Henry Nicholas Bolander

Henry Nicholas Bolander ( born February 22, 1831 in Schlüchtern, † 1897 in Portland, Oregon ) was a German -American botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Bol "..

Life

Bolander was born in Schlüchtern in Hesse and emigrated in 1846 at the age of 15 years in the United States. Encouraged by his uncle, he entered the Lutheran Seminary in Columbus ( Ohio). He graduated from there and was ordained, but never used as a pastor. From 1851 he began to teach at German - English schools. From his neighbor Leo Lesquereux, a Swiss palaeobotanist and Bryologen, he was introduced to the botany.

After a few years of the disease Bolander was recommended a change of climate, and he moved in 1861 to California, where he met many members of the California Academy of Sciences and the State Geological Surveys. In 1864 he started together with William Henry Brewer to create a botanical collection, he collected fungi and flowering plants. He became a specialist in grasses.

He has published several scientific publications on the California grasses in the Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences and a Catalogue of Plants Growing in the Vicinity of San Francisco ( 1870). From 1871, Bolander again worked as a teacher and became " State Superintendent of Schools"; this office he held position until 1875. In addition, he was editor of a monthly magazine California Teacher. 1878 Bolander left California and traveled for several years; he visited Guatemala, Chile and Peru, but probably also in South Africa, Madagascar and Europe. In 1883 he moved to Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon, where he modern languages ​​and botany at the St. Helen's Hall and Bishop Scott Academy taught until his death in 1897.

Trivia

To him, the lily Lilium bolanderi was named in honor.