page_title: Georg Eberhard Rumphius
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Georg Eberhard Rumphius / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: The cover of D’Amboinense Rariteikamer, taken at the Indonesian Museum of Ethnobotany. Published in 1704, tbook consisted mainly of plates of seashells and crabs in Ambon, Moluccas, Indonesia.
context_page_description: Georg Eberhard Rumphius was a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company in what is now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his work Herbarium Amboinense produced in the face of severe personal tragedies, including the death of his wife and a daughter in an earthquake, going blind from glaucoma, loss of his library and manuscripts in major fire, and losing early copies of his book when the ship carrying it was sunk. In addition to his major contributions to plant systematics, he is also remembered for his skills as an ethnographer and his frequent defense of Ambonese peoples against colonialism.
context_section_description: Herbarium Amboinense. 1741.
  D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer (Amboina Curiosity Cabinet,  1705)
  Amboinsche Historie (Amboina History)
  Amboinsche Lant-beschrijvinge (a social geography)
  Amboinsch Dierboek (Amboina animal book, lost)
caption: The cover of D’Amboinense Rariteikamer which published in 1704.
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