Domingo Castillejo

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

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]

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]

  1. ^ a b 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). Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2014-11-04. (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.