Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser

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Better, oil painting, National Museum of Ukraine

Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser , Russian Вилибальд Готлибович Бессер , (* July 7, 1784 in Innsbruck , † October 11, 1842 in Kremenez ) was an Austrian botanist and entomologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Besser ".

Life

Besser lost his parents at the age of 13 and then grew up with a relative of his mother, the botany professor in Lemberg Swibert Burkhard Schivereck (died 1806), who also left him his herbarium. Better studied medicine in Lemberg and Cracow (where K. Kluk was his botany professor) with the degree in 1807. After that he was briefly a clinician in Cracow, but went as early as 1808 as a teacher of zoology and botany at a school in Wolhynia . In 1808 his Flora of Galicia appeared (with a description of around 360 plant species from the Krakow area). From 1809 he was a teacher and director of the Botanical Garden in Kremenets . In 1822 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1834 he became professor of botany at the University in Kiev , but this was due to overwork three years later in 1837 again and went back to Kremenets.

He was a leading expert on the flora of the western part of Russia and Ukraine in his day. He was also an expert on the genus Artemisia .

In Kiev, Antoni Lukianowicz Andrzejowski was his assistant.

Honors

Julius Hermann Schultes named the genus of Mexican asparagus Bessera after him.

Fonts

  • Primitiae florae Galiciae Austriacae utriusque. 1808
  • Enumeratio Plantarum Hucusque in Volhynia, Podloa, Gub. Kiovensis etc. 1822
  • About the flora of the Baikal. 1834

Web links

Commons : Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In addition, he could not speak Russian and therefore had to teach Latin there. In Kremenez he taught in Polish.
  2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Better, Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бессер, Вилибальд Готлибович (Russian); Better, Willibald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian botanist and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1842
Place of death Kremenets , Galicia