Albert rule
Johann Albert Regel ( Russian Иоанн-Альберт Регель ; * December 12, 1845 in Zurich ; † July 6, 1909 in Odessa ) was a German-born, Swiss-Russian medic , botanist , Central Asian researcher and archaeologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " A.Regel ".
Life
Johann Albert Regel was the son of Eduard August von Regel (1815-1892), who was chief botanist and director of the Imperial Botanical Garden in St. Petersburg from 1855 .
He worked as a district doctor in the Chinese city of Gulja in the Ili province, which was then under Russian administration . In the years 1879-1880 he went on an expedition to Turfan from there . He described the ruins of the monastery and Buddhist evidence of the past from the Turfan area.
He has also toured Karategin and Darwaz, today in Badachschan and Berg-Badachschan .
Works
- Contribution to the history of hemlock and water hemlock . - Moscow, 1877. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Travels in Central Asia, 1876-79 . In: Dr. A. Petermann's communications from Justus Perthes' Geographical Institute; Volume 25, 1879, pp. 376-384 and 408-417. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1879
- My expedition to Turfan in 1879 . In: Dr. A. Petermann's communications from Justus Perthes' Geographical Institute; 27th Volume, 1881, pp. 380-394. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1881
literature
- Edward Delmar Morgan: “Dr. Regel's Expedition from Kuldja to Turfan in 1879-1880 ”, in: Proceedings of the Royal Geographic Society , June 1881
- SL Tikhvinskiy, BA Litvinskiy: Vostochnïy Turkestan v drevnosti i rannem srednevekove (East Turkestan in Antiquity and Early Middle Ages), Moscow 1988
- Jack A. Dabbs: History of the Discovery and Exploration of Chinese Turkestan. The Hague: Mouton, 1963.
- Hartmut Walravens: Rule, Johann Albert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 256 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Carsten Goehrke: Rule, Albert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Albert Regel at the IPNI
- ... the doctor and botanist Johann Albert Regel ...
- Russian Explorations in Chinese Central Asia (IDP)
- Werner Sundermann: Turfan Expeditions - English
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rule, Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Регель, Иоанн-Альберт (Russian); Rule Johann Albert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss-Russian physician, botanist, Central Asian researcher and archaeologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1909 |
| Place of death | Odessa |