Pál Kitaibel
Pál Kitaibel (also Paul Kitaibel or Paulus Kitaibelius ; born February 3, 1757 in Nagymarton (Hungary), today Mattersburg ; † December 13, 1817 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian botanist , doctor and chemist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Kit. "
Career
Kitaibel attended the grammar school in Sopron (Ödenburg), the Lyceum in Győr (Raab) and went to the university in Ofen around 1780 , in order to study medicine after unsuccessful attempts in law and theology. He also studied chemistry and botany there. After the death of his sponsor Professor Johann Jakob Winterl in 1809, Kitaibel took over his chair and taught these two disciplines in Pest in 1794, where he was also director of the botanical garden . In 1804 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .
In the period from 1795 to 1815 he explored the flora on a total of 16 trips through Hungary. In his investigations, the researcher worked in an interdisciplinary manner, which earned him the name of a " homo universalis of science" in Hungary. After suffering severe suffering, he died on December 13, 1817.
In addition to work on the flora and hydrography of Hungary, he discovered tellurium almost simultaneously with Franz Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1740-1825).
Honors
The genus Kitaibela Willd. from the Mallow family (Malvaceae) has been named after him.
Works
- Together with Franz Adam von Waldstein-Wartenberg (1759-1823) he is the main author of Francisci comitis Waldstein: Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae (MA Schmidt, Vienna, three volumes 1802-1812; folio (465 × 332 mm)).
- Hydrographica Hungariae. Praemissa auctoris vita. Edidit Joannes Schuster. Pest, JM Trattner de Petróza, 1829. 2 editions.
- Brief analysis of Szalatnya mineral water.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Kitaibel, Paul . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 11th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, pp. 337–339 ( digitized version ).
- Heinrich Wilhelm Reichardt : Kitaibel, Paul . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 40.
- Kindergarten Paul. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1965, p. 357 f. (Direct links on p. 357 , p. 358 ).
- 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 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Pál Kitaibel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Pál Kitaibel at the IPNI
- Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein and Pál Kitaibel: Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae (Vol. 1 and 2) at Biblioteca Digital del Real Jardín Botanico CSIC
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 132.
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kitaibel, Pál |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kitaibel, Paul; Kitaibelius, Paulus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1757 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mattersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1817 |
| Place of death | Budapest |