Franz Adam von Waldstein-Wartenberg
Franz de Paula Adam Norbert Wenzel Ludwig Valentin von Waldstein-Wartenberg (* February 14, 1759 in Vienna ; † May 24, 1823 in Oberleutensdorf , Bohemia ) was originally an Austrian military, then an Imperial and Royal Chamberlain, botanist , researcher and natural scientist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Waldst. "
biography
Franz Adam was the third son of Emanuel Philibert von Waldstein-Wartenberg and his wife Maria Anna Theresia von Liechtenstein . He was married to Carolina Ferdinandi (1777-1844). As a soldier he took part in the war against the Turks and in Russia. He devoted himself to botany from 1789 and traveled with Paul Kitaibel (1757-1817) through Hungary. His herbarium is archived in Prague.
Together with Kitaibel he is the main author of Francisci comitis Waldstein… et Pauli Kitaibel… Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae (MA Schmidt, Vienna, three editions 1802–1812; folio (465 × 332 mm)).
His widow Carolina had the Gräflich Waldstein crypt chapel built in the cemetery of the parish church of St. Michael in Oberleutensdorf in 1823. The monument for Franz Adam von Waldstein created for 1000 guilders is the work of the Dresden sculptor Franz Pettrich .
Franz Adam von Waldstein-Wartenberg was the brother of Joseph Karl Emanuel, Johann Friedrich and Ferdinand Ernst von Waldstein and Wartenberg .
plant
The book is important for the flora of Central Europe and is magnificently furnished; the panels, 16 of them in double format, are colored by hand. The Descriptiones et Icones are extremely rare; they belong to the rarities of botanical literature; This is particularly true of the last volume published in the Napoleonic War Confusion.
Honors
In 1804 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Since 1814 he was an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
The genus Waldsteinia Willd. from the rose family (Rosaceae) has been named after him. The naming of the Waldstein bellflower ( Campanula waldsteiniana ) was also in his honor.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Waldstein, Franz de Paula Adam Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 52nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1885, pp. 234–236 ( digitized version ).
- 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 .
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Franz Adam von Waldstein-Wartenberg at the IPNI
- Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein and Pál Kitaibel: Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae at Biblioteca Digital del Real Jardín Botanico CSIC [1]
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Gottfried Sommer The Kingdom of Bohemia, Vol. 1 Leitmeritzer Kreis, 1833, p. 143
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 251.
- ↑ 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 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waldstein-Wartenberg, Franz Adam von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waldstein-Wartenberg, Franz de Paula Adam Norbert Wenzel Ludwig Valentin von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1759 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 1823 |
| Place of death | Oberleutensdorf , Bohemia |