Johannes Müller Argoviensis
Johannes Müller Argoviensis (born May 9, 1828 in Teufenthal , Canton Aargau , † January 28, 1896 in Geneva , entitled to live in Unterkulm ) was a Swiss botanist , university professor and author . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Müll.Arg. "
His real name was Johannes or Johann Müller, but in publications he named himself after the canton of Aargau (his homeland) with the addition Argoviensis. This was suggested to him first to distinguish between botanists of the same name Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius , to whose flora Brasiliensis Müller contributed.
Live and act
Müller Argoviensis, who came from a family of farmers, attended high school in Reinach AG and the industrial school in Aargau . With the support of Hans Schinz , Müller set up a private herbarium and when he continued his studies in Geneva in 1850, through the mediation of Theodor Zschokke, he came into contact with important botanists such as Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle , where he became the curator of his herbarium and worked as such until 1874 was. During this time he was an important collaborator for Candolle and his work on plant systematics , the Prodromus systematis regni vegetalis . He was also the curator of the herbarium of Edmond Boissier .
In 1851 he collected in southern France (with the pastor Duby) and then in Austria (Tyrol, area of Salzburg ), Lombardy , the Savoy Alps, Piedmont and the Aosta Valley . Müller was from 1868 private lecturer in Geneva and from 1871 extraordinary professor for medical botany in Geneva. From 1876 until his resignation for health reasons in 1889, he was a full professor of systematic botany in Geneva. He was also director of the Geneva Botanical Gardens and the Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert herbarium .
Müller was one of the most important systematists of the «Geneva School». Numerous plants that he described and named for the first time bear his author's name, including the rubber tree , whose scientific name is: Hevea Brasiliensis Müller Argoviensis .
Müller wrote the monograph on the milkweed family ( Euphorbiaceae) in seven years and was the author of a total of 153 publications. He was considered an expert on lichens , wrote monographs on the Resedaceae (1857, subject of his dissertation at the University of Zurich, which also won him the Prix Candolle), Euphorbiaceae , Characeae , Apocynaceae and contributed to the Prodromus of Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle and Flora Brasiliensis by Martius at. His lichen catalog from 1862 was considered the standard work of his time. Müller also dealt with mosses and mushrooms.
Its collections were acquired from the Boissier Herbarium.
From 1878 to 1882 he was President of the Botanical Society of Geneva. He was a member of the Linnean Society of London , the German Botanical Society, the Royal Belgian Botanical Society, the Moscow Society of Naturalists and the Leopoldina .
Müller had been married to Maria, nee Hilfiker, since 1858. Together they had a son who died before them.
Honors
The plant genera Argomuellera Pax from the milkweed family (Euphorbiaceae), Muellerargia Cogn. from the cucurbit family (Cucurbitaceae) and Neomuellera Briq. from the mint family (Lamiaceae) have been named in his honor.
literature
- Ernst Wunschmann: Müller, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 515 f.
- Max Oettli : Johann Müller (1828-1896). In: Argovia, annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau , Vol. 68–69, 1958, pp. 562–563 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
Web links
- Barbara Erni: Müller, Argoviensis, Johannes . In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 16, 2007.
- Müller, Johann (Argoviensis). In: German biography
- Müller, Johann Argoviensis In: WorldCat
- Nordisk Familjebok
- John Briquet, Notice sur la vie et les œuvres de Jean Müller, Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier, Geneva, 1896
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Johannes Müller Argoviensis at the IPNI
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SURNAME | Müller Argoviensis, Johannes |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Müller, Johannes; Müller, Johann |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss botanist |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1828 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Teufenthal |
DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1896 |
Place of death | Geneva |