William Trelease

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William Trelease (born February 22, 1857 in Mount Vernon , New York , † January 1, 1945 in Urbana , Illinois ) was an American botanist and entomologist . He was the director of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Trel. "

Live and act

William Trelease's parents, Samuel Ritter and Mary Elizabeth Trelease, were of Dutch and British ancestry. In the fall of 1877 he began his studies at Cornell University , which he graduated with a BS in the spring of 1880 . In the fall of 1880 Trelease went to Harvard University . In 1881 he was appointed "instructor of botany" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison . In 1882 he married Julia M. Johnson, with whom he had four sons and a daughter. In 1883 Trelease became head of the Botanical Department in Madison and was given a professorship. Shortly thereafter, he got the job as "Engelmann Professor of Botany" at Washington University in St. Louis . After the then director of the Missouri Botanical Garden , Henry Shaw , passed away, Trelease was appointed as his successor in 1889. In 1899 he took part in the two-month Alaska expedition led by Edward Henry Harriman . In 1913 he became head of the Department of Botany at the University of Illinois . In 1926 Trelease retired.

Honors

The mushroom genera Treleasia and Treleasiella are named after him, as well as the plant genus Neotreleasia from the Commelina family (Commelinaceae). Today, however , this genus Neotreleasia has been dissolved and its representatives are set in the genus of the three-masted flowers ( Tradescantia ). A mountain near Georgetown, Colorado was named Mount Trelease in his honor .

In 1892 Trelease was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1902 to the National Academy of Sciences, and 1903 to the American Philosophical Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Agaves of Lower California. In: Annual report Missouri Botanical Garden. Volume 22, 1911 (published February 14, 1912), pp. 37-65 (online) .
  • Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening . Urbana, Illinois 1917 (2nd edition. 1921, 3rd edition. 1926).
  • Winter botany . Urbana, Illinois 1918.
  • The American Oaks . In: Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci. tape 20 , 1924.
  • With Truman George Yuncker: The Piperaceae of Northern South America ... 1950

swell

  • Robert Zander : Concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold. 13th edition. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
  • Louis Otto Kunkel: William Trelease 1857-1945 . National Academy of Sciences, 1961 ( PDF - with list of publications).
  • Short biography at pbs.org (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous 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 .
  2. ↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 2067. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7

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personal data
SURNAME Trelease, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American botanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Mount Vernon , New York
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1945
Place of death Urbana , Illinois