Peter von Glehn

Peter von Glehn ( Russian Пётр Петрович фон Глен * October 27 ^jul. / 8. November 1835 ^greg. In the village Jälgimäe in Saku (Estonia) ; † April 4 ^jul. / 16th April 1876 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Baltic German botanist , explorer , geographer and hydrograph . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Glehn ".

Life

Peter von Glehn was the son of the landlord Peter von Glehn (1796–1843), who had bought the Jälgimäe estate in 1821, and his wife Auguste Caroline Marie nee. Burchart von Bellavary (1814–1862), who ran the Tallinn council pharmacy . His younger brother Nikolai von Glehn (1841–1923) founded Nõmme .

Peter von Glehn has been enthusiastic about botany since his youth . He studied at the University of Tartu in the Physico-Mathematical Faculty and received in 1860 the candidate - Diploma for his work Flora around Dorpats .

During this time Russia opened up large areas in Outer Manchuria , in the Far East coastal region and on Sakhalin . For this purpose, the Russian Geographical Society prepared a research expedition, the direction of which the assistant to the director of the Botanical Garden was appointed by Dorpat Friedrich Schmidt . Schmidt invited Glehn to participate and left for the Far East in 1859. Glehn was on March 1, 1860 the expedition squad received, he immediately that from St. Petersburg to Nikolaevsk-on-Amur departed and arrived in July on Sakhalin. Until September he explored the area south of Alexandrowsk-Sakhalinsky and then the north of the island, first by boat and then by sledge. In spring 1861 he returned to the south of the island , climbed the mountain range there and explored the south of the island with the other assistant Schmidt AD Brylkin, in particular the coastal regions up to the capes Krilon and Aniwa . In September 1862 he returned to the Amur and then traveled back with his boss to St. Petersburg with extensive geological , botanical and ethnographic collections.

In January 1867, Glehn was appointed the youngest conservator of the Imperial St. Petersburg Botanical Garden . Glehn's travelogues were published in Russian and German in 1868. Glehn described the geography , hydrography and geology of the places visited on the island of Sakhalin. His botanical collections were edited by F. Schmidt. In 1870 he became chief curator. He worked on the collections of the zoologist Ivan Semjonowitsch Polyakow (1866), the Baron G. Maydell (1867) and the geologist Alexander Lavrentewitsch Tschekanowski (1869–1875).

Plants named after Peter von Glehn

Umbelliferae type Glehnia F. Schmidt with Glehnia littoralis F. Schmidt ex Miq. as the only representative that grows on the sandy coasts of the northern Pacific Ocean ( East Asia and North America ).
Aster glehnii F. Schmidt
Cardiocrinum glehnii (F. Schmidt) H. Hara and Lilium glehnii F. Schmidt
Eupatorium glehnii F. Schmidt & Trautv.
Lonicera glehnii F. Schmidt
Picea glehnii (F. Schmidt) mast.

Works

Flora around Dorpat . Arch. Naturk. Liv-, Est- u. Kurlands, 2nd Ser., 1860, Vol. 2, pp. 489-574.
Work of the Siberian Expedition of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. Physical department (together with FB Schmidt). Volume 1, Historical Reports, St. Petersburg 1868 (Russian).
List of the plants collected in Vitim Olekma Land by Messrs JS Polyakov and Baron G. Maydell . Works of the St. Petersburg Botanical Garden (1876) Volume 4, Issue 1, pp. 1–96.

literature

Anna-Kristiina Einama: Nikolai von Glehn loovisikuna (Estonian, accessed January 15, 2016).

Web links

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Peter von Glehn. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

↑ Harvard University: Glehn, Peter von (accessed January 18, 2016).
^ Author entry and list of the described plant names for Peter von Glehn at the IPNI
^ Neil L. Jennings: Coastal Beauty: Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs of Coastal British Columbia and Vancouver Island . Rocky Mountain Books Ltd 2011.
^ Christophe Wiart: Medicinal Plants of China, Korea, and Japan: Bioresources for Tomorrow's Drugs and Cosmetics . CRC Press 2012, p. 368.
↑ Eric Hultén : Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants . Stanford University Press 1968.
↑ Mustila Arboretum: Picea glehnii - Sakhalin or Glehn spruce (accessed January 18, 2016)

personal data
SURNAME	Glehn, Peter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Glehn, Peter Petrowitsch von (full name); Глен, Пётр Петро́вич фон (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Baltic German botanist, explorer, geographer and hydrograph
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jälgimäe, Saku (Estonia)
DATE OF DEATH	April 16, 1876
Place of death	St. Petersburg

[1] Harvard University: Glehn, Peter von (accessed January 18, 2016).

[IPNI-2] Author entry and list of the described plant names for Peter von Glehn at the IPNI

[3] Neil L. Jennings: Coastal Beauty: Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs of Coastal British Columbia and Vancouver Island . Rocky Mountain Books Ltd 2011.

[4] Christophe Wiart: Medicinal Plants of China, Korea, and Japan: Bioresources for Tomorrow's Drugs and Cosmetics . CRC Press 2012, p. 368.

[5] Eric Hultén : Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants . Stanford University Press 1968.

[6] Mustila Arboretum: Picea glehnii - Sakhalin or Glehn spruce (accessed January 18, 2016)