Karl von Keissler

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Karl von Keissler , also Karl Ritter von Keissler , (born April 13, 1872 in Vienna , † January 9, 1965 ) was an Austrian botanist . He was at the Natural History Museum Vienna and dealt in particular with cryptogams and here with mushrooms and lichens . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Keissl. "

Life

His father was with the Empress Elisabeth Railway , his grandfather was the engineer and builder of the West Railway Karl Ritter von Keissler. Keissler studied natural sciences at the University of Vienna from 1890 and received his doctorate in botany under Julius Wiesner in Vienna in 1895 , was then assistant at the Botanical Garden and Institute in Vienna and from 1899 in the botany department of the Natural History Museum Vienna, where he was assistant in 1902 and in 1913 Custodian (1919 Custodian 1st class) and became its director in 1923 (director 1925). In 1921 he became a councilor and in 1924 a councilor. In 1933 he retired.

Keissler mainly dealt with lichen parasites (fungi that live parasitically on lichens). Further work was on daphne , the plankton in alpine lakes and in part at the museum he initially also dealt with collections of seed plants from Tibet ( later corrected by Handel-Manzetti ) and Brazil. He wrote the article on lichen parasites in the cryptogam flora by Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst and articles on various lichen groups (Moriolaceae, Pyrenulaceae, Coniocarpineen, Cyanophili, Usneaceen). His herbarium is in Vienna.

From 1925 to 1937 he was editor of the annals of the Natural History Museum Vienna.

In 1934 he received the Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .

He had been married since 1906 and had two children.

Honors

The mushroom genera Keissleria Höhn are named after Keissler . , Keissleriella Höhn. , Keisslerina Petr. , Keisslerellum Werner , Keissleriomyces D. Hawksw. and Neokeissleria Petr.

Fonts

  • The lichen parasites , in: Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst , The cryptogam flora of Germany, Austria and Switzerland , 2nd edition, Volume 8, Leipzig 1930

literature

  • Jan-Peter Frahm , Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists, 2001
  • Obituary by Franz Petrak , in: Ann. Naturhist. Museum Wien, 73, 1969, pp. 1–3, PDF (903 kB; German)

Individual evidence

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

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personal data
SURNAME Keissler, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keissler, Karl Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1965