Hans von Türckheim
Hans Freiherr von Turckheim ( born May 27, 1853 in Karlsruhe, † May 7, 1920 ibid ) was a German diplomat and botanist. His botanical author abbreviation is " Türckh. ".
Life
Türckheim came from an old imperial knights economic family from the Ortenau. His father was Hans Freiherr von Turckheim (1814-1892), a diplomat of the Grand Duchy of Baden, who was from 1864 to 1883 Baden envoy in Berlin and privately operated as a micro- paleontologist. His father was the foreign minister Johann von Baden Türckheim.
Türckheim studied law at the Universities of Strasbourg and Berlin. His state examination he passed in 1876 and was then articled clerk in direction of adjustment and in Delitzsch. For a year he was in the Dragoon Guards.
1877 to 1908 he lived in Guatemala. There he was Cafetalero and German consul in Coban and collected in botany. In 1908 he returned to Karlsruhe. From 1909 to 1910 he made a botanical expedition into the high mountains of the Dominican Republic. Türckheim collected in Santo Domingo, Barahona, Azua, la Vega and Sanchez and published an account of his journey in the year 1911, the general botanical magazine.
The investigation of the Türckheim'schen Guatemalapflanzen took over in 1885 John Donnell Smith ( 1829-1928 ) in Baltimore. This publicized the many new species that appears in the Chicago Botanical Gazette. An enumeration of the Central American species with the Türckheim'schen he exhibited the printed labels of the plants together under the title Enumeratio plantarum guatemalensium necnon salvadorensium hondurensium nicaraguensium costaricensium ( Oquawkae, Ill.: HN Patterson, 1907).
The Türckheim 's plants acquired John Donnell Smith, who distributed them, along with those from the other Central American countries, where he had equipped at his own expense partly expeditions, free of charge in 8 copies to the 8 largest botanical museums of the world under the title Ex plantis Guatemalensibus necnon Salvadorensibus Hondurensibus.
The Berlin Museum received in this way 3309 numbers, including including the Türckheim'schen Guatemalapflanzen. Numerous mosses received the Berlin Museum from the years 1885-1888 of Türckheim directly and also from the Bryotheca E. Levier (Florence) 47 numbers Hepaticae and Musci 87 frondosi. Many moss species were collected, what the Bryologen rejoiced.
Discovered in the Dominican Republic new genera ( the Urticaceae Sarcopilea and the Scrophulariaceae Türckheimocharis ) and approximately 150 new species described Ignaz Urban in the 7th volume of his Symbolae Antillanae. All of Türckheim brought from the Dominican Republic Plants ( v. 2501-3756 ) were purchased from Urban in its flora domingensis, the Eighth Volume of Symbolae published ( Volume 1 appeared in 1920 ).
1902 Türckheim appeared with Rudolf Schlechter in contact to conduct research about orchids.
Türckheim was very eloquent and spoke the ancient languages , English, French, Spanish and Central American languages. During the war he was deployed to control the prisoners' correspondence in the mail, but he held the rank of Captain.
After a long illness, Hans von Türckheim died on February 7, 1920 in Karlsruhe. His herbarium he bequeathed to the Botanical Museum in Berlin.
Swell
- Johann Andreas Kneucker: Hans Freiherr von Turckheim. In: General Botanical Journal of systematics, floristics, plant geography, etc. G. Braun Hofbuchdruckerei and Publishing, Karlsruhe, 1922, pp. 33-36 ( 24-25 year 1918/1919, No. 9-12, digitized. . ).