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Germany) -Aug. 1644 San Paolo de Luanda (Angola). German physician, naturalist,
astronomer and mathematician. Markgraf matriculated 11 Sept. 1636 at
Leiden University. He took part in a military and exploratory expedition to
the Dutch settlements in Brasil under the leadership of Count Maurice of Nasau
(q.v.) 1638-1644.
During this expedition he explored such divers fields as zoology, botany,
astronomy, cartography, meteorology and perhaps anthropology. He assembled
zoological and botanical collections. Markgraf drew up the plans for a new
town and its fortifications in the vicinity of the castle "Vrijburg" on the
island of Antonio Vaz. In the park of Vrijburg castle was a botanical and
zoological garden. He gave his collections and manuscripts into the keeping
of Maurice of Nassau. Dried specimens of the plants introduced by Markgraf
into the Vrijburg park are now in the Botanical Museum, Copenhagen. The "Li.ber
principis", the collection of his watercolors, was in the Preussi.sche
Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, until 1945. Many of his drawings and notes were
added to Jan de Laet, ed.: Historiae naturalis Brasiliae (1648). The "De India
utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim" by Willem Pies (William
Piso), director of the research staff of the expedition, jumbles Markgraf's
and Pies' observations. H. Lichtenstein: Die Werke von Marcgrave und
Piso uber die Naturgeschi.chte Brasiliens, erlautert aus den wideraufgefundenen
Originalzeichnungen, in: Abhandl. Preuss. Akad. Wissensch., Physik. Abhandl.
for 1814-1815 (1818), p. 201-222; for 1817 (1819), p. 155-178; for
1820-1821 (1823), p. 237-254, 267-288; and for 1826 (1829), p. 49-65; A.
Schneider 1938: Die Vogelbilder zur Historia Natura lis Brasiliae des Georg
Marcgrave, in: J. f. Ornithol. LXXXVI, p. 74-106; D. de Moulin 1976: Medizin
und Naturwissenschaft in Brasilien zur Zeit der Verwaltung des Grafen Johann
Moritz von Nassau··Siegen, in: Medizinhist. J. XI, p. 44-51. P.J.P. Whitehead
1976: The original drawings for the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae of Piso and
Marcgrave (1648), in: J. Soc. Bibl. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 409- 422. ADB 1884,
XX, p. 337-338; DSB IX, p. 122-123. E,W, Gudger 1912: George Marcgrave, the
first student of American natural history, in: Pop. Sc. Monthly, p. 250-274;
P.J.P. Whitehead 1979: The biography of Georg Marcgraf by his brother Christian,
translated by James Petiver, in: J. Soc, Bibl. Nat. Hist. IX, p. 301-
314 (bibl.).
988. MARLE, Johann Gottlieb van - 28 May 1901 - 22 May 1979 Bussum. International
businessman (sugar and cocoa). Honorary cooperator at the Zool.
Mus. Amsterdam.
Together with his cousin J,A. van Sillem (q.v,) he collected birds. In 1922
he took over the bird collection of Snouckaert van Schauburg (q.v.) to which
he added the birds, collected by J.A. van Sillen at the Karakorum expedition.
TI1e collection (ca. 8,800 specimens) came in the Zool. Mus. Amsterdam.
K.H. Voous 1977: J,G, van Marle, erelid Club van Nederlandse Vogelkundigen,
in: Limosa, L, p. 63-66.
989. MARNE, de (Hunsingo, Prov. Groningen) - See Wehe and Uilkens.