Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti (botanist)

Heinrich Raphael Eduard von Handel-Mazzetti , Freiherr von Handel-Mazzetti, (born February 19, 1882 in Vienna , † February 1, 1940 ibid) was an Austrian botanist known for researching the flora of China . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Hand.-Mazz. ".

Life

His father Eduard (1838–1898) was president of the highest military court of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, his mother Friederika (1853–1921) an ethnologist. Handel-Mazetti studied (against the will of his father) from 1901 botany at the University of Vienna with his doctorate in 1907. From 1905 he was an assistant at the University's Botanical Institute and from 1923 at the Natural History Museum in Vienna , where he became curator in 1925. The innovations he was striving for there met resistance and he was dismissed in 1931, but continued his scientific work, where he now paid his assistants himself.

He has been collecting plants in Tyrol since his youth . He later went on collecting trips to Switzerland (1906), Bosnia (1904, 1909) and Herzegovina (1909), Abruzzo (1924), Thessaly (1927), Trebizond (1907), the Middle East (Iraq, Turkey, 1910) and from 1914 to 1919 in southwest China on behalf of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . The stay there was extended by the First World War and he also mapped in China. After the war he evaluated the China collection and also edited collections of other researchers from China as a well-known expert on the flora of China. Many first descriptions and a plant geography of China come from him. An overall representation of the flora of China prevented his death in a traffic accident. He was unmarried.

He was the cousin of the writer Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti . His brother Hermann (1883–1963) was senior councilor and nature conservation officer of the Tyrolean provincial government as well as co-founder of the Tyrolean Mountain Rescue and his brother Eduard (1885–1950) major and painter. Handel-Manzetti was an avid mountaineer.

Fonts

• Images of nature from south-west China: experiences and impressions of an Austrian researcher during the world war. Austrian Federal Publishing House for Education, Science and Art, Vienna 1927.
• The north-east Burmese-west Yunnanese high mountain area. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1927.
• Anthophyta (= Symbolae Sinicae. Botanical results of the expedition of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna to Southwest China 1914/1918. Volume 7). Springer, Vienna 1929 to 1936.
• Mesopotamia. Series of vegetation images. Fischer, Jena 1912.
• Kurdistan. Series of vegetation images. Fischer, Jena 1912.
• Central China. Series of vegetation images. Fischer, Jena 1922.
• Highlands and high mountains of Yunnan and southwest Setschwan. Several volumes. Fischer, Jena.
• Monograph of the genus Taraxacum, 1907.
• The vegetation conditions of Mesopotamia and Kurdistan. In: Scientific results of the expedition to Mesopotamia, 1910 (= Annals of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. 28), Vienna 1914, pp. 48–111 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

Honors

The plant genera Handelia Heimerl and Mazzettia Iljin from the daisy family (Asteraceae) and Handel iodendron Rehder from the soap tree family (Sapindaceae) are named after Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti .

Secondary literature

• Winstanley, David: A Botanical Pioneer in South West China. Experiences and Impressions of an Austrian Botanist during the First World War . 192 p., Essex 1996. (First published as Naturbilder aus Südwest-China 1927. English translation, complete and unabridged, with biography of H. v. Handel-Mazzetti by David Winstanley.)

literature

• Helmut Dolezal:  Handel-Mazzetti, Heinrich Raphael Eduard Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 606 ( digitized version ).
• Handel-Mazzetti Heinrich Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1959, p. 175 f. (Direct links on p. 175 , p. 176 ).

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti (botanist) at the IPNI
• Entry on Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti (botanist) in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Handel-Mazzetti, Heinrich . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . 2nd revised edition (online only).
• Bibliography by Handel-Mazzetti on ZOBODAT (PDF files).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names. Volume 2, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7 , p. 1945.
2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin, Berlin 2018 (two PDF files on bgbm.org).