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Karel Heyne (1877–1947) was a Dutch
Karel Heyne (1877–1947) was a Dutch botanist
Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...
, known for his comprehensive handbook on the useful plants of the Dutch East Indies
The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies (; ), was a Dutch Empire, Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, declared independence on 17 Au ...
('' The useful plants of the Dutch East Indies''); this was the first such handbook and became a standard reference. (in Dutch)
Towards the end of the 19th century he settled on Java
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in the former Dutch East Indies
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. In 1900, at the age of 23, he started working for the Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij (KPM). He married Wilhelmina Louise Visser (1871–1913) in 1903 and they had two sons, the first in 1905 and the second in 1906. In January 1906, Heyne was appointed chief curator of the ''Museum voor Economische Botanie'' (Museum of Economic Botany) in Buitenzorg
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by Melchior Treub, the then director of 's Lands Plantentuin in Buitenzorg. In January 1920 he married Ida van Oorschot (1875–1957). In 1926, Heyne resigned as curator and in April 1927 he repatriated to the Netherlands. He and his wife went to live in Bennekom, where he bought a large house.
Selected publications
* Heyne, K. 1907–1926. ''Jaarboek Departement van Landbouw, Handel en Nijverheid''. * * * * * *Eponyms
* (Zingiberaceae
Zingiberaceae () or the ginger family is a family of flowering plants made up of about 50 genera with a total of about 1600 known species of aromatic perennial herbs with creeping horizontal or tuberous rhizomes distributed throughout tropical ...
) ''Curcuma
''Curcuma'' () is a genus of plants in the ginger family Zingiberaceae that contains such species as turmeric and Siam tulip. They are native to Southeast Asia, southern China, the Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea and northern Australia. Some spe ...
heyneana'' Valeton & Zijp
* (Zingiberaceae) '' Phaeomeria heyneana'' (Valeton) Burkill
* (Apocynaceae
Apocynaceae (, from '' Apocynum'', Greek for "dog-away") is a family of flowering plants that includes trees, shrubs, herbs, stem succulents, and vines, commonly known as the dogbane family, because some taxa were used as dog poison. Notable mem ...
) '' Heynella lactea''
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