Pieter Boddaert
{{Short description|Dutch physician and naturalist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| image = Pieter Boddaert.jpg
| birth_date = 1730
| birth_place = Middelburg, Zeeland, Dutch Republic
| death_date = 6 May {{death year and age|1795|1730}}
| death_place = Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
| fields = Physician, Natural history
| workplaces = University of Utrecht
| alma_mater = Utrecht University
-| known_for = Elenchus Animalium
| author_abbrev_zoo = Bodd.
}}
Pieter Boddaert (1730 – 6 May 1795){{cite web|author=Masi, Alberto|url=http://www.scricciolo.com/avium/autori_neornithes1.htm|title=Neornithes: nomina avium - Author A-C|publisher=Scricciolo.com|access-date=2014-02-21|archive-date=2012-02-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208104548/http://www.scricciolo.com/avium/autori_neornithes1.htm|url-status=usurped}} was a Dutch physician and naturalist.
Early life, family and education
Boddaert was the son of a Middelburg jurist and poet by the same name (1694–1760). The younger Pieter obtained his M.D. at the University of Utrecht in 1764.
Career
He became a lecturer on natural history at his alma mater, University of Utrecht. Fourteen letters survive of his correspondence with Carl Linnaeus between 1768 and 1775.{{cite web |url=http://linnaeus.c18.net/Letters/display_bio.php?id_person=833 |title=The Linnaean Correspondence - Biography |publisher=Linnaeus.c18.net |access-date=2014-02-21 |archive-date=2016-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161205085657/http://linnaeus.c18.net/Letters/display_bio.php?id_person=833 |url-status=live }} He was a friend of Albert Schlosser, whose cabinet of "curiosities" of natural history he described.
In 1783 he published 50 copies of an identification key of Edmé-Louis Daubenton's Planches enluminées, the colored plates of illustrations for the comte de Buffon's monumental Histoire Naturelle (published 1749–1789), assigning binomial scientific names to the plates.{{cite book | last=Newton | first=Alfred | author-link=Alfred Newton | year=1893–1896 | title=A Dictionary of Birds | place=London | publisher=Adam and Charles Black | page=13 Note 2 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33017353 | access-date=2023-12-31 | archive-date=2023-11-13 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231113031712/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33017353 | url-status=live }}{{ cite book | last1=Buffon | first1=Georges-Louis Leclerc de | author1-link=Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | last2=Martinet | first2=François-Nicolas | author2-link=François-Nicolas Martinet | last3=Daubenton | first3=Edme-Louis | author3-link=Edme-Louis Daubenton | last4=Daubenton | first4=Louis-Jean-Marie | author4-link=Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton | year=1765–1783 | title=Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle |language= fr| place=Paris | publisher=De L'Imprimerie Royale | doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51460 }} (10 volumes){{cite book | last=Boddaert | first=Pieter | author-link=Pieter Boddaert | year=1783 | title=Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés | url=https://archive.org/details/tabledesplanches00bodd | trans-title= Table of illuminated plates of natural history by M. D'Aubenton: with the names of M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus and Latham, preceded by a notice of the main illuminated zoological works| place=Utrecht | doi=10.5962/bhl.title.39835 | language=fr }} As many of these were the first Linnaean scientific names to be proposed, they remain in use. In 2017 the world list of birds maintained by Frank Gill and David Donsker on behalf of the International Ornithologists' Union included 190 taxa for which Boddaert is cited as the authority. Of these 112 are treated as species and 78 as subspecies. One species, the hoopoe starling, is now extinct.{{cite web | editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2016 | title=World Bird List Version 6.4 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=7 November 2017 | archive-date=4 November 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171104104657/http://www.worldbirdnames.org/ | url-status=live }}
In 1784 he published Elenchus Animalium, a "directory of animals" that included the first binomial names for a number of mammals, including the Quagga and the Tarpan.{{cite book | last=Boddaert | first=Pieter | author-link=Pieter Boddaert | year=1784 | title=Elenchus animalium | url= https://archive.org/details/pboddaertmeddoct00bodd | publisher=C.R. Hake | place=Rotterdam | language=la | doi=10.5962/bhl.title.40283 }}
Honors and awards
Boddaert is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of South American snake, Mastigodryas boddaerti.{{cite encyclopedia| last1= Beolens| first1= Bo| last2= Watkins| first2= Michael| last3= Grayson| first3= Michael |year= 2011| section= Boddaert| page= 29| title= The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles| place= Baltimore| publisher= Johns Hopkins University Press |isbn= 978-1-4214-0135-5}}
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Category:18th-century Dutch naturalists
Category:People from Middelburg, Zeeland
Category:Utrecht University alumni
Category:Academic staff of Utrecht University
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