Petrus Houttuyn (18 June 1648,

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– 10 January 1709,

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), often cited as Peter Hotton, was a

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botanist and medical professor of medicine and

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. As professor of botany, he was ex officio supervisor of the university's botanic garden and was given an official residence and an allowance for foreign correspondence and the exchange of seeds and plants. He studied medicine in

, obtaining his doctor's degree in 1672. In 1695 he succeeded Paul Hermann as professor of botany at the

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. Houttuyn was a member of the

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and a fellow of the

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. He was succeeded in turn by

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. The genus ''

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'' (family

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) is named in his honor.

Selected works

* ''Positiones quaedam medicae'', 1672. * ''Sermo academicus quo rei herbariae historia et fata adumbrantur'', 1695. * Letter from Petrus Hotton (1648-1709), 1704. * ''Bibliotheca Hottoniana: sive Catalogus Librorum'', 1709.WorldCat Identities
Most widely held works by Petrus Hotton

References

*Horn, W. & Kahle, I. & Friese, G. & Gaedike, R. (1990)''Collectiones entomologicae. Eine Kompendium über den Verbleib entomologischer Sammlungen der Welt bis 1960''. Berlin: Akadademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. *''Dictionnaire des sciences médicales''. Biographie médicale. Bd. 5 Paris, 1822. 1648 births 1709 deaths 17th-century Dutch botanists Dutch entomologists Leiden University alumni Academic staff of Leiden University Physicians from Amsterdam Scientists from Amsterdam Fellows of the Royal Society {{Netherlands-botanist-stub