George Edward Post
George Edward Post (born December 17, 1838 in New York City , † April 1, 1909 in Syria ) was an American doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Post ".
Life
Post was professor of surgery at the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut (now the American University of Beirut ).
In 1896 he published the first modern monograph on the flora of the Middle East. He first described around 221 taxa of plants from Syria and the surrounding area. Mostly he published this in the Bulletin of the Herbarium of Pierre Edmond Boissier in Geneva (as a series of articles Plantae Postianae , 10 parts 1890 to 1900) and in the Linnean Society Journal. In addition to botany and natural history, he published on medicine and theology.
His herbarium is at the American University of Beirut.
Honors
According to Post, the plant genera are Postia Boiss. & CIBlanche from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) and Postiella Kljuykov from the umbelliferae family (Apiaceae).
Fonts
- Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai. A handbook of the flowering plants and ferns, native and naturalized from the Taurus to Ras Muhammad and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Syrian Desert, Beirut: Syrian Protestant College 1896. 2nd edition (edited by John Edward Dinsmore) 1932–1933.
literature
- LJ Musselman, NS Saoud: The Type Specimens of George Edward Post in Beirut and Geneva. Turkish Journal of Botany, Volume 28, 2004, pp. 155–160, PDF (39.5 kB; English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 2022. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
Web links
- Author entry and list of described plant names for George Edward Post at IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Post, George Edward |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Post (botanical author abbreviation) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physician and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1909 |
| Place of death | Syria |