![]() ![]() ![]() Illustration of durian from Herbarium Amboinense This was the name under which he was made a member by the Academia Naturae Curiosorum in Vienna in 1681. Rumphius would become known as Plinius Indicus (the Pliny of the Indies). ![]() Maetsuycker was a barrister-at-law and a patron of science. In 1666 he was appointed as "secunde" at Ambon directly under Joan Maetsuycker, the governor-general in Batavia, who would later give him dispensation from his ordinary duties to complete this study. He then started to undertake a study of the flora and fauna of these Spice Islands. He became a merchant ("koopman") in 1662. By 1657 his official title was "engineer and ensign", at which point he requested a transfer to the civilian branch of the company and became second merchant ("onderkoopman") on Hitu island, north of Ambon. He arrived in Batavia in July 1653, and proceeded to the Ambon archipelago in 1654. Perhaps through contacts of his mother's family, he enlisted with the Dutch East Indies Company (as Jeuriaen Everhard Rumpf) and left as a midshipman on 26 December 1652 aboard the ship Muyden for the Dutch East Indies. A week after his mother's funeral (20 December 1651) he left Hanau for the last time. ![]()
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