José Mariano Mociño
José Mariano Mociño y Losada also Mosińo , Moziño and Lozada (born September 24, 1757 in Temascaltepec , Mexico , † May 19, 1820 in Barcelona , Spain ) was a Spanish-Mexican doctor and botanist . Its botanical author abbreviation is Moc.
Life
José Mariano Mociño studied experimental physics , mathematics , botany and chemistry at the Seminario Tridentino de México .
From 1791 he accompanied Martín Sessé y Lacasta and José Longinos Martínez on the great botanical expedition through New Spain , which was to record and collect the flora of the colony for the first time. After a first lap in central Mexico, Mociño drove north along the Pacific coast and reached Nootka Sound in what is now Canada in 1792 . He then explored the nature of Guatemala from 1795 to 1799.
In 1803 Sessé returned to Spain, at the same time Mociño also went to Europe; They had extensive plant samples, drawings and notes in their luggage. When Sessé fell seriously ill in 1808, Mociño was with him until his death.
He worked in Madrid on the publication of the results of the expedition and was temporarily director of the natural history collection in Madrid. At the same time he practiced as a doctor. He worked on the research project of the Academia de Medicina in Madrid to study yellow fever .
During the Spanish liberation war against Joseph Bonaparte , he was accused of a pro-French attitude. In 1812 he went into exile in Montpellier , where he made the acquaintance of the Swiss botanist Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle , to whom he entrusted a large part of his notes and samples. He followed Candolle to Geneva in 1816 and returned to Spain in 1819, where he died in Barcelona in 1820.
The research results of the great botanical expedition were only published at the end of the 19th century.
Honors
The plant genera Mocinna Cerv are named after Mocino . ex La Llave from the melon tree family (Caricaceae) and Mocinnodaphne Lorea-Hern. from the laurel family (Lauraceae).
Web links
- Biography (spanish)
- Biography (spanish)
- José Mariano Mociño , entry in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (English)
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for José Mariano Mociño at the IPNI
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 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mociño, José Mariano |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hispanic-Mexican doctor and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1757 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Temascaltepec , Mexico |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1820 |
| Place of death | Barcelona , Spain |