Anna Weber-van Bosse
Anna Weber-van Bosse (born March 27, 1852 in Amsterdam , † October 29, 1942 in Eerbeek ) was a Dutch algologist. She described many new species and genera, as it was the first collected in remote tropical areas and used material with trawl nets in the shelf regions had been collected. Your botanical author abbreviation is " Weber Bosse ".
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Anna van Bosse was born on March 27, 1852 in Amsterdam as the daughter of the businessman Jacob van Bosse and his wife Jaqueline Jeanne. In 1870 she married the painter Wilhelm Ferdinand Willink van Collen. After his death in 1877, she enrolled in 1880 as one of the first women at the University of Amsterdam to study under the plant physiologist Hugo de Vries and the botanist CAJA Oudemans . After studying general botany for three years, she specialized in algae .
In 1883 Anna Weber-van Bosse married the German-Dutch zoologist Max Wilhelm Carl Weber . One of her first scientific papers dealt with the algae that live in the fur of sloths in 1887 . In the following years she accompanied her husband on research trips to Northern Norway, Dutch East India and South Africa to collect marine algae. From 1899–1900 she took part in the Siboga expedition led by her husband , where she was responsible for collecting algae. After the research trip she published numerous scientific papers on the collected tropical marine algae. Among the genera she discovered were Periphykon , Exophyllum , Chalicostroma , Microphyllum , Corallophila , Aneuria , Etherlia , Perinema , Tapeinodasya , Mesospora , Bryobesia and Tydemania . She also helped her husband publish the approximately 137 monographs based on the material from the expedition.
In addition, she published some papers on marine algae that had been collected on other expeditions, including a. from the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition carried out by John Stanley Gardiner in 1905 , from the Danish expedition to the Kai Islands from 1914–1916 , and the material collected by Prince Leopold of Belgium from 1926–1929 . She carried out most of her work in a small laboratory on the Huis te Eerbeek estate . Anna Weber-van Bosse donated her large collection of algae, which she had expanded to include the collections of Friedrich Traugott Kützing , Ferdinand Hauck (botanist) and Willem Frederik Reinier Suringar , to the National Museum in Leiden in 1934 .
Honors
Anna Weber-van Bosse had been a member of the Nederlandsche Botanische Vereeniging since 1885, an honorary member since 1924, and the oldest member since 1938. The University of Utrecht awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1910. In recognition of her work, mainly from the Siboga expedition, she received the Officer's Cross of the Dutch Order of Merit in 1935 .
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- Mary RS Creese: Ladies in the Laboratory II. West European Women in Science, 1800-1900. A Survey of Their Contribution to Research . The Scarecrow Press, 2004, pp. 106 ff .
Individual evidence
- ^ Anna Weber-van Bosse: Étude sur les algues parasites des Paresseux . In: Negotiating van de Hollandsche Maatschappij of Wetenschappen te Haarlem series 3 . tape 5 , no. 1 , 1887, p. 1-24 .
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Wikispecies: Anna Antoinette Weber-van Bosse - species directory| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Weber-van Bosse, Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weber Bosse (botanical author abbreviation) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch algologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1942 |
| Place of death | Eerbeek |