Background
Boddaert was the son of a Middelburg jurist and poet by the same name (1694–1760).
biologist Ichthyologist naturalist ornithologist physician professor Zoologist
Boddaert was the son of a Middelburg jurist and poet by the same name (1694–1760).
Utrecht University.
The younger Pieter obtained his Doctor of Medicine at the University of Utrecht in 1764 and there became a lecturer on natural history. Fourteen letters survive of his correspondence with Carl Linnaeus between 1768 and 1775. In 1783 he published fifty copies of an identification key of Edmé-Louis Daubenton"s Planches enluminées, the colored plates of illustrations for the comte de Buffon"s monumental Histoire Naturelle (published 1749-1789), assigning binomial scientific names to the plates.
As many of these were the first Linnaean scientific names to be proposed, they remain in use.
In 1785 he published Elenchus Animalium, a "directory of animals" that included the first binomial names for a number of mammals, including the Quagga and the Tarpan.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.