Heinrich Moritz Willkomm

Heinrich Moritz Will Come ( born June 29, 1821 in Herwig, Saxony, † August 26, 1895 at Castle Wartenberg in Straz pod Ralskem, Bohemia ) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Willk. ".

Life and work

Will Come affiliations include the University of Leipzig. He was professor of natural history in Tharandt, then at the University of Dorpat, and finally from 1874 to 1892 as a professor and director at the Charles University in Prague.

He wrote dozens of works in various fields of botany. His works contain many valuable lithographic illustrations. In the 1840s he traveled on the Iberian Peninsula; he was considered an authority on the flora of this region.

Considered together with Robert Hartig (1839-1901) as the founder of Forest Phytopathology.

Will Come in 1896 wrote the work The earth's vegetation by Adolf Engler and Drude Oscar for Volume 1 on " Broad distribution of plants in the Iberian Peninsula ".

In his honor, the plant genus Willkommia hack from the family of grasses ( Poaceae ) has been named.

During his studies in 1868 he was a member of the Leipzig fraternity Kochei.

Works

  • Two years in Spain and Portugal: travel memories. Volume 1, 1847.
  • Two years in Spain and Portugal: travel memories. Volume 2, 1847.
  • The beach and steppe areas of the Iberian Peninsula and their vegetation. A contribution to the physical geography, geology and botany., 1852.
  • The peninsula of the Pyrenees, a geographical- statistical monograph, according to the latest sources, and according to his own experience. Leipzig 1855.
  • Broad distribution of plants on the Iberian Peninsula. In 1896.
  • Icones plantarum et descriptiones ... Novarum, praecipue Hispaniae. From 1852 to 1862.
  • Prodromus florae hispanicae. 1861-1880, Suppl 1893 along with JMC Lange.
  • Atlas of Botany. In 1873.
  • Illustrationes florae Hispaniae insularumque Balearium. From 1881 to 1892.
  • Natural history of the plant kingdom after the Linnaean system. Schreiber, Esslingen 1890.
  • The Pyrenean peninsula: in three departments / by Moritz Will Come. - Prague: Tempsky, 1884. Volume 1: Physical picture of the peninsula and description of Portugal Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
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