Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein

Franz de Paula Adam Norbert Wenzel Ludwig Valentin von Waldstein - Wartenberg ( born February 14, 1759 in Vienna, † May 24 1823 in Oberleutensdorf, Bohemia ) was originally an Austrian military, then kk Chamberlain, botanists, researchers and scientists. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Waldst. ".

Biography

Franz Adam was the third son of Emanuel Philibert of Waldstein - Wartenberg and his wife Maria Anna Theresia of Liechtenstein. He was married to Carolina Ferdinandiova ( 1777-1844 ). As a soldier, he took part against the Turks and in Russia in the war. He devoted himself in 1789 in botany and traveled with Paul Kitaibel ( 1757-1817 ) through Hungary. His herbarium is archived in Prague.

Together with Kitaibel he is the main author of Francisci comitis Waldstein ... et Pauli et icones plantarum Kitaibel ... Descriptiones rariorum Hungariae (MA Schmidt, Vienna, three editions from 1802 to 1812, folio ( 465 x 332 mm ) ).

His widow, Carolina had 1823 Counts build Waldsteinische crypt chapel in the cemetery of the parish church of St. Michael in Oberleutensdorf. The system established for 1000 guilders monument to Franz Adam von Waldstein is a work of the Dresden sculptor Franz Pettrich.

Franz Adam von Waldstein - Wartenberg was the brother of Joseph Karl Emanuel, Johann Friedrich and Ferdinand Ernst von Waldstein Wartenberg.

Work

The book has importance for the flora of Central Europe and is sumptuously furnished; the panels, 16 of them in double format, colored by hand. The Descriptiones et Icones are extremely rare; they belong to the rare botanical literature; in particular this applies to the last, published in the Napoleonic war turmoil band.

Honors

From 1814 he was an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

The plant genus Waldsteinia Willd. has been named after him, as is the Waldstein bellflower (Campanula waldsteiniana ).

Swell

• Robert Zander, Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (eds.): Handbook of Plant Names. 13th edition. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.