Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee

Heinrich Wawra Ritter von Fernsee, lithograph by Eduard Kaiser , 1867

Heinrich Wawra Ritter von Fernsee (born as Jindřich Blažej Vávra ; born February 2, 1831 in Brno , Moravia , † May 24, 1881 in Baden near Vienna) was a Moravian, k. k. Austrian ship's doctor , botanist and researcher. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Wawra ".

Live and act

Heinrich Wawra was the youngest of five brothers. His father was a miller by trade. From 1849 to 1855 he studied medicine and botany at the University of Vienna . After graduating, he joined the Austro-Hungarian Navy on December 6, 1855 , which was under the command of Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria .

From 1856 to 1871 he was ship's doctor on various schooners , frigates and corvettes , on which he traveled to Gibraltar , Madeira , Tenerife , Brazil , the Cape of Good Hope , Angola , Ascension , the Cape Verde Islands , Java , Singapore , Thailand , Vietnam , China , Japan , Hawaii , South America , New Zealand , Australia , Ceylon , Hong Kong and Macau sailed.

In 1864 he accompanied Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian a. a. to his enthronement as Emperor of Mexico and the Prince Ludwig August von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha to his marriage in 1884 to Brazil.

From 1872 to 1873 he undertook his first world tour, accompanied by Princes Ferdinand Philipp and Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . After retiring from the navy, from May to August 1879, he accompanied Princes Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and his brother Prince Ferdinand on a trip to Brazil.

Honors

His hometown Brno named the previous street in Old Brno (Staré Brno) after Wawra , but this was reversed in 1919. Today this former Silnická ulice is called “Hybešova” (after Josef Hybeš ).

After Heinrich Wawra the bromeliad genus are fernseea Baker , the genus Neowawraea rock of the family of spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) and the Gesnerienart Cyrtandra wawrae named.

Works (selection)

• Botanical results of the journey of His Majesty the Emperor of Mexico Maximilian I to Brazil (1859-60). On the highest order of which it is described and published. by Heinrich Wawra. Vienna, C. Gerold's son, 1866.
• Itinera principum S. Coburgi: the botanical yield from the trips of Her Highnesses the Princes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, I. Trip of Princes Philip and August around the world (1872-1873), II. Trip of Princes August and Ferdinand to Brazil (1879) described by Heinrich Ritter Wawra v. Fernsee.
• New plant species collected on the transatlantic expedition Sr. k. Highness of the most illustrious Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian. by H. Wawra and Franz Maly, described by Dr. Heinrich Wawra.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Wáwra Ritter von Fernsee, Heinrich . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 50th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1884, pp. 10–15 ( digitized version ).
• Ernst Wunschmann:  Wawra von Fernsee, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 272-276.
• Cyclopaedia of collectors. Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1
• Jindřich Vávra: Rytíř Dalekých Moří . Moravské Zemské Muzeum, Brno 1998, ISBN 80-7028-128-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic 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 .
2. ↑ Hans-Joachim Böttcher: Ferdinand von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha 1861-1948 - A cosmopolitan on the Bulgarian throne . Osteuropazentrum Berlin-Verlag (Anthea Verlagsgruppe), Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89998-296-1 , p. 27-28 .

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee at the IPNI
• Med. Et Chir. Dr. Jindřich Blažej Vávra (Wawra) Encyclopedie Brna ( Czech ).