Lorenz Chrysanth from Vest

Lorenz Chrysanth von Vest, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1840

Lorenz Chrysanth (Edler) von Vest (born November 18, 1776 in Klagenfurt , † December 15, 1840 in Graz ) was an Austrian doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Vest ".

Live and act

Lorenz Chrysanth von Vest was the son of the doctor Lorenz Chrysanth Edler von Vest (1720–1789), who was raised to the nobility because of his services. He received his training first in Klagenfurt and then attended high school in Salzburg . He began his medical studies in Vienna in 1795 and continued in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1797 , where he received his doctorate in medicine in March 1798. During his studies in Freiburg he wrote several freedom songs, for which he was arrested in Vienna in autumn 1798 and sentenced to lifelong military service. Due to the good relations of his family, he was released from military service in 1800.

After his return to Klagenfurt in March 1800 he settled there as a doctor and gained a good reputation, especially as an ophthalmologist. In 1804 he married and became professor of medicine at the Klagenfurt Lyceum . At the request of Archduke Johann , he became professor of botany and chemistry at the newly founded Joanneum Graz in 1812 . In 1829 he was appointed Gubernialrat and Provincial Protomedicus of Styria . In this function he earned services for the reorganization of the pharmacy, improvement of hygiene, establishment of an institution for the deaf and dumb, introduction of the smallpox vaccination, organization of midwifery, an improved cemetery order. In 1833/34 he was rector of the University of Graz.

He is best known as an author through the two botanical writings Manuale botanicum (1805) and Instructions for a thorough study of botany (1815). But he also wrote contributions for the Medicinische Jahrbuch the imperial-royal Austrian state and the annals of physics . From 1821 he was co-editor of the Steiermärkische Zeitschrift .

Honors

In his honor was the genus Vestia Willd. named from the plant family of the nightshade family (Solanaceae). In Graz, the Lorenz-Vest-Weg in Liebenau is named after him.

Works

Description of how the Ertz-Duchy of Carinthia is stored and procured by nature, including Latin notes about some minerals and their use in Artzney art . Klagenfurt 1754.
Manuale botanicum inserviens excursionibus botanicis, sistens stirpes totius Germaniae phaenogamas, quarum genera triplici sytsemate [sic] corollino, carpico et sexuali coordinata, specierumque characteres observationibus illustrati sunt . Klagenfurt 1805.
- Review of the Manuale botanicum. In: Allgemeine Literaturzeitung . 1808, Vol. 1, No. 71, March 7, 1808, Col. 561-566.
Instructions for a thorough study of botany with an overview of the construction of natural history classification systems, a critique of Jussieu's, and the main features of a new natural system . Vienna 1818.

literature

Umberto Quattrocchi: CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names. Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology. CRC Press, Boca Raton 2000, p. 1507.
Werner Sauer : Austrian philosophy between enlightenment and restoration. Contributions to the history of early Kantianism in the Danube monarchy. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1982, p. 250.
Anton Schlossar : Vest, Lorenz Chrysanth Edler von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 651-653.
Constantin von Wurzbach : Vest, Lorenz Chrysanth Edler von (son) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 50th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1884, pp. 215–222 ( digitized version ).
Robert Zander : Concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold. 14th edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8001-5063-8 .

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 .

Web links

Author entry and list of the plant names described for Lorenz Chrysanth von Vest at the IPNI
Estate in the University Library Graz

personal data
SURNAME	Vest, Lorenz Chrysanth from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vest, Lorenz Chrysanth Edler von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 18, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH	Klagenfurt
DATE OF DEATH	December 15, 1840
Place of death	Graz

[Burkhardt_2018-1] 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 .