Georg Eberhard Rumphius
German-Dutch merchant, naturalist and botanist (1627-1702) · Scientists · Died at 75
Georg Eberhard Rumphius was a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company in what is now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his work, Herbarium Amboinense, produced in the face of severe personal tragedies, including the death of his wife and a daughter in an earthquake, going blind from...
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Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627-1702), the only portrait of him made by his son Paul Augustus around 1695-96
Memorial plaque in Wölfersheim in Hesse, Germany
Rumphius's Ambon house in the 1910s
Illustration of durian from Herbarium Amboinense
Wreath laid at the Rumphius memorial on Ambon (c. 1930)
Illustration of critique of D'Amboinische Rariteitkamer... published in Acta Eruditorum, 1706
The coconut crab illustrated in D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer
Frontispiece of the 1705 first edition of D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer ("Amboinese Cabinet of Curiosities")About this person
Georg Eberhard Rumphius was a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company in what is now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his work, Herbarium Amboinense, produced in the face of severe personal tragedies, including the death of his wife and a daughter in an earthquake, going blind from glaucoma, loss of his library and manuscripts in major fire, and losing early copies of his book when the ship carrying it was sunk.
