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It's difficult to talk about Peroon's life, because not much happened in it. Even the few dates we have for him are in doubt: for instance, I've gone with Isley on the year of his move to Paris; this is a convenient middle ground between the 1803 given by Dörfelt & Heklau and the 1801 given by The Dictionary of the Fungi. I'm using the birth and death dates given (and calculated) from a notice of his death given in a South African newspaper and reproduced in Lloyd; but one of Isley's sources says that there really are no trustworthy sources for those dates. He had no career. He doesn't seem to have ever held a paying job, or even to have ever sought one. I have yet to see any plausible explanation for how he managed to eat for all those years, let alone fund the publication of his books. The rest of his father's estate, by the way, went to his two sisters. Presumably they needed big chunks of cash for dowries, while Persoon was expected to make his own way. If so, his father was sadly mistaken...
or Synopsis Methodica Fungorum
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