Wenceslas Bojer
Wenceslas Bojer (also Václav or Wenzel Bojer ; born September 23, 1795 in Řesanice , Bohemia , † June 4, 1856 in Port Louis , Mauritius ) was a Bohemian, k. k. Austrian naturalist and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Bojer ".
biography
Wenceslas Bojer was born in Bohemia to Simon Bojer and Barbara Staub. Like his father, he was a gardener at first. During his training with the botanist Kaspar Maria von Sternberg he caught the attention of Franz Wilhelm Sieber , who gave him a position at the Imperial Museum in Vienna. Between 1821 and 1823 Bojer carried out botanical studies in Mauritius together with Sieber and Carl Theodor Hilsenberg . In 1822 he was sent to Madagascar by the Mauritian Governor Robert Townsend Farquhar , where he accompanied Prince Rafaria and James Hastie, the envoy of King Radama I of Madagascar, on their expeditions. Bojer explored the west coast of Madagascar before arriving in Antananarivo .
From 1824 Bojer worked as an interpreter in Africa. He explored several coasts in Africa and was able to amass a large collection of plants and minerals. In 1829, along with Charles Telfair , Jacques Delisse (1773–1856) and Julien Desjardins, he was one of the founders of the Société royale des Arts et des Sciences de l'île Maurice , the first scientific association in Mauritius. In 1842 Bojer became curator at the Desjardins Museum and in 1848 director of the Jardin des Pamplemousses . In 1849 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .
Bojers last treatise Rapport sur le Taraudeur of cannes (1856) was about the sugarcane borer ( Diatraea saccharalis ), the two-thirds in the 1850s of the sugar cane harvest was destroyed in Mauritius and had suspended the governor then 50,000 francs for an effective remedy for the plague .
Wenceslas Bojer died of plegia in 1856 . His grave in the Western Cemetery in Port Louis is a listed building .
Dedication names
Several plant and animal taxas from Africa , Madagascar , the Seychelles and the Mascarene Islands are named after Bojer , including Bojers Skink ( Gongylomorphus bojerii ), the palm weaver ( Ploceus bojeri ), Dionycha bojerii , Ficus bojeri Baker , Uapaca bojeri Baill. , Streptocarpus thompsonii var. Bojeri , Euphorbia bojeri Hook. , Epilobium bojeri Hausskn. and Wahlenbergia bojeri A.DC.
In 1836 Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle named the Bojeria plant genus from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) in his honor . Today it is a synonym for Inula of the family Asteraceae ( Asteraceae ). In 1836, Constantine S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz named a genus of plants from the milkweed family ( Euphorbiaceae ) with the name Bojeria . However, this homonym is invalid under the rules of the ICBN as it was not published until 1838.
Fonts (selection)
- Hortus Mauritianus: ou énumération des plantes, exotiques et indigènes, qui croissent a l'Ile Maurice, disposées d'aprés la méthode naturelle , 1837.
- Espèces nouvelles de plantes à Madagascar et îles Comores , 1841.
- Planches relative au genre Gærtnera Lam. , 1847.
- Vahea madagascariensis et Cassia filipendula , 1847.
literature
- William Jackson Hooker: Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1856
- Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson: Report on the scientific achievements in the field of entomology. 1857
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Bojer, Wenzeslaus . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 27 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Heinrich Wilhelm Reichardt : Bojer, Wenzel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 86.
- Noël Régnard: Notice consacrée à Bojer dans le Dictionnaire de Biographie mauricienne Proceedings de la Société Royale des Arts et des Sciences, 1956.
- Bojer Wenceslaus. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 99.
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Wenceslas Bojer at the IPNI
- Hortus mauritianus Bojer's work Hortus mauritianus in the online edition. (French)
- Biography (English)
- Article about Bojer in L'Express ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ National Monuments of Mauritius, Volume 1, Port-Louis District, 1988, pp. 50–51
- ↑ a b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names. Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018.
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SURNAME | Bojer, Wenceslas |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bojer, Wenceslaus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bohemian-Mauritian botanist and naturalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1795 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Řesanice, Bohemia |
DATE OF DEATH | June 4, 1856 |
Place of death | Port Louis , Mauritius |