Antonio José Cavanilles

Antonio José Cavanilles.

Antonio José Cavanilles (born January 16, 1745 in Valencia , † May 4, 1804 in Madrid ) was a Spanish botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Cav. "

Life

Cavanilles was initially a clergyman and later taught philosophy in Murcia . In 1777 he went as a tutor of the children of the Duque del Infantado to Paris and dedicated himself during a ten-year stay to the study of botany . After his return he explored the Spanish flora and in 1801 became director of the botanical garden in Madrid .

In 1792 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . In 1804, the year of his death, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society .

Cavanilles is considered to have discovered the Cova de les Calaveres , a cave near Benidoleig south of Valencia .

Taxa named after Cavanilles

The plant genera Cavanillesia Ruiz & Pav. And Cavanilla J.F.Gmel. , both named from the mallow family (Malvaceae).

Fonts

• Annales de Historia Natural , together with Christian Herrgen , Domingo García Fernández and Joseph Louis Proust , 1799

Web links

Commons : Antonio José Cavanilles  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Antonio José Cavanilles in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography with portrait in spanish
• Malpighiaceae / Cavanilles (English)
• Biography Australian National Botanic Gardens
• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Antonio José Cavanilles at the IPNI

Individual evidence

1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Antonio José Cavanilles. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 3, 2015 . 
2. ^ Member History: Antonio J. Cavanilles. American Philosophical Society, accessed June 1, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
4. ↑ Alexander von Humboldt : Political essay on the island of Cuba. (No longer available online.) Irene Prüfer Leske, p. 318 , archived from the original on February 3, 2012 ; Retrieved November 27, 2011 ( ISBN 978-84-8454-202-5 ). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.