Education
University of Harderwijk.
University of Harderwijk.
He was professor at the University of Harderwijk and royal physician to Empress Elizabeth of Russia. Later, Linnaeus named the plant genus Gorteria after David de Gorter and his father, the physician Johannes de Gorter. In Street St. Petersburg, de Gorter edited and published Krasheninnikov"s last work, Flora Ingrica.
He authored one of the first floras to use binomial nomenclature, Flora Belgica from 1767.
After his death, she donated his herbarium to the Academy in Harderwijk. lieutenant now is kept at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands.
De Gorter spent his last years in Zutphen, where he wrote his Flora of the Seven Provinces. The Dutch botanical journal "Gorteria is named to his honour.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Royal Society; Russian Academy of Sciences. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]
He was a member of Imperial Academy of Sciences in Street St. Petersburg, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and other academies and learned societies.