Herman Gottfried Breyer
| Dr Herman Gottfried Breyer | |||||||
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| Born | 1864 | ||||||
| Died | 1923 | ||||||
| Residence | Gymnasium Box, Pretoria, South Africa | ||||||
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museum work naturalist | ||||||
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Professor of Natural History
proposed by W.L. Distant
1907.01.15 That the following more than three years in arrears should be warned that they would be struck off the list unless their arrears are paid: Dr Breyer, M. Doutté, Mr Small and Dr Waters
1908.02.25 It was resolved that the following more than three years in arrears should be struck off the list of Fellows:- Dr Breyer, Messrs Coffin, Doutté, Ditcham, Mrs Fisher, Dr Gollier, Sir C. Moloney, Messrs Pengelly, Small and Waters.
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Breijer, Herman Gottfried (1864-1923)
Dutch naturalist and museologist whose surname is given as both Breijer and Breyer. After receiving his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam, he moved to South Africa to take up a teaching position. In Pretoria he became a trustee of the newly founded Staatsmuseum (renamed the Transvaal Museum and Zoological Gardens in 1901), and served as curator until 1897. In 1913, after many years lecturing in natural science and mathematics, he was made director of the Transvaal Museum, and until his retirement in 1921 collected locally and on expeditions with original material deposited at the museum (TRV). Collections at TRV were later transferred to PRE. Cleome breyeri Burtt Davy, Disa breyeri Schltr. and Warburgia breyeri R. Pott are among the species named in his honour.
Herman Gottfried Breijer or Breyer (12 July 1864, in Arnhem – 10 October 1923, in Morgenzon, Louis Trichardt dist.) was a Dutch-born South African naturalist and museologist, the son of Carl Arnold Breijer and his wife, Elize Wesser. [1]
Breijer was educated at Amsterdam University being awarded a doctorate in mathematics and physics in 1893. [2] The same year he was appointed as lecturer at the Staatsgymnasium in Pretoria. He supported the idea of establishing a Staatsmuseum (later the Transvaal Museum) and was a trustee on its first board in 1893. He also functioned as honorary curator until 1897 when a suitable director was found. Breijer taught natural science and mathematics at the Pretoria Normal College (later the University of Pretoria) and in 1905 was appointed to the chair of mathematics at the Johannesburg School of Mines and Technology, which later became the Witwatersrand University. He remained there until 1913 when he succeeded Dr. J. W. B. Gunning as director of the Transvaal Museum. Breijer was often associated with the Dutch-born entomologist Cornelis Jacobus Swierstra (1874-1952) in his collecting done in South Africa and Mozambique, and was succeeded as director by him in 1921.[3][4] He is commemorated in Thesium breyeri, Pavetta breyeri, Blepharis breyeri and former species in Warburgia, Disa, Barleria and Cleome.
Breijer's son, J.W.F. Breijer, served with the SAP at Namutoni in South West Africa, and maintained a unique flora collection from that country.