Stephan Endlicher
Stephan Ladislaus finite (* June 24, 1804 in Bratislava, † March 28 1849 in Vienna ) was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and sinologist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Endl. ".
He was 1839-1849 Director of the Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna and the Botanical Museum.
Life and work
Finite originally studied theology and received the minor orders. In 1828 he was in Vienna, the position at the court library, whose collection of manuscripts, he ordered new. He studied natural sciences, particularly botany and East Asian languages . For a long time he wrote basic Chinese grammar. In 1833 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina. From 1840 he was professor and director of the botanical garden. He authored the most comprehensive in its time representation of the plant kingdom for a natural system. On Endlicher suggestion, along with Franz Unger 1843 published "Principles of Botany " for the first time contain text, images. With Joseph von Hammer- Purgstall he set in 1847 by the establishment of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
Endlicher largest botanical merit is in the format established by him natural plant system, which he has outlined in his book Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita (Vienna 1836-1850 ) and later in his Enchiridion botanicum exhibens classes et ordines plantarum (Leipzig 1841). This work of his completeness in the characteristics of the families and genera has remained indispensable due to the latest time.
In addition, finite took as employee share plantarum at the of Esenbeck worried by Nees edition of Robert Brown's Mixed botanical writings of Eduard Friedrich Poeppigs Nova genera ac species plantarum, in the annals of the Vienna Museum of Natural History and at the Enumeratio, quas in Nova Hollandia collegit. Since 1840 he edited with Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius flora Brasiliensis.
Apart from the Atlas of China after receiving the Jesuitenmissionäre (Vienna 1843, 6 books ) and map of the province of Tche Kiang, he gave a number of estimable contributions to the customer of the older German and ancient classical literature as well as the Hungarian historical sources, two seals of Priscian (Vienna 1828), the fragments of an old German translation of the Gospel of Matthew from the Mondseer fragments ( with Hoffmann von Faller life, Vienna 1834, 2nd edition, with Hans Ferdinand Massmann, 1841), the Analecta grammatica (Vienna 1836) and Foundations of Chinese grammar (Vienna 1845), out.
In 1932 ( 10th district ) was named after him in the Endlichergasse Vienna favorites.
The plant genus Endlicheria is named after him.
Works
- Stephen Finite along with Henricus Schott: Meletemata botanica facsimile printing, Cramer, Weinheim, 1964 ( first edition: Gerold, Vindobonae [ Vienna ] 1832).
- Prodromus florae norfolkicae. 1833rd online ( PDF, 7.4 MB)
- Atakta botanica. Nova genera et species plantarum .... 1833-1835.
- Nova genera ac species plantarum quas in regno chilensi, Peruviano et in terra amazonica ... (along with Eduard Friedrich Poeppig ). From 1835 to 1845.
- Genera plantarum .... 1836-1850.
- Remarks on the flora of the South Sea Islands. In: Ann. Mus. Vienna 1, pp. 129-190, 1836 online ( PDF, 25.0 MB).
- Iconographia generum plantarum. From 1837 to 1841.
- Outline of a new theory of plant procreation. In 1838.
- Stirpium australasicarum herbarii hügeliani Decades tres. 1840th online ( PDF, 1.5 MB)
- Enchiridion botanicum .... 1841.
- The Medicinal Plants of the Austrian Pharmacopoeia: a manual for physicians and pharmacists / by Stephan finite. Gerold, Vienna 1842 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
- Broad botany. Vienna in 1843 (along with Unger).
- Foundations of Chinese grammar. Vienna 1845.
- Synopsis Coniferarum .... 1847.
- Rerum Hungaricarum monumental Arpadiana. , 1849.
- The laws of St. Stefan. , 1849.