Ernst Rudolph von Trautvetter
Ernst Rudolph Trautvetter , from 1825 von Trautvetter (born February 20, 1809 in Mitau , Kurland Governorate , Russian Empire ; † January 24, 1889 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire) was a Baltic German botanist and university rector. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Trautv. "
Life
He was the nephew of Friedrich Wilhelm Trautvetter , royal Saxon court advisor and agent in Saint Petersburg , who was elevated to the Saxon nobility on May 23, 1825 in Dresden .
Trautvetter attended grammar school in Mitau from 1821 to 1825 and studied medicine between 1825 and 1829 and botany from 1829 to 1831 at the university in Dorpat . He received his doctorate in 1835 from the University of Königsberg as Dr. phil. and in 1837 became a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences .
From 1838 to 1859 he was a full professor of botany at St. Vladimir University in Kiev . There Trautvetter founded a botanical garden in 1839 and was Rector of St. Vladimir University from June 1847 to May 1859, succeeding Vasily Fyodorovich Fyodorov . From 1860 to 1864 he was director of the Agricultural Institute in Gorki in the Mogilev Governorate and then until 1867 head of administration and from 1867 to 1875 director of the Imperial Botanical Garden in Saint Petersburg.
Honors
- Order of Saint Anne 3rd Class 1847
- The plant genus Trautvetteria fish. & Mey. from the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae) has been named after him.
Fonts
- Outline of a History of Botany in Relation to Russia , 1837.
- Plantarum imagines et descriptiones floram rossicam illustrantes , 1844–1847.
- Journey to the far north and east of Siberia during the years 1843 and 1844 , second part of the first volume, together with Carl Anton von Meyer , 1847. In it: Florula ochotensis phanerogama .
See also
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- 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 .
- Johann Friedrich von Recke , Karl Eduard Napiersky : [1] General encyclopedia of writers and scholars of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland . Volume 4 S-Z, Mitau 1832, pp. 393-394.
- Траутфеттер, Рудольф Эрнестович. В кн: Лившиц, В.М, Цыганов, А.Р., Саскевич, П.А. Гордость и слава Белорусской государственной сельскохозяйственной академии. - Горки: 2017. - С.5-7.
Web links
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Ernst Rudolph von Trautvetter at the IPNI
References and comments
- ↑ a b c Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Ernst Rudolph von Trautvetter. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- ^ Ernst Rudolph Trautvetter and Johann Heinrich Hochmuth on trips to Kiev; Retrieved January 3, 2015
- ↑ Biography on the website of the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev ; accessed on December 31, 2015
- ↑ Personal-Notizen In: Botanische Zeitung , 5.Jg. 1847, p. 263
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 2067. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trautvetter, Ernst Rudolph von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trautvetter, Ernst Rudolph; Trautvetter, from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baltic German botanist and university rector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mitau , Courland Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1889 |
| Place of death | Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire |