Alexander von Schrenk

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Alexander Gustav von Schrenk

Alexander Gustav von Schrenk (or Schrenck von Notzing , born February 4, 1816 in Trisnowo near Tula , † June 25, 1876 in Dorpat in Estonia ) was a Baltic German naturalist. He was the brother of Leopold von Schrenck .

Life

Alexander (von) Schrenk came from Livonia (then Russia, now Latvia and Estonia), of German-born parents, and studied natural sciences, especially mineralogy and botany, in Dorpat from 1834–37. He then worked at the St. Petersburg Botanical Garden and took part in trips to Lapland , the northern Urals and later to Kyrgyzstan . From 1846 back in Dorpat he worked on his research results ( trip to the north-east of European Russia, through the tundra of the Samoyed to the Arctic Ural Mountains , 2 vols., Dorpat 1848) and was here in 1849 at the university lecturer for mineralogy (now called geology ; Overview of the upper Silurian stratification system of Liv and Estonia, especially their archipelago , Dorpat 1852). From 1858-68 he was mostly on his Heiligensee estate, then back to Dorpat, where he co-founded the Dorpater Naturforscher-Gesellschaft and died at the age of 60 after he published some more aesthetics from his ancestors' homeland, the Nordmark (1868 “Fabelbuch ", 1870" Romances and Ballads ").

Schrenk's son was the landscape and marine painter Hermann Friedrich von Schrenck .

Works

Heiligensee estate near Pühajärve
  • Report on a trip made in 1840 to the eastern Dzungarian Kyrgyz steppe, 1840.
  • Journey to the Balkhash and on the Tarbagatai, 1841
  • Journey to the northeast of European Russia, through the tundra of the Samoyed, to the Arctic Ural Mountains, two volumes 1848; Translated into English in 1964 as Journey to the Northeast of European Russia, through the Tundras of the Samoyeds, to the Arctic Ural Mountains.
  • Orographic-geognostic overview of the Ural Mountains in the far north, 1849
  • Meeting reports of the natural scientist society at Dorpat in the years 1853 to 1860

Honors

His name is immortalized in the botanical nomenclature in the Schrenk spruce ( Picea schrenkiana ), Tulipa schrenkii , Schrenks tulip u. a.) and in the zoological nomenclature in the Balkhash perch ( Perca schrenkii ). Also the Schrenkia fish genus . & CAMey. from the umbelliferae family (Apiaceae) was named in his honor.

The 372 km long river Schrenk , a left tributary of the Lower Taimyra on the Taimyr peninsula, is named after Alexander von Schrenk .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Schrenk, Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schrenk, Alexander Gustav von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Trisnowo near Tula
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1876
Place of death Dorpat , Estonia