Richard Anthony Salisbury

Richard Anthony Salisbury , actually Richard Markham , (born May 2, 1761 in Leeds , † March 23, 1829 in London ) was a British botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Salisb. "

Live and act

Richard Markham got his botany studies financed by a relative, Miss Anna Salisbury, on condition that her name be taken over. In a similar way, he then tried to combine his inheritance with the adoption of his name, but this was rejected by both Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle and John Edward Gray , and so William John Burchell finally got it without conditions.

Salisbury was a radical opponent of Linnaeus ' taxonomy , which made much of his work insignificant. Nevertheless, parts of his work are relevant to this day, especially descriptions.

Salisbury was considered a difficult character. By the turn of the century he was extremely in debt, which led to the breakup of his marriage to Caroline Staniforth. After plagiarizing the work of another botanist, his scientific credibility was lost.

He was one of the seven founding members of the London Horticultural Society .

Honors

The plant genus Salisburia Sm. From the Ginkgoaceae family and Salisburyodendron A.V. Bobrov & Melikyan from the Araucariaceae family is named after him .

Works

Icones stirpium rariorum descriptionibus illustrata , 1791
Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium , 1796
Dissertatio botanica de Erica , 1800
The Paradisus londinensis , 1805 to 1808
Genera of Plants , 1866

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Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names. Edited by Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 15th edition, corrected reprint of the 14th edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8001-5072-7 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b 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 .

Web links

Author entry and list of described plant names for Richard Anthony Salisbury at the IPNI

personal data
SURNAME	Salisbury, Richard Anthony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Markham, Richard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 2, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leeds
DATE OF DEATH	March 23, 1829
Place of death	London

[Burkhardt_2018-1] 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 .