Joseph Charles Arthur

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Joseph Charles Arthur

Joseph Charles Arthur (born January 11, 1850 in Lowville , New York , † April 30, 1942 in Brook , Indiana ) was an American botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Arthur ".

Life

Arthur was born on January 11, 1850 in Lowville, New York, United States. When he was a young child, his family moved to Charles City , Iowa . In 1869 he began studying at Iowa Agricultural College, now Iowa State University in Ames . In 1872 he graduated with a Bachelor of Sciences (BS). In 1877 he received his Master of Science (M.Sc.) in botany.

He studied at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts ; from 1879 to 1881 he was an assistant ("instructor") at the University of Wisconsin , in 1882 he was an "instructor" at the University of Minnesota . From 1884 to 1886 he was a botanist at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York .

In 1886 he received a doctorate (Sc.D.) in plant pathology and mycology from Cornell University in Ithaca , New York . Shortly afterwards he went to Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana , where he founded the Department of Botany and was to lead from 1887 to 1915.

Arthur specialized in real rust fungi (Uredinales), an order of plant parasitic fungi. During his time at Purdue University, he founded the herbarium (named after him as the "Arthur Herbarium"), which continues to be a leading research institution for rust fungi.

Arthur was a member of the Indiana Academy of Science and, in 1893, its president. As a member of the Botanical Society of America , he was president in 1902 and again in 1910. He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected in 1923) and the American Philosophical Society . He was also active at the International Botanical Congress .

In 1901 he married Emily Stiles Potter from Lafayette , Indiana . He died on April 30, 1942 in Brook, Indiana .

Works

Arthur was co-author and editor of The Plant Rusts (1929). For the Flora of North America by the American botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton , he contributed to volume 7 of the sections on "Uredinales" (numbers 2 to 12, 1907 to 1927). Arthur published many other scientific papers on rust fungi .

literature

  • Edwin Butterworth Mains: Joseph Charles Arthur (1850-1942) . In: Mycologia . tape 34 , no. 6 , 1942, pp. 601-605 .
  • 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 .

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