August Heintze

August Heintze
Born	26 September 1881 Skurup, Sweden
Died	6 May 1941 (aged 59) Stockholm
Nationality	Swedish
Fields	Botany
Alma mater	Lund University
Author abbrev. (botany)	Heintze

(Sven) August Heintze (1881 – 1941) (sometimes spelled Heinze)^[1] was a Swedish botanist.^[2][3]

Life

Heintze was born on September 26, 1881 to Fredrik and Kerstin (née Svensson) Heintze in Skurup, Skane. He had a younger sister, Anna Maria (b. 1889).^[4] He enrolled as a student at Lund University in 1901. He graduated in 1906, and earned his doctorate in 1913. His first position was as a teacher at Uddevalla kommunalgymnasium. Heintze died on May 6, 1941 in Stockholm, and is buried in the Skurups Norra Kyrkogårdin.^[5][6][3][7]

He is known for his work on the classification of cormophytes,^[8] particularly the Ranuculaceae family.^[9]

Selected publications

Publications include:^[10]

• Heintze, August (1927). Cormofyternas Fylogeni (Phylogenie der cormophyten) (in German). Lund: Håkan Ohlssons boktryckeri. Retrieved 10 January 2016. (Cormofyt. Fylog.)
• Heintze, August. (1932–1935) Handbuch der Verbreitungsökologie der Pflanzen. Stockholm, Selbstverlag
• Heintze, August. (1908) Vaxtgeografiska anteckningar fran ett par farder genom Skibottendalen i Tromso amt. Arkiv Bot. v 7 no 11
• Heintze, August. (1913) Vaxttopografiska undersokningar i Asele Lappmarks fjalltrakter. I–II Arkiv Bot. v 12 no 11; v 13 no 5
• Heintze, August. (1909) Vaxtgeografiska undersokningar i Rane socken af Norrbottens lan. Arkiv Bot. v 9 no 8

Legacy

Published names include:^[11]

• Burmanniales Heintze, Cormofyt. Fylog.: 159 1927.^[12]
  • Burmanniidae Heintze, Cormofyt. Fylog.: 10. 1927.
• Marattiophyta Heintze, Cormofyt. Fylog.: 22. 1927.
• Orchididae Heintze, Cormofyt. Fylog.: 10. 1927.
• Oxalidales Heintze, Cormofyt. Fylog.: 13, 126 1927.
• Paeoniales Heintze, Cormofyt. Fylog.: 12. 1927
• Psilotophyta Heintze, Cormofyt. Fylog.: 22. 1927.
• Ranunculaceae subfam. Thalictroideae Heintze, Cormofyt. Fylog.: 103 1927.^[13]
  • Trolliinae Heintze, Cormfyt. Fylog.: 103. 1927

References

1. Kubitzki & Bayer 2003, p. 376.
2. HUH 2015.
3. Erdtman 1945.
4. Geni 2015.
5. Gravar 2016.
6. Wieselgren 1946, p. 388.
7. Krok, Aulin & Lindman 1925, p. 281.
8. Heintze 1927.
9. Kumazawa 1938.
10. Libris 2016, Heintze, August.
11. Reveal 2000.
12. Heintze 1927, p. 159.
13. Heintze 1927, p. 103.
14. "Author Query for 'Heintze'". International Plant Names Index.

Bibliography

• "Heintze, Sven August". Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries: Index of Botanists. 2015.
• Erdtman, Gunnar (1945). "August Heintze 26.9 1881-6.5 1941. Några minnesord" [A remembrance]. Svensk Bot. Tidskr. (in Swedish) 39 (4): 441–444.
• "Sven August Heintze". Geni. 2 March 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
• "Sven August Heintze". Gravar.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 13 January 2016.
• Wieselgren, Oscar Harald, ed. (1946). Svenska män och kvinnor: biografisk uppslagsbok, Volume 3 (in Swedish). Stockholm: Bonnier.
• Krok, Thorgny Ossian Bolivar Napoleon; Aulin, Fredrik Rutger; Lindman, Carl Axel Magnus, eds. (1925). Bibliotheca botanica Suecana: ab antiquissimis temporibus ad finem anni MCMXVIII. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell.
• "LIBRIS". National Library of Sweden. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
• Kubitzki, Klaus; Bayer, Clemens, eds. (2003). The families and genera of vascular plants. Vol.5. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons: Malvales, Capparales and Non-betalain Caryophyllales. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-662-07255-4. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
• Kumazawa, Masao (1938). "Systematic and Phylogenetic Consideration of the Ranunculaceae and Berberidaceae". Shokubutsugaku Zasshi 52 (613): 9–15. doi:10.15281/jplantres1887.52.9.
• Reveal, James L (20 July 2000). "Latest NEWS on Vascular Plant Family Nomenclature". Plant systematics. University of Maryland: Norton-Brown Herbarium. Retrieved 14 January 2016.