Heinrich Wilhelm Schott

Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (baptized January 9, 1794 in Brno , † March 5, 1865 in Vienna ) was an Austrian botanist and gardener. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Schott ".

Life

Schott took part in the Austrian expedition to Brazil between 1817 and 1821 and was appointed court gardener in Vienna in 1828 . From 1845 until his death, Schott acted as director of the court gardens and the imperial menagerie . In 1852 he also led the redesign of the Schönbrunn Palace Park into a partially English complex.

In 1857 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Schott became known in particular for his research into the alpine flora, where he founded the Alpine Garden in the Belvedere . He also enriched the Viennese court gardens with his collections in Brazil .

Honors

After Schott plant species were Schottariella P.C.Boyce & SYWong and Schottarum P.C.Boyce & SYWong from the family of Arum named (Araceae).

Fonts

Meletemata botanica (together with Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher ), 1832
Rutaceae. Fragmenta botanica , 1834
Genera Filicum , 1834-1836
Analecta botanica (together with Carl Frederik Nyman and Karl Georg Theodor Kotschy ), 1854
Synopsis Aroidearum , 1856
Aroideae , 1853-1857
Icones Aroidearum , 1857
Genera Aroidearum exposita , 1858
Prodromus systematis Aroidearum , 1860

swell

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 .

literature

Henricus Schott, Stephanus [Stephan Ladislaus] Finisher : Meletemata botanica facsimile print , Cramer, Weinheim 1964 (first edition: Gerold, Vindobonae [Vienna] 1832).
Constantin von Wurzbach : Schott, Heinrich Wilhelm . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 31st part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1876, pp. 245–251 ( digitized version ).
Ernst Wunschmann: Schott, Heinrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 399-402.
H. Riedl: Schott Heinrich Wilhelm. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 152 f. (Direct links on p. 152 , p. 153 ).
Christa Riedl-Dorn: Schott, Heinrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 494 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Literature by and about Heinrich Wilhelm Schott in the catalog of the German National Library
Author entry and list of the described plant names for Heinrich Wilhelm Schott at the IPNI

Individual evidence

^ Moravský zemský archiv Brno, Brno - sv. Tomáš 16995, p. 65
↑ Member entry of Heinrich Wilhelm Schott at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 22, 2016.
↑ 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	Schott, Heinrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	baptized January 7, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brno
DATE OF DEATH	March 5, 1865
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Moravský zemský archiv Brno, Brno - sv. Tomáš 16995, p. 65

[2] Member entry of Heinrich Wilhelm Schott at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 22, 2016.

[Burkhardt_2018-3] 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 .