August Schenk

August Joseph Schenk ( born April 17, 1815 in Hallein, † March 30, 1891 in Leipzig ) was a German botanist and paleontologist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Schenk ".

Schenk studied in Munich, Erlangen, Berlin and Vienna Science and Medicine, habilitated in 1841 as Associate Professor of Botany, first in Munich, then in Würzburg; where he was Professor of Botany in 1845. In 1868 he was appointed professor at the University of Leipzig, where he also headed the Botanical Gardens. In 1887 he retired.

Writings

• On the occurrence of contractile cells in the plant kingdom ( Würzb. 1858)
• Algologische messages ( in the "Proceedings of the Physico- Medical Society of Wurzburg ", vol 8 and 9)
• Contributions to the flora of the ancient world (Kassel 1863)
• Contributions to the flora of the Keuper and Rhaetic formation ( Bamb. 1864, with 8 plates )
• The fossil flora of the boundary layers of the Keuper and Lias franc ( Wiesb. 1865-67, with 45 panels )
• The fossil flora of the north-west German Wealdenformation (Kassel in 1871, with 22 plates )
• Plants from the coal formation and Jurassic plants from China ( in Richthofen's "China", Vol 4, 1882).

• For the "Flora Brasiliensis " of the German botanist and naturalist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius he edited the Alströmeriaceen, for the Count Széchenyi collected on his journey fossil plants (1883 )

• Co-editor: "Manual of Botany " ( Bresl. 1879-86, 3 vols This particular reprinted: The fossil remains of plants, 1888)

• With Christian Luerssen he published the "Messages from the general field of botany " ( Leipz., 1871-75 ).

• Also in the publication of Zittel's "Handbook of paleontology ," he has been involved Schimpers death.