Maria Gugelberg von Moos
Maria Gugelberg von Moos (1836–1918) was a renowned Swiss botanist and floral artist. Growing up amidst the natural beauty surrounding Salenegg Castle, she developed an early interest in natural history, and later botany. She studied botany extensively in middle age, systematically collecting and studying plants.[1]
Her most important work was her study of mosses and liverworts; she discovered forty-seven new species in the Graubünden region and other cantons of Switzerland. She also worked with botanist Christian Georg Brügger, painting detailed illustrations of his hybrids. Some of her illustrations, including the Primrose, Sempervivum and Saxifraga, were regarded as important at the time. Gugelberg von Moos was also the first woman named a corresponding member of the Naturforschende Gesellschaft Graubündens, for her contributions to botany.[1]
She died at Salenegg Castle on October 29, 1918 at age eighty-two.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Creese, Mary R. S. (2004). Ladies in the Laboratory 2. Oxford, UK: Scarecrow Press. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-8108-4979-2. LCCN 2003020846.
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