in honour of his being the first Portuguese palaeontologist.[5]

The taxonomist Elmer Drew Merrill later argued that Loureiro's work contained various mistakes caused by a misunderstanding of the Linnaean system.[4]

Standard author abbreviation

The standard author abbreviation Lour. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

Works

Flora Cochinchinensis.
  • Flora Cochinchinensis: sistens plantas in regno Cochinchina nascentes: quibus accedunt aliae observatae in Sinensi imperio, Africa orientali, Indiaeque locis variis: omnes dispositae secundum systema sexuale Linnaeanum
  • Flora Cochinchinensis […] denuo in Germania edita, notes by Carl Ludwig Willdenow, 1793
  • « On the nature and mode of production of Agallochum or aloes-wood », translated from Portuguese into English, in Tracts relative to botany, tr. from different languages, London, Phillips and Fardon […], 1805

Bibliography

  • Pe. João de Loureiro : missionário e botânico by José Maria Braga, 1938.[7]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to João de Loureiro.
  1. ^ "NATURALMENTE scienza - Padre Loureiro e la flora della Cocincina".
  2. ^ a b John W. O'Malley & al (1 January 1999). The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773, Volume 1. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802042873.
  3. ^ Merrill, E. D. (1933). "Loureiro and His Botanical Work". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 72 (4): 229–239. JSTOR 984687.
  4. ^ a b c Britt-Louise Gunnarsson (28 October 2011). Languages of Science in the Eighteenth Century. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110255065.
  5. ^ Mateus, O. and Antunes, M.T., 2001, January. Draconyx loureiroi, a new camptosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Late Jurassic of Lourinhã, Portugal. In Annales de paléontologie (Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 61-73). Elsevier Masson.
  6. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Lour.
  7. ^ WorldCat Titles Pe. João de Loureiro, etc.


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