Otto Stapf (botanist)
Otto Stapf (born March 23, 1857 in Perneck near Bad Ischl , † August 3, 1933 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Stapf ".
Life
Otto Stapf received his doctorate in 1882 and completed his habilitation in 1887 at the University of Vienna . After a conflict with Anton Kerner he moved from Marilaun to England and became an English citizen in 1905. From 1891 to 1922 he was in England Head of the herbarium of Kew .
For the work Flora capensis by the English botanist William Turner Thiselton Dyer , he edited "Gramineae" for volume 7 (1898-1900). For the work The Natural Plant Families by Adolf Engler and Carl Prantl , he edited “ Pedaliaceae , Martyniaceae” (Volume 4, Number 3b, 1895). For the Flora of Tropical Africa by Daniel Oliver he wore "Gramineae" at (Volume 9, 1917-1920) and other families from Volume 4 (1904).
He was also the editor of the Index Londinensis to illustrations of flowering plants, ferns and fern allies , 8 volumes, 1929-1941. He was also in retirement still the journal Botanical Magazine , 1922-1933 out. He died in Innsbruck in 1933 on a vacation trip to Austria.
Honors
1908 Stapf was elected as a member (" Fellow ") in the Royal Society . He was also a member of the Linnean Society of London , which awarded him the Linné Medal in 1927 . In 1932 the Royal Horticultural Society honored him with the golden Veitch Memorial Medal .
The plant genera Stapfiella Gilg from the family of turneraceae (Turneraceae) Stapfiola O. Kuntze , Neostapfia Burtt Davy , Ottochloa Dandy and Stapfochloa H.Scholz from the family of the sweet grasses (Poaceae or Gramineae) and Stapfiophyton H.L.Li from the family of melastomataceae (Melastomataceae ) have been named after him.
The botanist Franz Speta founded a series of scientific publications in 1977 in honor of Otto Stapf under the title Stapfia, with works mainly on floristry, the systematics of plants and vegetation. About a quarter of the works relate to zoological topics.
Fonts (selection)
- The Aconites of India. A monograph. In: Annals of the Royal Botanical Garden. Vol. 10, No. 2, 1905, ZDB -ID 997929-3 , pp. 115-197, plates 92-116.
literature
- 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 .
- Franz Speta : Stapf Otto. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 98 f. (Direct links on p. 98 , p. 99 ).
- Dr. Otto Stapf, FRS In: Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information (Royal Gardens, Kew) . Number 8, 1933, pp. 369-378, JSTOR: 4113430 .
Web links
- Otto Stapf on ZOBODAT
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Otto Stapf (botanist) at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c 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 .
- ↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, pages 2056-2057. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
- ↑ entry on Stapf; Otto (1857-1933) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
- ^ Franz Speta: Stapf Otto. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 98 f.
- ^ Website of the Stapfia magazine on ZOBODAT
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stapf, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 23, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Perneck near Bad Ischl |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1933 |
| Place of death | innsbruck |