Richard Wettstein

Richard Wettstein, Knights of Westerville Home (* June 30, 1863 in Vienna, † August 10 1931 in Trins, Tyrol) was an Austrian botanist. He was the father of Otto Wettstein, Fritz von Wettstein and Wolfgang Wettstein. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Wettst. ".

Life

Richard Wettstein studied from 1881 Natural Sciences and Medicine at the University of Vienna, where he in 1884 Dr. phil. doctorate. He was a student, assistant and son of Anton Kerner von Marilaun. In 1886 he was a lecturer in botany and 1888 lecturer at the Botanical Garden and Museum in Vienna. From 1892 he was Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanical Garden and Institute of the University of Prague. In 1899 he was appointed full Professor of Systematic Botany at the University of Vienna, where he presided as director also the renewed from him Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna and the Institute of Botany. Institute and Museum buildings have been built under his direction in 1904 /05. From 1901 he was president of the Vienna Zoological and Botanical Society. Research trips led him in 1901 when members of a botanical expedition to the Vienna Academy of Sciences, to Brazil and 1929/30, with his son Fritz to Southern and East Africa. From 1910 he was a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in 1919 its Vice- President. 1913/14, he was rector of the University of Vienna.

Wettstein worked mainly as plant taxonomists; he justified the classification of plants according to Wettstein and put the theory to Pseudanthien. For the plant, the natural plant families of Adolf Engler in Volume 4 Issue 3b he worked on the plant families " Nolanaceae, Solanaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Globulariaceae, Myoporaceae " ( 1891-1895 ).

Wettstein was in 1917 appointed a member of the manor house in the Austrian parliament. After the First World War he was a member of the founded in 1919 Austro- German consortium, whose members spoke up for an annexation of Austria to the German Reich.

Honors

The plant genera Wettsteinia Petrak and Wettsteiniola Suesseng. have been named after him.

His likeness can be seen on the 50 - shilling bill of 1962.

In 1942 in Vienna Floridsdorf ( 21st district ) was named the Wettstein alley after him.

Works

  • Broad geographic- morphological method of Plant Systematics, 1898
  • Botany and Zoology in Austria 1850-1900, 1901
  • The Neo - Lamarckism and its relationship to Darwinism, 1903
  • Handbook of systematic botany, 2 volumes, 1901-08; 3rd edition 1924, 4th edition 1933-1935 ( edited by his son Fritz von Wettstein )

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.
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