Georg Cufodontis

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Georg Cufodontis (born August 3, 1896 in Trieste , † November 18, 1974 in Vienna ) was a k. u. k. Austrian , Italian botanist and professor . Its botanical author abbreviation is “ Cufod. "; earlier the abbreviation “ Cuf. " in use.

Life

Chaetolepis cufodontisii from Costa Rica is named after Georg Cufodontis.

Cufodontis attended school in Trieste. After graduating from high school in April 1915, he enrolled at the University of Vienna and studied biology. During his studies he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Vienna . After receiving his doctorate in December 1921, he went traveling and worked partly in his parents' company. Financially secured by private assets, he then spent the years 1927 to 1933 doing private scientific studies at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. In 1930 he took part as a botanist on an Austrian scientific expedition to Costa Rica . He succeeded in first describing new plant species. In 1934 Cufodontis accepted a position as an assistant at the University of Genoa, but was dismissed there in 1938 for refusing to join the fascist party. He therefore returned to Vienna, where he was initially employed for a short period in 1940 at the Natural History Museum and then until 1943 acting head of the Vienna State Gardens. In 1947 he completed his habilitation as a private lecturer for systematic botany and plant geography and in 1949 moved to the Botanical Institute of the University of Vienna, of which he was also director. In 1954 he was appointed associate professor and in 1964 full professor.

Honors

The genus Cufodontia Woodson from the family of dog poison plants (Apocynaceae) was named after Cufodontis .

Works

  • Critical revision of Senecio sectio Tephroseris . Self-published, Dahlem near Berlin 1933.
  • The botanical results of Fr. J. Bieber's travels in Ethiopia . Vienna 1947.
  • Overview of the African hibiscus species from the Bombycella section . In: Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna . tape 56 , p. 24-59 .
  • First attempt to unravel the complex "Kalanchoe laciniata (L.) DC." In: Bulletin du Jardin botanique de l'État a Bruxelles . tape 27 , no. 4 , December 1957, p. 709-718 .
  • Three new types of Kalanchoë from Kenya and Tanzania . In: Plant Systematics and Evolution . tape 114 , no. 2 , 1967, ISSN  0378-2697 , pp. 149-155 .
  • Enumeratio Plantarum Aethiopiae Spermatophyta . (25 volumes, 1953-1972).
  • Supplement: Enumeratio Plantarum Aethiopiae Spermatophyta (Sequentia) . In: Bulletin du Jardin botanique national de Belgique / Bulletin van de National Plantentuin van België . tape 39 , no. 3 , September 1969, p. 1339-1386 .
  • Crassulaceae, Celastraceae, Thymelaeaceae and Compositae from the Tanasee area and the Semyen Mountains (=  Stuttgart contributions to natural history from the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart . No. 195 ). 1968.
  • Nouvelle flore de la Belgique, du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, du nord de la France et des régions voisines . 1974.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Gerlach (Ed.): Kösener Corps lists 1930 . Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 1341, serial no.218
  2. ^ Georg Cufodontis: Results of the Austrian Biological Costa Rica Expedition 1930 , Part II: Botanical Results (= Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Volume 46). 1932/1933, p. 225 ff.
  3. ^ Theodor Felsenstein: Funeral speech for Georg Cufodontis . In: Corpszeitung der Saxonia Wien , 1975, p. 9 f.
  4. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Cufodontis, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian botanist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1974
Place of death Vienna