Cornelius East

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Cornelius Osten (also Cornelio Osten ; born February 11, 1863 in Bremen , Germany ; † September 6, 1936 in Montevideo , Uruguay ) was a German businessman and botanist who worked primarily in Uruguay. Its botanical author abbreviation is East .

Live and act

Cornelius Osten was the first son of the Bremen businessman and senator Friedrich Carl Philipp Osten. In 1896 he emigrated to Uruguay and founded an export company for wool. In addition, he dealt with botanical research. He worked with José Arechavaleta y Balpardo , director of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural (MNHN). One of his areas of work was the sour grass family , which he studied with Georg Kükenthal . He explored in particular the area of ​​the Río de la Plata and undertook research trips to Paraguay with Emil Hassler and his student Teodoro Rojas (1877–1954). In Montevideo he built a herbarium , which in 1907 comprised about 2000 copies. From 1925 to 1932 the herbarium published the magazine Comunicaciones .

In 1928 his younger brother Hans Osten came to Montevideo to support him in the management and in the botanical studies. Cornelius Osten left the business in 1929 and devoted himself to his botanical research. With his brother he traveled to Argentina to Mendoza and Córdoba . He also donated duplicates of his collection copies to other museums such as the Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem , the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Buenos Aires.

Cornelius Osten was married to Elsa geb. Groping. He died in Montevideo in 1936 and was buried in a family vault at the Cementerio Británico in Montevideo. Shortly before his death, he left his herbarium with over 23,000 copies, mainly from Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, and his library to the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural . In 1941 the Notas sobre cactáceas were published. Some of the descriptions contained therein are ascribed to him with the year 1941, although he had already died.

Awards and honors

Fonts

  • Rarity of the Verbena bastards in Argentina. Letter to Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau . In: Treatises of the Natural Science Association in Bremen. Volume 14, Issue 2, 1897, p. 264 ( archive.org ).
  • with Wilhelm Franz Herter : Plantae Uruguayenses. In: Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo. 2nd Series, Vol. 1, 1925, pp. 325-405, OCLC 66567873 .
  • with Wilhelm Franz Herter: Contribuciones al conocimiento de la flora de la república O. del Uruguay. In: Comunicaciones Herbarium Cornelius Osten. No. 1. Montevideo 1925, OCLC 175296796 :
Podostemaceae Florae Uruguayensis. Pp. 14-17.
Droseraceae Florae Uruguayensis. P. 18.
Halorrhagaceae Florae Uruguayensis. P. 19.
Misceláneas. Pp. 20-28.
  • Las Ciperáceas del Uruguay. In: Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo. 2nd Series, Vol. 3, 1931, pp. 109-256, OCLC 475281638 .
  • Una Gunnera en el Uruguay: Gunnera herteri East n.sp. In: Comunicaciones Herbarium Cornelius Osten. No. 2. Montevideo 1932, pp. 33-39, OCLC 21236625 .
  • Una nueva especie de Gunnera del Uruguay: Gunnera herteri East n.sp. In: Physis. Volume 11. Buenos Aires 1932, pp. 176-178.
  • with Wilhelm Franz Herter: Sobre el descubrimiento de una Gunnera en el pais. In: Archivos de la Sociedad de Biología de Montevideo. Vol. 5, 1933, pp. 3-9, OCLC 252415732 .
  • Notas sobre cactáceas. Museo de Historia Natural, Montevideo 1941, OCLC 153857606 ( online , PDF; 28.4 MB).

literature

  • Festschrift Cornelius Osten. Collection of botanical works presented by friends of the jubilee on the day of his 70th birthday, Montevideo, on February 11, 1933. Heims, Leipzig 1933, DNB 362444927 .
Edition in Uruguay: Ostenia. Colección de trabajos botanicos dedicados á don Cornelio Osten en ocasión del LXX aniversario de su nacimiento. Montevideo 1933, OCLC 5426032 .
  • Diego Legrand: Dr. Cornelius East. Datos Biográficos. In: Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Montevideo. 2. Series, Volume V, No. 1. P. 4–7 (with picture, Spanish, online , PDF; 28.4 MB)

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ In some sources such as Osten, Cornelius (1863–1936) on plants.jstor.org the information can be found at the age of 23 years , that would be in the year 1886. This information is probably wrong, see Cornelius Osten (1863–1936) on cactuspro.com, footnote 1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Comunicaciones on obvsg.at, ZDB -ID 753958-7
  2. ↑ Rodrigo Corrêa Pontes, José Newton Cardoso Marchiori, Leopoldo Witeck Neto: Notas históricas sobre a família Cactaceae no Rio Grande do Sul (Brasil) e Uruguai. I - Período Clássico (1818–1950): viajantes naturalistas e botânicos europeus. In: Balduinia. No. 56, 2017, pp. 1–11, here p. 8, footnote 5 ( online )
  3. ^ Note sheet of the Botanical Garden and Museum in Berlin-Dahlem. Volume XI, No. 109, 1933, pp. 840f.
  4. ↑ Annual report of the Director to the Board of Trustees for the year 1931 (= Publications of Field Museum of Natural History. Volume IX). 1931/1932, p. 334 ( archive.org ).
  5. ↑ Cornelius Osten on findagrave.com
personal data
SURNAME East, Cornelius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES East, Cornelio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen , Germany
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1936
Place of death Montevideo , Uruguay