Domingo Castillejo

Domingo Castillejo or Castillejos (died 1786) was a Spanish botanist, surgeon, and professor. From 1770 to 1786, he served as a professor of materia medica and botany at the Royal Naval College of Surgery in Cádiz, during which time his studies were devoted to the flora of the southern Iberian Peninsula.[1][2][3] Among the many positions he held during this time was Cádiz correspondent for the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid; in this position he received many new plants imported from the New World, and acclimatized them for distribution to other nurseries throughout Spain and the Canary Islands.[4]

Domingo Castillejo
Bornunknown
Lorca, Murcia, Spain
Died1786
NationalitySpanish
Scientific career
Fieldsbotany

The illustrious botanist José Celestino Mutis, a contemporary of Castillejo, named the plant genus Castilleja in his honor.[1]

Following Castillejo's death, his academic position was filled by another of his students, Francisco Arjona, who continued Castillejo's studies of the flora of the Cádiz region.[5]

References

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  1. Amaya, José Antonio (1999). "Nombres genéricos dedicados a personajes concretos por Mutis y sus colaboradores (1760-1811)". In Amaya, José Antonio; Forero, Olga Restrepo (eds.). Ciencia y Representación: Dispositivos en la construcción, la circulación y la validación del conocimiento científico (PDF) (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Programa Universitario de Investigación en Ciencia, Tecnología y Cultura. pp. 199–243. ISBN 9588051541. p.224.
  2. Cabrera Afonso, JR; Márquez Espinós, C; Fuentes Ximénez, JL (1988). "El Lorquino Domingo Castillejos y su produccion cientifica en el Real Colegio de Cirgia de Cadiz". In Valera, M; Egea, A; Blazquez, D (eds.). Actas del VIII Congreso Nacional de Historia de la Medicina (Murcia-Cartagena, 18-21 de diciembre de 1986) (in Spanish). Universidad de Murcia, Dpto. Historia de la Medicina. pp. 680–689 (vol. ii). (pp. 48–57 of PDF)
  3. Erroneous vital dates are often associated with Castillejo, perhaps following Edmund Jaeger. A Source-book of biological names and terms. third edition. 1955. page 309, where the author states that the genus Castilleia is named for "Castillio, Juan (1744-1793)" apparently confusing Castillejo with Juan Diego del Castillo
  4. Puerto Sarmiento, Francisco Javier (2007). "Jardines de aclimatación en la España de la ilustración" (PDF). Ciencias (in Spanish). 68 (October–December 2007): 30–55. Retrieved 2 November 2014. p. 33
  5. Colmeiro, Miguel (1858). La Botánica y Los Botánicos de la Península Hispano-Lusitana: Estudios bibliográficos y biográficos. M. Rivadeneyra. p. 188.


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