Imre Friváldszky from Friváld

Imre Friváldszky von Friváld , German Em (m) erich Frivaldszky , Friwaldsky von Friwald (born February 6, 1799 in Bacskó , Semplin county ; † April 3, 1870 in Jobbágyi ) was a Hungarian , k. k. Austrian botanist , entomologist and doctor . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Friv. ".

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He was director of the Hungarian National Museum from 1822 to 1851 . Von Friváld described previously unknown or unclassified plants from the Balkans and Turkey . As an entomologist, he studied butterflies and beetles . He is a close relative of the zoologist János Frivaldszky (1822–1895).

Between 1835 and 1845 he organized and financed four expeditions to what is now Bulgaria (then European Turkey), but did not travel to Turkey until 1846. His assistants (Andras Füle, Anton Rochel and others) brought botanical and zoological collections to Hungary. In 1835 he described the Gesneria family Haberlea rhodopensis found in the Balkan Mountains of Bulgaria for the first time.

Honors

According to him, the plant genera Frivaldia Endl. and Frivaldzkia Rchb. named from the sunflower family (Asteraceae).

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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

Frivaldszky Emmerich from. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 371 f. (Direct links on p. 371 , p. 372 ).

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Imre Friváldszky von Friváld at the IPNI
Imre Frivaldszky , in: A Pallas Nagy Lexikona (Hungarian)

Individual evidence

↑ Z. Szelag, L. Somlyay: History of discovery and typification of Haberlea rhodopensis Friv. (Gesneriaceae). Ann. Bot. Fennici 46, 2009, pp. 555-558 PDF
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

personal data
SURNAME	Friváld, Imre Friváldszky from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian botanist, entomologist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 6, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bacskó , Semplin county
DATE OF DEATH	April 3, 1870
Place of death	Jobbágyi

[szelag+somlyay2009-1] Z. Szelag, L. Somlyay: History of discovery and typification of Haberlea rhodopensis Friv. (Gesneriaceae). Ann. Bot. Fennici 46, 2009, pp. 555-558 PDF

[Burkhardt2018-2] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]