Hendrik van Rijgersma

Hendrik Elingsz van Rijgersma (born 5 January 1835 in Lemmer, Province of Friesland, the Netherlands, died 4 March 1877 in St. Martin) was a Dutch naturalist, physician, amateur botanist, malacologist and ichthyologist.

Rijgersma became a physician in 1858, and practiced medicine in the small town of Jisp and on the island of Marken.

There he collected many fossils, plants, birds, reptiles, fishes, mollusks, crustaceans and insects.

Hendrik van Rijgersma was an excellent painter and left to posterity many, mostly unpublished, drawings, sketches and water colors of plants, shells and other subjects.

In the Swedish Museum of Natural History, there are 129 plants collected by van Rijgersma, of which 74 have illustrations.