Emil Bretschneider

Emil Vasilyevich Bretschneider (. * 22 Junijul / July 4 1833greg in Riga, .. . † 29 Apriljul / May 12 1901greg in St. Petersburg, Russian Эмилий Васильевич Бретшнейдер, scientific transliteration Ėmilij Vasil'evič Bretšnejder ) was a Russian embassy doctor, sinologist, geographer and explorer of the Chinese botany. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Bretschn. ".

Name spelling variants

E. Bretschneider, Emil Bretschneider, Emilij V. Bretšnejder, Emil Vasilyevich Bretschneider, Emil Bretschneider Vasilievitch

Life

Bretschneider was Baltic German. He studied medicine at the Imperial University of Dorpat in Dorpat to Estonia, then in Berlin, Vienna and Paris. From 1862 to 1865 he worked as a doctor embassy in Tehran and from 1866 to 1883 in Beijing. He was with the well-known under his monastic name Russian Archimandrite Palladius and sinologist ( Pyotr Ivanovich Kafarow ) from the Beijing Mission of the Russian Orthodox Church friends.

Importance of his publications

Among his most famous works are the Mediaeval Researches (1888), in which he extensively zoom attracts Chinese and Russian sources for his portrayal of medieval travel from the 13th to the 17th century in Central Asia, including Yelü Chucai, Changchun and Li Zhichang, Wugusun Zhongduan, Hethum I. and Kirakos Gandsaketsi, Chang De and Yelü Xiliang and his Botanicon Sinicum (1882 /96), in which he lent his hand as a western pioneer to the study of materia medica of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He also wrote a History of European botanical discoveries in China ( 1898), A History of European botanical discoveries in China, which is not limited to China, but also Manchuria, Mongolia, East Turkestan, Tibet, Korea, the Ryukyu Islands and Bonin Islands includes.

Quote

Dec 1870. - The term " bean curd " is first used by Emil V. Bretschneider, writing in English in the Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal ( Foochow, p 173. ). He said: " Bean - curd is one of the most important articles of food in China." Then he gave to accurate description of how it made ​​what.

Works (selection)

  • A complete list can be found at Hartmut Walravens: Emil Bretschneider - Russian legation doctor, geographer and explorer of the Chinese botany: a bibliography, Hamburg, Bell 1983, Han -pao tung- Ya -chi shu mu -lu; ISBN 3-923308-25-6 22
  • History of European botanical discoveries in China, 1898, (reprint: Leipzig, Central Antiquariat the GDR 1962)
  • Botanicon Sinicum. Notes on Chinese Botany from Native and Western Sources. 3 volumes. London, Trübner 1882/1892/1893 ( Reproduction of all volumes in Shanghai 1895) Part 1 Notes on Chinese Botany from Native and Western Sources, 1882
  • Part 2 The Botany of the Chinese Classics: With Annotations, appendix and index, with Ernst Faber, 1892
  • Part 3 Botanical investigations into the materia medica of the ancient Chinese, 1895
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