Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen
Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (3 December 1760, Giessen – 30 November 1806, Darmstadt) was a German naturalist and forester. He took part in the production of "Teutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen" by Johann Conrad Susemihl.[1]
He received his education in Giessen, and in 1796 started work as an assessor at the forestry office in Darmstadt. In 1800 he attained the title of Kammerrat, followed by a role as counselr at the Oberforsthaus Collegium in 1804.[2][3]
As a botanist, he was the taxonomic author of Alliaceae and Asclepiadaceae as well as the circumscriber of numerous plant genera and species.[4]
Works
- Naturgeschichte der europäischen Schmetterlinge (Natural history of European Lepidoptera) (1788–94).
- Versuch einer Erklärung der zoologischen Terminologie (An explanation of the zoological terminology) (1790).
- Versuch einer forstbotanischen Beschreibung der in Hessen - Darmstädter Landen im Freien wachsenden Holzarten (Description of the woody plants growing in Hesse-Darmstadt) (1790).
- Tentamen dispositionis plantarum Germaniae seminiferarum secundum new fact methodum A staminum situ proportione, (1792).
- Borkhausen, Moritz Balthasar (1797). Botanisches Wörterbuch oder Versuch einer Erklärung der vornehmsten Begriffe und Kunstwörter in der Botanik, 2 Volumes. Giessen: Georg Friedrich Heyer. Retrieved 3 February 2015. (Botanical dictionary)
- Theoretisch - praktisches Handbuch der Forstbotanik und Forsttechnologie (Manual of forest technology) (1800-1803).
- Deutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands (Natural history of German birds) (1810).[3]
References
- ↑ Google Books Teutsche Ornithologie, oder, Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands: in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen
- ↑ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (translated biography)
- 1 2 Borkhausen | eLexikon : Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1888; Autorenkollektiv, Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig und Wien, Vierte Auflage, 1885-1892;3. Band, Seite 221.
- ↑ IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Borkhausen
- ↑ "Author Query for 'Borkh.'". International Plant Names Index.
Bibliography
- Robert Zander; Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (Hrsg.): Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. 13.Auflage. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.
- Richard Heß: Borkhausen, Moritz Balthasar. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, S. 160–163.
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