Emil Hassler

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1888, Emil Hassler (1864–1937) doctor, natural scientist, botanist
Emil Hassler, 1888

Emil Hassler (born June 20, 1864 in Aarau , † November 4, 1937 in Asunción ) (also French: Émile Hassler, Spanish: Emilio Hassler ) was a Swiss doctor, naturalist and botanist . " Hassl. " Is the standard form for Emil Hassler as the author of plant descriptions.

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In 1880 Hassler moved to Buenos Aires and worked as an assistant at the women's hospital there. Soon afterwards he settled in Paraguay as a doctor. There he undertook numerous research trips and became known for his plant collections ( herbaria ) and contributions to the flora of Paraguay. On his research trips he was accompanied by the German botanist Cornelius Osten , who worked in Montevideo . His original herbaria from Paraguay are in the conservatory of the Jardin botanique de Genève .

Emil Hassler in Paraguay, 1914. Source: https://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=arg-001:2017:129::14#34
Emil Hassler in Paraguay, 1914

Excursions and trips to Europe interrupted his stay in San Bernadino , his final place of residence. When the First World War broke out, Hassler returned to Switzerland to work as a botanist in Geneva. In 1919 he returned to San Bernadino. There he founded a school based on the Swiss model, the Pestalozzi School there . After Hassler during Chacookrieg had conducted a hospital seventeen months, he was appointed by the Paraguayan government as honorary captains and the University of Asuncion awarded him a doctorate honoris causa .

During his life, Hassler made about fifty trips from Paraguay to Switzerland. There he visited u. a. his brother who lived in Schaffhausen. Hassler traveled to Switzerland for the last time in 1935.

Emil Hassler's grave in San Bernardino
Emil Hassler's grave

Hassler donated the largest and most beautiful part of his ethnological collection to the Basel Museum of Ethnology .

Emil Hassler died after an operation in his second home Paraguay.

Honors

Are named after the plant genera Hassler Hasslerella Chodat from the family of Figworts (Scrophulariaceae), Hassleria Briquet ex Moldenke from the family of mint (Lamiaceae) and Hassleropsis Chodat from the family of Plantain Family (Plantaginaceae). In 1923 Hassler became an honorary member of the Aargau Natural Scientists Society .

literature

Daniel Wyss: Emil Hassler, Collected Views from South America Argovia: Annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau. Vol. 129, pp. 8-49, 2017

Web links

Commons : Emil Hassler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Beatrice Häsler, Lorenzo Ramella: Hassler, Emil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. a b c Hassler 1864-1937 (IPNI)
  3. Osten, Cornelius (1863-1936) on plants.jstor.org
  4. Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]