Catharina Helena Dörrien

Catharina Helena Dörrien
Born 1 March 1717
Hildesheim
Died 8 June 1795
Dillenburg
Scientific career
Fields Botany

Catharina Helena Dörrien (b. 1 March 1717 in Hildesheim, d. 8 June 1795 in Dillenburg) was a German botanist and teacher, recognized as "the most celebrated German-speaking female naturalist of the period".[1][2] She was a talented artist who painted over 1,400 watercolor botanical illustrations, and published a catalog of plants of the Principality of Orange-Nassau in 1777.[3] She was also the first woman to name a fungal taxon.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Phillips, Denise (4 June 2012). Acolytes of Nature: Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770-1850. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 69. ISBN 9780226667379. Retrieved 31 July 2018. The one female member [of the Soceity of Nature-Researching Friends] of bourgeois origin was also the most celebrated German-speaking female naturalist of the period. Catharina Helena Dörrien was a gifted flower painter and author of a well-received flora of Nassau.
  2. ↑ DeBakcsy, Dale. "How 18th Century Botanist Catharina Helena Dorrien Created Girls' Science Education". Women You Should Know. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Geller-Grimm, Fritz. "Catharina Helena Dörrien (1717-1795)". Museum Wiesbaden Natural History State Collection. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  4. ↑ Maroske, Sara; May, Tom W. (March 2018). "Naming names: the first women taxonomists in mycology". Studies in Mycology. 89: 63–84. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2017.12.001. Retrieved 31 July 2018.

Further reading

  • Viereck, Regina. (2000). Zwar sind es weiblich Hände: Die Botanikerin und Pädagogin Catharina Helena Dörrien (in German). ISBN 9783593365800


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