Jan Valckenier Suringar (24 December 1864, 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 ...

– 17 October 1932) was a Dutch

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

. His surname is spelled "Valckenier Suringar" with the name "Valckenier" being his mother's maiden name. He was the son of botanist

Willem Frederik Reinier Suringar Willem Frederik Reinier Suringar (28 December 1832, Leeuwarden – 12 July 1898, Leiden) was a Dutch botanist. His son, Jan Valckenier Suringar (1864–1932), was also a botanist. In 1857 he obtained his PhD from the University of Leiden, where ...

1832–1898. From 1896 to 1899 he worked in the Leiden '' Rijksherbarium'', and in the meantime obtained his doctoral degree at the University of Leiden in 1898. He later taught classes at the agricultural, horticultural and forestry school in

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and in 1900 he became director of the Wageningen botanical garden. From 1918 to 1924 he was a professor of dendrology at the newly founded agricultural university in Wageningen.

Published works

Among his writings was a 1908 biography of

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titled ''Linnaeus''. He was also the author of the following works: * ''Musée botanique de Leide'', (1871–1897); with W. F. R. Suringar and Melchior Treub – The botanical museum at Leiden. * ''Het geslacht Cyperus (sensu amplo) in den Maleischen Archipel benevens een overzicht van de geschiedenis der systematiek van de familie der cyperaceen''. (1898) – On '' Cyperus'' in the

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, in addition to an overview to the history of systematics of the family

Cyperaceae The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus ''Carex'' w ...

. * ''Contributions à l'étude des espèces du genre Melocactus des Indes néerlandaises occidentales'', 1901 – Contributions to the study of species within the genus ''

Melocactus ''Melocactus'' (melon cactus), also known as the Turk's cap cactus, is a genus of cactus with about 30–40 species. They are native to the Caribbean, western Mexico through Central America to northern South America, with some species along the A ...

'' from the Dutch West Indies.Catalog HathitTrust
published works

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Valckenier Suringar, Jan 1864 births 1932 deaths People from Leiden 19th-century Dutch botanists 20th-century Dutch botanists Dendrologists Academic staff of Wageningen University and Research