Joseph Woods

Joseph Woods (born August 24, 1776 in Stoke Newington , † January 9, 1864 in Lewes , Sussex ) was an English architect and amateur botanist and geologist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " J.Woods ". The abbreviation “ Woods ” was also used earlier .

Live and act

He worked as an architect in London until 1833 and then devoted himself to botany. He founded the London Architectural Society in 1806. From 1816 he traveled through Europe with an architectural, botanical and geological interest and published about it.

Honor taxon

The genus of the eyelash ferns ( Woodsia R.Br. ) in the family of the eyelash ferns (Woodsiaceae) has been named after him.

Fonts (selection)

• On the Rocks of Attica .
• Letters of an Architect from France, Italy and Greece .
• The tourist's flora . 1850.

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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 .

further reading

• GS Boulger, rev. Susie Barson: Woods, Joseph (1776–1864). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Volume 60: Wolmark – Zuylestein. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861410-1 , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), Last updated: 2004, accessed September 17, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic 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

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Joseph Woods at the IPNI