Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen
Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen(3 December 1760,Giessen– 30 November 1806,Darmstadt) was a Germannaturalistandforester.He took part in the production ofTeutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und BeschreibungenbyJohann Conrad Susemihl.[1]
He received his education in Giessen, and in 1796 started work as an assessor at the forestry office inDarmstadt.In 1800, he attained the title ofKammerrat,followed by a role as counselor at the Oberforsthaus Collegium in 1804.[2][3]
As a botanist, he was the taxonomic author ofAlliaceaeandAsclepiadaceaeas well as the circumscriber of numerous plant genera and species.[4]
Works
[edit]- Naturgeschichte der europäischen Schmetterlinge(Natural history of EuropeanLepidoptera) (1788–94).
- Versuch einer Erklärung der zoologischen Terminologie(An explanation of the zoological terminology) (1790).
- Versuch einer forstbotanischen Beschreibung der in Hessen-Darmstädter Landen im Freien wachsenden Holzarten(Description of thewoody plantsgrowing inHesse-Darmstadt) (1790).
- Tentamen dispositionis plantarum Germaniae seminiferarum secundum new fact methodum A staminum situ proportione,(1792).
- Batsch, August Johann Georg Karl(1793–1794).Synopsis vniversalis analytica genervm plantarvm fere omnivm hvcvsque cognitorum qvam secvndvm methodvm sexvalem corollinam, et carpologicam adivnctis ordinibvs naturalibvs adhibitis vltra Linnaeana monitis et adavctionibvs meritissimorvm Avbletii, Lovreirii, Forskolii, Thvnbergii, Forsteri, Vahlii, Gaertneri, Hedwigii, Schreberi, Ivssievii, Swarzii, et aliorum. 2 vols(in Latin).Ienae:Svmtibvs Bibliopolii Croekeriani.*Theoretisch-praktisches Handbuch der Forstbotanik und Forsttechnologie(Manual of forest technology) (1800–1803).
- Deutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands(Natural history of German birds) (1810).[3]
References
[edit]- ^Teutsche Ornithologie, oder, Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands: in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen,Google books
- ^Richard Heß (1876), "Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen",Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie(in German), vol. 3, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 160–163
- ^abBorkhausen | eLexikon:Meyers Konversations-Lexikon,1888; Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig und Wien, 4th edition(in German),1885–1892; vol. 3, p. 221 (PDF).
- ^List of plants described and co-described by Borkhausen,IPNI
- ^International Plant Names Index.Borkh.
Bibliography
[edit]- Robert Zander; Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (Hrsg.):Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen.13.Auflage. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984,ISBN3-8001-5042-5.
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