Peder Lauridsen Kylling
Peder Lauridsen Kylling (c. 1640 – 1696) was a 17th-century Danish botanist. He was born in Assens and began studies at the University of Copenhagen in 1660. He graduated in theology in 1666 and was called as parish minister. However, for reasons now unknown, the call was withdrawn shortly afterward. Kylling then engaged in studies of botany.
His best known work is the Viridarium Danicum ("The Danish Garden"), published in 1688.[1] This work contains an alphabetic list of plant species and their places of occurrence in the crown lands of the Danish king, mainly from Zealand, but also from Jutland and Slesvig. More than 1,100 plant species were mentioned in the book. The species list was later critically reviewed by M. T. Lange.[2] Kylling is known to have worked on an enlarged edition, which however was never published. According to some sources, that manuscript was found in the library of Albrecht von Haller.
The plant genus Kyllinga (Cyperaceae) was named in his honour by Christen Friis Rottbøll.
Notes and references
- ↑ Viridarium Danicum, sive Catalogus trilingvis Latino-Danico-Germanicus plantarum indigenarum in Dania observatarum qvarum cuique suus est additus locus, qvo inprimis nascatur; nec non cuivis suum assignatum est tempus, qvands qvævis florescat, studio et cura Petri Kyllingii. Hafniæ, 1688. 174 pp.
- ↑ Lange, M. T. (1859). Om Forandringen af Danmarks Plantevæxt i de sidste to Aarhundreder [On changes in the Danish flora over the last two centuries] (in Danish). Kjøbenhavn: Jakob Lunds Forlag. p. 98.
This article is based on the account on Peder Kylling in the Danish Wikipedia.