Hans von Türckheim

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Hans Freiherr von Türckheim (born May 27, 1853 in Karlsruhe ; † May 7, 1920 there ) was a German diplomat and botanist . Its botanical author's abbreviation is “ Türckh. "

Life

Türckheim came from the old imperial knighthood family Türckheim from Ortenau . His father was Hans Freiherr von Türckheim (1814-1892), a diplomat of the Grand Duchy of Baden , who was the Baden envoy in Berlin from 1864 to 1883 and worked privately as a micropalaeontologist , his grandfather the Baden Foreign Minister Johann von Türckheim .

Türckheim studied law at the universities in Strasbourg and Berlin . He passed his state examination in 1876 and was then a trainee lawyer in Ellrich and Delitzsch . For a year he served with the Guard Dragons .

From 1877 to 1908 he lived in Guatemala as a cafetalero (coffee planter). He was the German consul in Cobán and studied the local flora. In 1908 he returned to Karlsruhe. From 1909 to 1910 he made a botanical research trip to the high mountains of the Dominican Republic . Türckheim collected from Santo Domingo , Barahona , Azua , la Vega and from Sanchez and published a report on his trip in the 1911 year of the General Botanical Journal .

The investigation of Türckheim's Guatemala plants was carried out by John Donnell Smith (1829–1928) in Baltimore in 1885 . This publicized the many new species in in Chicago appearing Botanical Gazette . He compiled a list of the Central American species with the Türckheims from the labels printed on the plants under the title Enumeratio plantarum guatemalensium necnon salvadorensium hondurensium nicaraguensium costaricensium (Oquawkae, Ill.: HN Patterson, 1907).

The Türckheim plants were bought by John Donnell Smith , who distributed them, together with those from the other Central American countries, where he had equipped expeditions partly at his own expense, free of charge in eight copies to the eight largest botanical museums in the world under the title Ex plantis Guatemalensibus necnon Salvadorensibus Hondurensibus . The Berlin museum also received 3,309 numbers in this way, including Türckheim's Guatemala plants. The Berlin Museum also received numerous mosses from the years 1885–1888 directly from Türckheim and also 47 numbers Hepaticae and 87 Musci frondosi from the Bryotheca E. Levier (Florence). Many species of moss were also collected, which pleased the bryologists .

Ignaz Urban described the new genera discovered in the Dominican Republic (the Urticaceae Sarcopilea and the Scrophulariaceae Türckheimocharis) as well as the approximately 150 new species in Volume 7 of his Symbolae Antillanae . All of the plants brought by Türckheim from the Dominican Republic (v. 2501-3756) were published by Urban in his Flora Domingensis , Volume 8 of the Symbolae (Volume 1 appeared in 1920).

In 1902 Türckheim got in touch with Rudolf Schlechter to research orchids .

Türckheim was very fluent in languages ​​and spoke the ancient languages, English, French, Spanish and Central American languages. During the war he was used to check prisoner correspondence at the post office, and he had the rank of Rittmeister .

After a long illness, Hans von Türckheim died on February 7, 1920 in Karlsruhe. He bequeathed his herbarium to the Botanical Museum in Berlin .

Honors

The plant genera Tuerckheimia Dammer ex Donn.Sm. are named after him. from the palm family (Arecaceae), Neotuerckheimia Donn.Sm. from the family of the trumpet tree plants (Bignoniaceae) and Tuerckheimocharis Urb. from the fig family (Scrophulariaceae).

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  • Johann Andreas Kneucker: Hans Freiherr von Türckheim . In: General Botanical Journal of Systematics, floristry, plant geography etc . G. Braunsche Hofbuchdruckerei and Verlag, Karlsruhe 1922, p. 33–36 ( digitized version - Volume 24/25 1918/1919, No. 9–12).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans von Türckheim: Botanical research trip in Santo Domingo in the years 1909 and 1910. In: Allgemeine Botanischen Zeitschrift , XVII. Year (1911), issue 8, pp. 101-106 and issue 9, pp. 129-135 in the Internet Archive
  2. ↑ 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 .

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personal data
SURNAME Türckheim, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Türckheim, Hans Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1920
Place of death Karlsruhe