Charles Daubeny
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
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
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Charles Daubeny at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ^ Member History: Charles GB Daubeny. American Philosophical Society, accessed July 6, 2018 .
- ^ Member entry by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (with a link to an obituary) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 23, 2017.
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
- ↑ Christel Kasselmann : aquarium plants. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1995; 2nd, revised and expanded edition 1999, ISBN 3-8001-7454-5 , p. 377.
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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 |