Genus Hugonia

Probably named after Augustus Johannes Hugo (?–1753) German physician who studied at the University of Leiden, where he obtained a PhD in medicine. His disertation, Dissertatio BotanicaIinauguralis de Variis Plantarum Methodis (1711), was published by Abraham Elzevier. His advisor on this dissertation was Herman Boerhaave. He travelled in Switzerland in 1732 with Swiss botanist and physician Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777). Linnaeus published the name Hugonia in the year Hugo died. Less likely would be Augustus Ludovicus de Hugo (1722–?), who may have been Augustus Johannes’s son, author of Dissertatio Anatomico-medica Inauguralis de Glandulis in Genere, et Speciatim de Thymo (1746), which was presided over by Professor Albrecht von Haller at the University of Göttingen.