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Heinrich Bernhard Oldenland (1663 - c. 1697)

Botanist. Studied medicine and botany at Leiden University under Paul Herman. Arrived in Cape of Good Hope in 1688 in service of the Dutch East India Company. In 1690 the Company employed him to collect botanical specimens. James Petiver refers to him as both "Oldenland" and "Oldeland." Other biography: http://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=2062 Botanist
 Relevant locations: Birth place in Lübeck, Germany
Lived at or near Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
 Relationships: Heinrich Bernhard Oldenland was a employed by Dutch East India Company (1602-)
Heinrich Bernhard Oldenland was a associate or acquaintance (general) of Paul Herman (30 Jun 1646-29 Jan 1695)

Margaretha Hendrina van Otteren (1665-1700) was a wife of Heinrich Bernhard Oldenland
References in Documents:
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 136. Ageratum Camphoratum Cap. b. sp. Argemones folio. Tanacetum fl. luteo Camphoram redolens. Under this last name I received this Plant with many other Samples, very finely Centuria II. & III. 21 finely preserved and collected by Dr. Oldeland, a learned Physitian and very Curious Botanist, at the Cape of Good-Hope.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 147. Aster viscosus fl. luteo. D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 148. Aster fl. luteo, folio Cymbalariæ. D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 156. Calendulæ affinis seminibus membranaceis trigonis D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 160. Centaurium minus foliis Cordiformibus, D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 168. Cnicus fl. aureo lævi D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 181. Crocus flore ex cæruleo & aureo variegato. D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 182. Croco affinis flore obsoletè rubro. D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 194. Draba fl. cæruleo. D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 202. Enulæ Campanæ affinis, flore luteo. D. Oldel.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 203. Erica fl. variegato tricolori. D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 204. Erica fl. rubro. D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 207. Erysimum fl. cœruleo staminulis croceis D. Old.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 221. Genista fl. croceo lutescenti. D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 222. Genista fl. luteo. D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 223. Genista floribus minimis luteis. D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 227. Gnaphalium floribus argenteis. D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 231. Gnaphalium tomentosum fl. luteo. D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 268. Lysimachia fl. luteo tubo longissimo D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 280. Orchis flore singulari herbaceo. D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 281. Orchis referens effigiem Nudi Hominis, Coriandri odore. D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) * 282. Ornithogalo affinis radice rubicundissima floribus aureis. D. Oldeland.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 343. Alchimilla minima pubescens è Capite Bonæ Spei. This rare Plant, with many others very curiously Preserved, Madam Margaretha Hendrina van Otteren (Widow to the late most exquisite Botanist Dr. Oldenland) was pleased to send me from the Cape of Good Hope.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) In his return home, he also procured me the Remains of Dr. Oldenlands Collections at the Cape of Good Hope, with divers Reptiles, as Serpents, Lizzards, &c. from that most luxuriant Promontory.
Petiver, Musei Petiveriani (1695-1703) 21. From Madam MARGARETHA HENDRINA van OTTEREN, Widow to that late most curious Botanist and Physician Dr. OLDENLAND, at the Cape of Good Hope, I have lately received the compleat Specimens of several Plants, very finely Preserved, and many of them such as I had not seen before; so that I am extremely obliged to this so generous a Benefactress, not only for these I have already received from her (and those formerly from her Learned Husband) but also for her kind Promises, in continuing to send me over whatever Plants that Fertile Promontory produces, with such Shells, Insects, Reptiles, Fossils, &c. as are there to be got.