Pál Kitaibel

Pál Kitaibel (also Paul Kitaibel or Paul Kitaibelius; born February 3, 1757 Matter castle, † December 13, 1817 in Budapest) was a Hungarian botanist, physician and chemist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Kit. ".

Career

Kitaibel attended high school in Sopron ( Sopron ), the Lyceum in Györ ( Raab ) and went in 1780 to the University on the furnace to eventually study medicine after unsuccessful attempts in the subjects of law and theology. Furthermore, he studied chemistry and botany. After the death of his patron Professor Johann Jakob Winterl in 1809 Kitaibel took over his chair and taught these two disciplines 1794 in Pest, where he was also director of the botanical garden.

In the period 1795-1815 he studied a total of 16 trips through Hungary, the plant world. During his investigations of researchers working in an interdisciplinary, giving him the name of a "homo universalis of science" earned in Hungary. After great suffering he died on 13 December 1817.

Apart from work on the flora and the hydrography of Hungary, he discovered the tellurium almost simultaneously with Franz Joseph Müller von Hory ( 1740-1825 ). The plant genus Kitaibelia Willd. has been named after him.

Works

• Together with Franz Adam von Waldstein (1759-1823), he is the main author of Francisci comitis Waldstein: Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae (MA Schmidt, Vienna, three volumes from 1802 to 1812, folio ( 465 × 332 mm ) ).
• Hydrographica Hungariae. Praemissa auctoris vita. Edidit Joannes Schuster. Pest, J. M. Trattner de Petróza, in 1829. 2 levels.
• Short analysis of the Szalatnyaer mineral water.