François, Franciscus, or Frans Kiggelaer (baptized 4 December 1648, in

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– buried 22 December 1722, in

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)D. O. Wijnands
The Botany of the Commelins
A.A. Balekma, Rotterdam, 1983, pp210-11 was a Dutch botanist, apothecary and curator of the garden of Simon van Beaumont in

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. In 1690, he published a plant catalogue of this garden under the title "''Horti Beaumontiani: Exoticarum Plantarum Catalogus ...''". He collaborated with Frederik Ruysch on the first volume of Jan Commelijn's "''Horti Medici Amstelodamensis Rariorum''" which appeared in 1697 and dealt mainly with plants from the

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and

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. This was an illustrated account, with text in Dutch and Latin, of the plants growing in van Beaumont's garden. Watercolours of 420 plants were prepared during the period 1686–1709 by a number of artists, mainly Johan and Maria Moninckx, with minor contributions from Helena Herolt and Alida Withoos.

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

named the genus ''

Kiggelaria ''Kiggelaria africana'' (also known as the wild peach or umKokoko) is a large, robust, low-branching African tree, and is currently the only accepted species in the genus ''Kiggelaria''. Despite its common name, ''Kiggelaria africana'' is not re ...

'', belonging to

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, in his honour.

Publications

*''Horti medici amstelodamensis rariorum tam Orientalis :quam Occidentalis Indiæ, aliarumque peregrinarum plantarum, magno studio ac labore, sumptibus Civitatis amstelodamensis, longâ annorum serie collectarum, descriptio et icones ad vivum æri incisæ /auctore Joanne Commelino. Opus posthumum, latinitate donatum, notisque & observationibus illustratum, à Frederico Ruyschio & Francisco Kiggelario''.

References

External links

University of Amsterdam site
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