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3 unusual facts about Henrik Bernard Oldenland


Henrik Bernard Oldenland

After his death, Oldenland's collection was seen and admired by many visitors to the Cape, the first to mention it being Peter Kolbe who stayed at the Cape between 1705 to 1713 and published an account of this period in 1719 in Nuremberg entitled Caput Bonae Spei Hodiernum.

He arrived in the Cape Colony in 1688 in the service of the Dutch East India Company, and joined Isaq Schrijver's expedition from 4 January to 10 April of 1689.

Herbarium vivum

Henrik Bernard Oldenland, a Cape Colony botanist assembled a Herbarium vivum of some 13 volumes which found their way into the possession of Johannes Burman, professor of botany in Amsterdam.



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