Charles Daubeny

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Charles Daubeny (1856-1860)

Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (born February 11, 1795 in Stratton near Cirencester in Gloucestershire , † December 12, 1867 in Oxford ) was an English naturalist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Daubeny ”.

Live and act

Sketch of the Geology of North America appeared in 1839

The son of a pastor studied at Magdalen College in Oxford with John Kidd, among others . In 1819 he went on a geological research trip to France, where he mainly studied the volcanism of the Auvergne . He described the results in his work Letters on the Volcanos of Auvergn , which appeared in the journal The Edinburgh Journal . In 1822 he was accepted as a member of the Royal Society of London . Since 1838 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society and since 1860 a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In various research trips that took him to Hungary, Transylvania , Italy with Sicily, France and Germany, he deepened his volcanological investigations and described them again in 1826 in the book A Description of Active and Extinct Volcanos .

In 1822 Daubeny was appointed to the chemistry chair at Oxford as the successor to John Kidd and held it until 1855. In 1834 he also took over a professorship for botany and was also head of the Botanical Gardens in Oxford. He investigated a number of site ecological problems such as the influence of soil and light on vegetation.

In 1830 he published a work on the chemical elements iodine and bromine in thermal springs . In 1831 his work Introduction to the Atomic Theory was published .

In 1837 he visited the USA and collected data on thermal springs and the geology of North America in general .

The Oxford Herbarium bears his name.

Honor taxon

The Daubenya Lindl plant genus . from the asparagus family (Asparagaceae) and the cultivated hybrid Nymphaea x daubenyana W.T.Baxter ex Daubeny , which is also used in aquariums, are named after him.

Fonts

  • Lectures on Agriculture . 1841
  • Lectures on Roman Husbandry . 1841
  • Climate: an inquiry into the causes of its differences and into its influence on Vegetable Life . 1841
  • An Essay on the Trees and Shrubs of the Ancients, and a Catalog of the Trees and Shrubs indigenous to Greece and Italy . 1865

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Charles GB Daubeny. American Philosophical Society, accessed July 6, 2018 .
  2. ^ Member entry by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (with a link to an obituary) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
  4. ↑ Christel Kasselmann : aquarium plants. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1995; 2nd, revised and expanded edition 1999, ISBN 3-8001-7454-5 , p. 377.
personal data
SURNAME Daubeny, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daubeny, Charles Giles Bridle (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English chemist, botanist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Stratton at Cirencester , Gloucestershire
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1867
Place of death Oxford