August Karl Joseph Corda

August Karl Joseph Corda.

August Karl Joseph Corda (born October 22, 1809 in Reichenberg , Bohemia , † September 1849 in the Atlantic Ocean , sank on the return from a research trip with the ship Viktoria ) was an Austrian botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Corda ".

Live and act

Corda already enjoyed studying natural history as a trainee in Prague. Alexander von Humboldt moved to Berlin as a result of his Monographia Rhizospermarum et Hepaticarum (Volume 1, Prague 1829) , where he dealt with botanical, especially microscopic, examinations and was appointed curator of the zoological department of the National Museum in Prague in 1834 . In 1835 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

In 1847 he went on a research trip to Texas . He was killed at sea on his return voyage in September 1849.

Corda was one of the first botanists to study fossil plants more closely in relation to their anatomical structure. He published magnificent works with excellent illustrations and extremely important for the customers of the cryptogams:

• Icones fungorum hucusque cognitorum (Prague 1837–1854, 6 vols.) And
• Magnificent flora of European mold formations (Leipzig 1839; French, that. 1840).

He also wrote:

• Contributions to the flora of the prehistoric world (Prague 1845) and
• Guide to the Study of Mycology (Prague 1842)

He also worked on the sponges and mushrooms for Johann Wilhelm Sturms Germany's flora as well as the sketches for the comparative anatomy of pre- and present-world plant trunks in the 2nd volume of the flora of the pre-world by Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1838).

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Corda, August Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 442 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Wilhelm von Gümbel :  Corda, August Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 473-475.
• Corda August Karl Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 154.
• Hermann goat bacon :  Corda, August Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 356 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for August Karl Joseph Corda at the IPNI