Johann Baptist Wiesbaur

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Johann Baptist Wiesbaur SJ (born June 15, 1836 in Wallnstorf near Gunskirchen , Upper Austria ; † November 8, 1906 at Leschna Castle , Moravia ) was an Austrian clergyman, botanist and mineralogist . Its botanical author's abbreviation is “ Wiesb. ".

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Wiesbaur was initially a Jesuit priest in Linz . Later he taught at the college in Kalksburg and at various religious institutions in Bohemia. From 1898 he was a high school professor in Duppau . Most recently, Wiesbaur managed the natural science collections of Count von Seilern and Aspang at Leschna Castle as custodian .

Wiesbaur described u. a. the flora and fauna of the Leitha conglomerate and examined fossil plants in the marine tertiary conglomerate in Kalksburg . He also dealt with mineralogy and was a correspondent for the Geological Reichsanstalt . In Duppau he recognized that the Flurbühl above the city is the magma slot of a tertiary super volcano .

Works

• together with Michael Haselberger : Contributions to the rose flora of Upper Austria, Salzburg and Bohemia . 1891.

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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 .

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Johann Baptist Wiesbaur at the IPNI

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography
2. ↑ Wiesbaur (1901): III. Original messages - Theralith in the Duppau Mountains - Lotos - Journal of Natural Sciences - 49: 62 - 71.