Karl Rechinger

Karl Josef Titus Rechinger ( born April 9, 1867 in Vienna, † November 29, 1952 ) was an Austrian botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Rech ".

Life

Rechinger studied at the University of Vienna under Julius von Wiesner Botany and graduated in 1893 with a doctorate from. He worked from 1893 to 1902 as assistant to the Botanical Department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Until 1922 he worked as a curator in the farm museum.

In 1905 he undertook with his wife Lily Rechinger - FAVARGER ( 1880-1973 ) a research trip to the South Seas. They visited, among others, the South Sandwich Islands, Samoa and New Guinea.

Rechinger was buried at Vienna's Central Cemetery. His son Karl Heinz Rechinger was also a botanist.

Works

  • Studies on the limits of divisibility in the vegetable kingdom (1893 )
  • German New Guinea. Forays into German New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. A botanical expedition (1908 )
  • Botanical and zoological results of a scientific research trip to the Samoan Islands, New Guinea Archipelago and the Solomon Islands (1908-1915)

Evidence

  • Ilse Jahn (ed.): History of biology. Oxford University Press, 2000, ISBN 3827410231, p 934
  • Biography Nationalherbarium in the Netherlands, online
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