John Stevens Henslow

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John Stevens Henslow

John Stevens Henslow (born February 6, 1796 in Rochester , † May 16, 1861 in Hitcham , Suffolk ) was an English botanist and geologist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Hensl. "

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Henslow was from 1822 to 1827 a full professor of mineralogy at the University of Cambridge and from 1827 of botany at the same university. In 1831 he founded the Botanical Garden at Cambridge University . Henslow was a clergyman at Little St. Mary's Church in Cambridge from 1824. In 1833 he was vicar in Chelsey and in 1837 pastor in Hitcham (Suffolk).

Henslow was the teacher of Charles Darwin and recommended him for the trip with the HMS Beagle . His daughter Francis Harriet married the botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker , his granddaughter Harriet Anne married the botanist William Turner Thiselton-Dyer .

Honors

The plant genus Henslowia Wall is named after him . from the family of the Penaeaceae .

Fonts (selection)

  • Geological description of Anglesea . Cambridge: J. Smith, 1822.
  • A catalog of British plants: arranged according to the natural system, with the synonyms of de Candolle, Smith, Lindley, and Hooker . Cambridge, 1817 ( 2nd edition, 1835 ).
  • Descriptive and physiological botany . London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1836 ( doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.19490 ).
  • Dictionary of Botanical Terms . London 1857 ( doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.125390 ).

literature

  • Nora Barlow [eds.]: Darwin and Henslow: the growth of an idea; letters 1831 - 1860 . London 1967
  • SM Walters & EA Stow: Darwin's mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796-1861 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001
  • Leonard Jenyns: Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow . John Van Voorst 1862 online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Henslow, John Stevens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English botanist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1861
Place of death Hitcham , Suffolk