Justus Karl Hasskarl
Justus Karl Haßkarl (born December 6, 1811 in Kassel , † January 5, 1894 in Kleve ) was a German traveler and naturalist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Hassk. "
Live and act
Haßkarl learned gardening at the Botanical Garden in Poppelsdorf from 1827 and from 1834 devoted himself to natural history studies at the University of Bonn in order to prepare for scientific trips. In 1836 he went to Java , got a job as a hortulanus (gardener) at the botanical garden in Buitenzorg (Bogor) and made many trips and trips in the interior of the country. He returned home in 1846 and accepted the secretariat of the Chamber of Commerce in Düsseldorf. In 1847 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
In 1852 he went to Lima on behalf of the Dutch government and in the spring of 1853 to the interior of Peru to plant the cinchona tree in Java. He sent seeds from Uchubamba to Holland, and in 1854 he reached the coast with about 500 young Cinchona calisaya kina trees from near the Brazilian border east of Lake Titicaca . His return was like an escape, as the real purpose of his trip had become known. When he arrived in Java he immediately introduced the culture of the Chinese trees, but had to return to Europe in 1856 for his health and resigned from the Dutch civil service.
Last residing in Kleve, Haßkarl was particularly concerned with the East Indian flora; he also took part in the botanical part of Peters' work on Mozambique and examined and described the Commelinaceae of the Georg Schweinfurth collection of Abyssinian plants. He also took care of the German editions of some of Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn's works and the translation of Alfred Whaley Cole's work. He worked for some families in the Plantae Junghuhnianae (Leiden 1851–52).
Honors
The genus Hasskarlia Baill was named in his honor . the plant family of the milkweed family (Euphorbiaceae). In 1858 the University of Greifswald appointed him Dr. hc
Works
- Catalogus Plantarum in Horto Botanico Bogoriensi cultarum alter Lands-Drukkerij (Batavia 1844)
- Filices javanicae (Batavia 1856);
- Retzia observationes botanicae de plantis horti botanici Bogoriensis (Leiden 1856);
- Hortus Bogoriensis descr. seu Retziae editio nova (1st part, Amsterdam 1858; 2nd part in Bonplandia 1859).
- New key to Rumph's Herbarium amboinense (Halle 1866);
- Horti malabarici Rheedeani clavis locupletissima (Dresden 1867)
- Commelinaceae indicae (Vienna 1870).
Translations
- Plantae javanicae rariores (Berlin 1847)
- Alfred Whaley Cole: The Cape and the Kaffirs or messages about my five-year stay in South Africa: With the portr. of the Kaffir chief Macomo . Leipzig: Arnold, 1852.
literature
- Richard Kräusel: Haßkarl, Justus Karl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 50 ( digitized version ).
- Hermann Krieger : The robbery of the China tree. Adventure-packed tropical trips by a German naturalist. Westermann, Braunschweig and Hamburg 1924; A novel about Haßkarl's trip to Peru, from where the seeds and sprouts of the cinchona tree were brought to the Dutch East Indies .
- Ernst Wunschmann: Haßkarl, Justus Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 58-60.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Justus Karl Haßkarl at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hasskarl, Justus Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German traveler and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 1894 |
| Place of death | Kleve |