August Carl Joseph Corda

August Karl Joseph Corda ( born October 22, 1809 in Reichenberg in Bohemia; perished † September 1849 in the Atlantic Ocean, on returning from a research trip with the ship Victoria ) was an Austro- Hungarian botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Corda ".

Life and work

Corda already operating as an act apprentice in Prague with a preference of natural history studies. Drawn Due to its Monographia Rhizospermarum et Hepaticarum (issue 1, Prague 1829) by Alexander von Humboldt in Berlin, he worked here with botanical, including microscopic examinations and was appointed in 1834 curator of the zoological department of the Patriotic Museum in Prague. In 1835 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina.

In 1847 he undertook a research trip to Texas. At sea, he met his death on the way back in September 1849.

Corda was one of the first botanists who studied fossil plants in relation to their anatomical structure more accurately. He published with excellent illustrations and equipped for the customer of the cryptogams most significant works of splendor:

• Icones Fungorum hucusque cognitorum ( Prague 1837-1854, 6 vols ) and
• Splendor Flora European mold formations ( Leipzig 1839; French, das. 1840).

He also wrote:

• Contributions to the flora of the ancient world ( Prague 1845) and
• Guide to the study of Mycology ( Prague 1842)

He also edited the sponges and fungi for storm Germany flora as well as the sketches for comparative anatomy before and now secular Plants tribes in the 2nd volume of the flora of the ancient world by Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (ibid. 1838).