Justus Carl Hasskarl

Justus Karl Haßkarl (December 6, 1811 in Kassel, † January 5, 1894 in Kleve ) was a German traveler and naturalist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Hassk. ".

Life and work

Haßkarl learned since 1827, the nursery in Poppelsdorf and devoted himself since 1834 natural history studies in Bonn to prepare for scientific trips. In 1836 he went to Java, was the scientific director of the botanical garden at Buitenzorg ( Bogor ) and made many trips and journeys into the interior of the country. He returned in 1846 to return home and took to the Secretariat of the Chamber of Commerce in Dusseldorf.

In 1852 he was commissioned by the Dutch government to Lima and in the spring of 1853 into the interior of Peru to settle the China bark tree in Java. He sent seeds of Uchubamba to Holland, and in 1854 he reached with about 500 young cinchona calisaya - China trees from near the Brasilian border east from Lake Titicaca the coast. His return was like a escape because the real purpose of his trip had become known. Upon his arrival in Java, he immediately initiated the culture of China trees, but had to return in 1856 his health 's sake to Europe and took his leave from the Dutch civil service.

Last residing in Kleve to Haßkarl employs notably the East Indian flora; He also participated in the botanical part of Peter 's work on Mozambique and examined and described the Commelinaceae Georg Schweinfurth 's collection of Abyssinian plants. He obtained also the German editions of some works Franz Wilhelm Jung chicken and the translation of Alfred Whaley Cole's work. He worked several families in the Plantae Junghuhnianae (Leiden 1851-52 ).

Ehrentaxon

He was the genus Hasskarlia Baill honor. the plant family Euphorbiaceae ( Euphorbiaceae ) named.

Works

  • Catalogus Plantarum in Horto Botanico Bogoriensi cultarum old country - Printing ( Batavia 1844)
  • Filices javanicae ( Batavia 1856);
  • Retzia observationes Botanicae de plantis horti botanici Bogoriensis (Leiden 1856);
  • Hortus Bogoriensis descr. seu Retziae editio nova (Part 1, Amsterdam 1858, Part 2 in Bonplandia 1859).
  • New Key to Rumphs Herbarium amboinense (Hall 1866);
  • Horti malabarici Rheedeani clavis locupletissima (Dresden 1867)
  • Commelinaceae indicae (Vienna, 1870).

Translations

  • Plantae javanicae rariores (Berlin 1847)
  • Alfred Whaley Cole: The Cape and the Kaffirs or messages about my five -year stay in South Africa: With the portraits. the Kaffir chief Macomo. Leipzig: Arnold, 1852.
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