Nathaniel Wallich
Nathaniel Wallich (actually Nathan ben Wolff ), ( born January 28, 1786 in Copenhagen, † April 28, 1854 in London ) was a Danish botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Wall. ".
Life
Nathaniel Wallich was born as the son of originating from Altona dealer Wulff ben Wallich (or Wolff Wallich ), who had settled in Copenhagen. Here Nathan, who called himself only as an adult, Nathaniel, medicine and botany studied with Martin Vahl. In 1807 he became a doctor in the Danish colony at Serampore in Bengal Frederiksnagor. He entered the service of the British East India Company and in 1814 director of the Indian Museum in Calcutta and assistant to the botanist William Roxburgh in the Botanical Garden of Calcutta. Together with the missionary and orientalist William Carey, he began the publication of William Roxburgh's Flora Indica plant (1820 ). In his works Tentamen Flora nepalensis Illustratae ( 1824-26 ), and Plantae Asiaticae Rariores ( 1830-32 ), he developed the largely unknown fauna of Nepal, with over 20,000 species.
In 1825 he explored the forests of western Hindustan, and from 1826 to 1827, he traveled to Ava and Burma. In 1828 he returned to Europe and brought with numerous Indian plant species that were distributed to all public herbaria of Europe and the United States.
Returned to India in 1834, he took over as head of an expedition to Assam, to report on the operation there tea cultivation. In 1847 he left the East Indies again.
His son was the physician and biologist George Charles Wallich ( 1815-1899 ).
Named after Wallich taxa
He was the genus Wallichia Roxb honor. Plant the palm family ( Arecaceae ) and the Wallichfasan ( Catreus wallichii ) named.
Among others, the following plant species are named after Wallich:
- Allium wallichii
- Apostasia wallichii
- Clerodendrum wallichii
- Convolvulus wallichianus
- Debregeasia wallichiana
- Dombeya wallichii
- Dryopteris wallichiana
- Hoya wallichii
- Ligusticum wallichii
- Nageia wallichiana
- Pinus wallichiana
- Rotala wallichii
- Rubus wallichii
- Schima wallichii
- Taxus wallichiana
- Valeriana wallichii
Works
His main work is Plantae asiaticae rariores (London, 1829-32, 3 volumes with 300 copperplate engravings ).