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Paul Herman (30 Jun 1646 - 29 Jan 1695)

German-born physician and botanist and director of the botanical garden at University of Leiden. Identified in Phil. Trans. (1683) as Dr. P. Herman, Professor at Leiden (vol. 13, no. 145, p. 103). Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hermann_(botanist) Botanist
 Relevant locations: Birth place in Germany, Europe
Workplace or place of business Leiden University, Leiden
 Relationships: Paul Herman was a friend of James Petiver (c. 1665-Apr 1718)

Madam Herman (-) was a wife of Paul Herman
Heinrich Bernhard Oldenland (1663-c. 1697) was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Paul Herman
Linked print sources: as Mentioned or referenced by - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
 References in Documents:
MS Book of the Regius Professor of Medicine (MacGregor, ed.) Hermann
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 36. Baccifera aromatica, arbor Zeylanica Peromalla dicta. The aromatick Peromalla of Zeylon. This I received from our much lamented Friend Dr. Herman, late Professor of Botany at Leyden in Holland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 39. Bombu arbor Zeylanica cujus folia Tinctoribus inserviunt. The Zeylon Bombu, or Dying=Tree. This I received, the last Year, from Dr. Herman.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 625. Capparis Zeylanica duplicatis spinis folio acuto. This Dr. Herman sent from Zeylon to that incomparable Botanist Jacobus Breynius, from whom I had it.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 657. Lychnis Indica Gentianæ foliis Febrifuga. Giritilla Zeylonensibus. Under this name Dr. Herman, that incomparable Botanist gave this Plant to Dr. Lecaan from whom I had it.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 672. Prunus racemosa Celastri folio. Weralu Zeylonensibus. We are obliged to Dr. Herman, that worthy Botanist for the knowledge of this Tree.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) 3. Zerumbet Officinarum Dale Pharmac. p. 366. 9. Father Camel (from whom I had this accurate design) called this Zerumbeth, and others the Red Ginger of Ternate, by the Indians Pangasam and Banglay. The Malabar Wild Ginger, Hort. Malab. Vol. xi. Tab. 13. p. 27. and that of Zeylon, which is accurately described and Figured by Dr Harman in his Hort. Lugd. Bat. p. 637. who makes it the Zerumbet of Garcias, 1. 1. c. 43. seem to be the same Plant with this, or very near of kin. See a large Description of this, with its many Uses, great Vertues, &c. in the Appendix to Mr Ray’s 3d Volume of Plants.
Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669) 19. Attrummaphoe, Boyl'd and drank, causeth the great sort of Pox to Skin and dry. Mr. J. S. The Juice of this Weed being snuft up the Nose, is good to make one sneeze. Mr. Edward Bartar. Of the Decoction of this Plant, is made a Drink good against the Phrensy. Hort. Malab. Colutea languinosa Floribus parvis siliquis pilosis deorsum tendentibus Mus. Petiver. 45. Orientalis plerumque heptaphyllos hirsuta, floribus spicatis saturate purpureis, siliquis plurimis quadratis valde pilosis summo succulorum dependentibus. Alm. Botan. p. 113. It was called by Dr. Herman (that late incomparable Botanist) Astragalus Indicus spicatus si liquis copiosis deorsum spectantibus non falcatis seu Polylobos. And by the Inhabitants of Ceylon Pilæghas, as Joannes Comelinus asserts, in his Commentaries on the Hortus Malabaricus, in the Ninth Volume of which noble Herbal there is an Icon of this Plant, under the Name of Katu (which signifies Sylvestris or wild) Tagera, Tab. 30. p. 55. Whose Description of it I shall briefly transcribe and intersperse my own Observations concerning it. It grows in sandy Places, about Two or Three Foot high; the Roots fibrose and whitish; its Stalks woody, redish, and very hairy; the Leaves grow by Pairs, with one at the Extremity having Three or Five (I have Samples of it with Seven or more) covered on both sides with a soft woolliness (which are not exprest in the Figure, the like Omission I find in many others in this Work, whose Leaves, &c. are delineated smooth, although the Description and things themselves declare them otherwise) they have an astringent Tast, and are somewhat biting. It hath many small deep Purple Papilionaceous Flowers growing in a Spike to the top (of a Leafless Stalk;) its Calyx is composed of Six very narrow Hairy Leaves, the Pods are also very hairy, roundish, but not thicker than (682) a Packthread ¼ of an Inch long hanging downwards on short (or rather no) Footstalks; the Seeds are small, lye length ways in the Pod, and are separated by a (thin) Partition.
Selections from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1665-1669) 36. Dr. Herman's Virginiana Wild Basil with yellow H. A. L. Bat. 107. Ray H. Pl. 1927. Pluk. 24. Fig. 1. Alm. Bot. 111. Flowers.  Clinopodium Virginianum angustifolium flore luteo D. de Marees H. A. L. Bat. 107. Virg. angustif. florbus amplis luteis purpureo maculatis, cujus caulis sub quovis verticillo 10 vel 12 foliolis rubentibus est circumcinctus D. Banister ( 403 ) Alm. Bot. 111. Virg. angust. flor. amplis luteis, punctis purpureis Pluk. Tab. 24. Fig. 1.  Origanum floribus amplis luteis purpureo maculatis, cujus caulis sub quovis verticillo 10. vel 12. foliis est circumcinctus D. Banister Raii H. Pl. 1927.