Hendrik Engel's Alphabetical List Dutch Zoological Cabinets ... - DWC

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1033. MEY, Johan de - 2 Sept. 1617 Middelburg - 8 March 1678 Middelburg.
Clergyman; except a short intermezzo (1643-1645) when he stayed at the Isle
of St. Eustace (part of which he had bought); he was a clergyman at various
places in the Province of Zeeland and from 1649 onwards at Middelburg. In
1676 he became Prof. theol. et phil. at Middelburg. He was much interested
in natural history and medicine (dr. med. at Valence, France).
He edited the Metamorphosis Naturalis of Johannes Goedaert (q. v.) and published
on natural theology. Van der Aa XII, p. 764-768; NNBW VII, col. 873;
ADB XXI, p. 547-548; P. de la Rue 1741: Geletterd Zeeland, I, p. 99-116;
Nagtglas III, p. 158-163, 213, F .s. Bodenheimer 1928: Materialien zur Geschichte
der Entomologie bis Linne, I, p. 395.
1034. MEIJER - See also Mayer. Some Meijer 1 s could not be traced, see
Francq 1773: Sermo, p. 35.
1035. MEIJER, Christianus Paulus - died ca. 1802. Merchant in linen. Since
1762 he lived at Amsterdam, Herengracht 388, he lived there still in 1793
(Wijnman 1976, p. 530) but not longer in 1796.
Probably he is the Meijer, mentioned by Pennant (1948, p. 155, 159) living
1765 at the Herengracht. Later on he probably lived at Utrecht, anyway his
cabinet of shells, birds, mammals, insects and plants was sold there at 4
Oct. 1802 seq. Cat.: N.C. de Fremery 1802: Museum Meijerianum 176 p. (Trajecti
ad Rhenum) in Entom. Soc., in KB, Mus. Boerhaave, and in Libr. Dautzenberg
(in Mus. Roy. Nat.de Brussels, nr. 52376). Sander 1783, I, p. 565
(v. 1777): Meyer's cabinet was very elaborate, but for a part bagly ordened;
it had only little scientific interest and contained many falsifications;
Amstelodamum LX, 1973, p. 3 (v. July 1790); Houttuyn 1761-1773, XVII,
p. 121, 174, 178, 183, 279, 319, 330, 351; Pallas 1766a, p. 180, 262, 286
(saw a Gorgonia elongata, a piece of coconut with Millepora alcicornis on
it, Madrepora pileus and a Vespertilio spectrum); Pallas 1766b, p. 49; Boddaert
1768, p. XX, 224, 326, 355; Argenvi.lle 1780, p. 354; Levaillant 1799,
I, p. 36; Vosmaer 1800, p. 351, nr. 286 (earlier at Amsterdam, now in
Utrecht); Oldfield 1bomas, 1892, p. 311 note (Pallas saw Mus longipes from
Seba's collection); Jutting 1939, p. 203, 219 (see also register); Pennant
1948: Meijer possessed "a fine collection of animals in spirits, of fossils,
ores, shells and insects, also two cases full of models of mechanical rnachines";
Engel 1961, p. 130; Dance 1966, p. 83, 236; Boeseman 1970, p. 182;
Tuyn 1971, p. 181.
1036. MEYER, C. - Secretaire de la Chambre des Etats a Utrecht.
Argenville 1757, p. 149; 1780, p. 336 (sold at his death); Jutting 1939, p.
235, 236.
1037. MEYER, Cornelis - Amsterdam.
Cabinet. Boccone 1764, p. 278 (v. 1673-'74).
1038. MEIJER, Christian Gotthelff - buried 1 Oct. 1779 Amsterdam. Lived