page_title: Cornelis Andries Backer
section_title: Weltevreden
hierarchical_section_title: Cornelis Andries Backer / Biography / Dutch East Indies (1901–1930) / Weltevreden
caption_attribution_description: English: Botanical Gardens at Buitenzorg Nederlands: Foto. 's Lands Plantentuin, Buitenzorg
context_page_description: Cornelis Andries Backer was a Dutch botanist and pteridologist. He was born on 18 September 1874 in Oudenbosch and died on 22 February 1963 at Heemstede, The Netherlands. He stayed thirty years in the Dutch East Indies and did research on plant taxonomy on the islands of Java and Madura.
context_section_description: In 1901 Backer left the Netherlands and went to the Dutch East Indies. Between 1901 and 1905 he was employed as a primary school teacher at a private boarding school in Weltevreden (Batavia), (now Gambir, the centre of Jakarta in Java. Immediately he started to collect the plants around him, but to name them unreliable or incomplete treatises had been written, now also outdated and often not readily available. Thus, he decided to write one himself, with the flora of his immediate surroundings as a start, and this marked a milestone in his life and for Malesian botany.
caption: ’s Lands Plantentuin in Buitenzorg (1910)
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