David van Royen (30 December 1727 – 29 April 1799) was a Dutch physician and botanist who worked at the Leiden Botanical Gardens where he succeeded his uncle

Adriaan van Royen Adriaan van Royen (11 November 1704 in Leiden – 28 February 1779 in Leiden) was a Dutch botanist. He was a professor at Leiden University and is associated with Carl Linnaeus. He is best known for his work on flora of Southeast Asia. Adr ...

(1704-1779) as director. Van Royen was born in an upper-class family in

Leiden Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wit ...

where his father David van Royen (1699–1764 ) was a well-known jurist and administrator. He studied medicine and became a physician in 1752. He published a book, ''Oratio de hortis publicis præstantissimis scientiae botanicae adminiculis'' in 1754. and became a professor of botany and director of the Hortus botanicus at Leiden in the same year. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1752. He greatly added to the herbarium collections and the Van Royen Herbarium has been considered important for taxonomic purposes as it includes numerous types. He was a correspondent of

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

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