Eduard August von Regel
Eduard Rule ( Russian Эдуард Людвигович Регель * 13. August 1815 in Gotha , † April 15 . Jul / 27. April 1892 greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a German gardener and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Rule ".
origin
His father was the theologian Friedrich Ludwig Andreas Regel .
Life
Rule received his education at the Illustre high school in his hometown. From 1830 to 1833 he was an apprentice gardener in the ducal orangery in Gotha , while at the same time he perfected his scientific training by attending the Gotha commercial school and taking private lessons. He then went to the Göttingen Botanical Garden as a volunteer . The other stops were Bonn and Berlin before Regel finally became head gardener of the Botanical Garden in Zurich in 1842 . Regel received his doctorate and habilitation in Zurich . In 1853 he acquired the Zurich Citizen Letter and in 1855 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich.
In 1855 he moved to Petersburg, where he worked first as scientific director, later as chief botanist and from 1875 until his death in 1892 as director of the imperial botanical garden. Which he greatly expanded and developed into a leading garden. He was a member of the Imperial Free Economic Society of Saint Petersburg . The Russian tsar raised him to hereditary nobility and state council in 1872, and from 1887 he was a privy councilor.
Regel had made great contributions to fruit growing in Russia , which he studied in detail and contributed to perfecting it. So in 1863 he created a pomological garden at his own expense, whose nursery and acclimatization garden were very useful.
He founded Switzerland in 1843. Magazine for agriculture and horticulture, which he then continued after its split from 1852 to 1884 as the magazine " garden flora ", here he described many new species. He contributed the treatise on the Betulaceae family to volume 16 No. 2 of the work Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis , begun by Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle and edited by his son Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle .
family
Since 1845 he was married to the Swiss Elisabeth Locher, daughter of the pharmacologist and ophthalmologist Hans Locher-Balber (1797–1873). Some of their six children were:
- Elisabeth Julia Regel (born July 10, 1842; October 18, 1925), mother of Friedrich Wilhelm Kesselring
- Johann Albert (December 12, 1845 - July 6, 1909)
- Andreas Friedrich Wilhelm (Vasilij Eduardovic Regel), (born November 27, 1857 - † December 1, 1932), father of Constantin Andreas von Regel
- Karl Arnold (1856–1917), garden engineer in Aarau and St. Petersburg
- Robert (1867–1920), director of the Bureau for Applied Botany at the University of St. Petersburg
The geographer Fritz Regel was his nephew.
Honors
The plant genus Regelia Schauer from the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) and a magazine "Regelia" are named after him. The plant genera Eduardoregelia Popov from the lily family (Liliaceae), Euregelia Kuntze from the bellflower family (Campanulaceae), Neoregelia L.B.Sm. and Aregelia Kuntze , both from the bromeliad family (Bromeliaceae), are named after him.
In 1858 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . The Bavarian Academy of Sciences appointed him a corresponding member in 1874 and an external member in 1888.
Selected Works
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General garden book . 2 vols. (Zurich 1855, 1868)
- General garden book . First volume, Friedrich Schulthess , Zurich 1855 ( Google Books )
- Cultivation of the plants of our higher mountains and of the far north: with 1 plate.Fig.Enke , Erlangen 1856. ( digitized version )
- Monographia Betulacearum ... , 1861
- Tentamen florae ussuriensis , 1861
- Alliorum adhuc cognitorum monographia , 1875
See also
literature
- Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
- Ernst Wunschmann: Rule, Eduard August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 258-260.
- Eduard Lucas : Dr. Eduard Regel , a biographical sketch, in: Illustrirte Monatshefte für Obst- u. Viticulture . 14th year Ulmer, Ravensburg 1868, pp. 257–260, digitized version (pdf of the complete volume)
Web links
- Works by and about Eduard August von Regel in the German Digital Library
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Eduard August von Regel at the IPNI
- Short biography , genealogical page (Russian)
- Obituary by Josef Arnim Knapp
- Personal data , Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian)
- Overview of Eduard August von Regel's courses at the University of Zurich (winter semester 1853 to summer semester 1855)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ljudmila Dunjeva, VERegel - Professor of General History of the Jurjewer (Tartuer) University in the years 1913-1918 , Byzantino-Nordica 2004, p. 136 ff.
- ↑ Sources in ru.wiki according to: NDB 1848-1920
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
- ^ Member entry of Eduard August von Regel at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 6, 2016.
- ^ Member entry by Eduard August von Regel (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 6, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rule, Eduard August von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rule, Eduard August Ludwigowitsch; Эдуард Людвигович Регель |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gardener and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1815 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gotha |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 1892 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |