Anton Heimerl

Anton Heimerl (born February 12, 1857 in Pest , Austrian Empire , † March 5, 1942 in Vienna ) was an Austrian botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Heimerl ".

Live and act

Heimerl was a professor at the k. and k. State secondary school in Fünfhaus in Vienna. One of his specialties was the family of miraculous flowers (Nyctaginaceae).

For the work The Natural Plant Families by Adolf Engler and Carl Prantl he wrote “Phytolaccaceae, Nyctaginaceae” (Volume 3, Number 1b, 1889); for volume 16c of the 2nd edition he wrote “Nyctaginaceae, Phytolaccaceae, Gyrostemonaceae, Achatocarpaceae” (1934).

Honors

The plant genus Heimerliodendron Skottsb is named after him . from the family of (Nyctaginaceae).

Works (selection)

School flora of Austria. (Alpine and Sudeten countries, coastal country south to the area of Trieste). Pichler, Vienna 1903. 3rd edition 1933.
Flora from Brixen a. E. A list with location and altitude information of the further areas of Brixen a. E. (South Tyrol) observed wild growing higher spore and seed plants, useful plants and ornamental trees. Deuticke, Vienna 1911.

literature

Heimerl Anton. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 245.
Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1949. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

Web links

Wikisource: Anton Heimerl - Sources and full texts

Author entry and list of the plant names described for Anton Heimerl at the IPNI

personal data
SURNAME	Heimerl, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pest , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH	March 5, 1942
Place of death	Vienna

[Zander2008-1] Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1949. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7

[Burkhardt2018-2] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]