August Kanitz

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August Kanitz (1874)
August Kanitz

August Kanitz , also Ágoston , (born April 25, 1843 in Lugoj , Banat , Austrian Empire ; † July 13, 1896 in Cluj-Napoca , Transylvania , Austria-Hungary ) was a Hungarian botanist , university professor , member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and corresponding member of the Romanian Academy . His botanical author abbreviation is " Kanitz ".

Life

Kanitz attended grammar school in Nagykőrös and Temesvár from 1852 to 1860 , where he graduated from high school in June 1860. In 1861 he began studying medicine and natural sciences at the University of Vienna with Professors Unger , Frenzl and Neilreich . In 1864 he went on study trips to Slavonia, Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy and in 1867 took part in the Paris Congress of Botany.

Kanitz was from the University of Tübingen on a proposal from Hugo von Mohl to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1869 to 1872 he was professor of natural history at the higher agricultural college in Hungarian Altenburg , but gave up this position after a year and visited Italy in 1871 with a state travel grant to study the facilities of botanical gardens and museums. In 1872 Kanitz became professor of botany at the newly opened University of Cluj-Napoca , set up the botanical garden and laid out a university herbarium. Kanitz earned great merit in naming plants in Slavonia, Romania, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania and Serbia, as a result of which a summarizing flora of Romania and Bosnia-Herzegovina emerged. In addition to various smaller works on the history of science, he wrote an outline of the history of Hungarian botany for the first time. He also worked on the estate of Pál Kitaibel , Johann Heuffel , August Grisebach and Josef Raditschnig von Lerchenfeld . From 1877 to 1892 he brought out the 15-volume botany lexicon "Magyar Növénytani Lapok".

Works (excerpt)

  • History of botany in Hungary, Hanover 1863
  • Attempt at a history of Hungarian botany, Halle 1865
  • The vegetation conditions of the Hungarian countries, 1865
  • The previously known plants of Slavonia, Vienna 1866
  • Overview of the plant-geographic conditions in Hungary, Transylvania, Dalmatia, Croatia and Slavonia, Regensburg 1867
  • Travel memories. To Italy, Innsbruck, Padua. Vienna 1872
  • together with Paul Friedrich August Ascherson : Catalogus cormophytorum et anthophytorum Serbiae, Bosniae, Hercegovinae, Montis Scodri, Albaniae hucusque cognitorum, 1877
  • Plantae Romaniae hucusque cognitae, Klausenburg 1879–1881
  • Botanical results of Count Béla Széchenyi's inner-Asian expedition, Budapest 1885
  • Fundamenta rei herbariae generalis, 1889–1893

literature

Web links

Commons : August Kanitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Peter Petri : Biographisches Lexikon des Banater Deutschtums , Marquartstein, 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
  2. biographien.ac.at , Austrian Biographical Lexicon