Alexander von Bunge

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Alexander von Bunge
Russian
EducationUniversity of Dorpat
ChildrenGustav von Bunge, Alexander von Bunge
Parents
  • Andreas Theodor von Bunge (father)
  • Elisabeth von Bunge, née Fuhrmann (mother)
RelativesFriedrich Georg von Bunge (brother)
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsUniversity of Dorpat, Kazan University
Thesis De relatione methodi plantarum naturalis in vires vegetabilium medicalis
Author abbrev. (botany)Bunge

Alexander Georg von Bunge (

botanist. He is best remembered for scientific expeditions into Asia and especially Siberia
.

Early life and education

Bunge was born under the name, Alexander Andreevič von Bunge on 6 October [

German minority in Tsarist Russia. His father, Andreas Theodor was a pharmacist who had emigrated from East Prussia to Russia with his grandfather in the 18th century and his mother, Elisabeth von Bunge, née Fuhrmann. They moved to Dorpat in 1815 after his father's death in 1814 and attended highschool from 1818 to 1821.[1] He was educated at Dorpat and where he passed through the gymnasium during the period of 1821–1825.[2] Then, he studied medicine and obtained his Doctorate of Medicine from University of Tartu in 1825.[3] He also studied botany there under Carl Friedrich von Ledebour and completed his thesis entitled De relatione methodi plantarum naturalis in vires vegetabilium medicalis [4]

Expedition to Siberia

At early January, he worked as Head of Metallurgy in the Kolyvan-Voskresensker factory under P. K. Frolov and as district physician in Barnaul (Tomsk Governorate) which located in Southern Siberia.[1] The same year he went with Ledebour and Carl Anton von Meyer on an important scientific expedition to the Kazakh Steppe and Altai Mountains. They spent five weeks across Russia to Barnaul during the summer and collected 1,600 plant specimens, which formed the basis of the Flora Altaica. This book was published in four volumes between 1829 and 1833.[4][5]

After the expedition, Bunge lived in

Tsar Nicholas. He was accompanied by Colonel Ladijenski as pristav (escort) and Dr. P. Kirilov as physician. Apart from him there were other researchers, including Georg Albert von Fuss as astronomer and metereologist, and Kovanko as mineralogist. All of them were part of the eleventh ecclesiastical mission, which happened regularly, and were also to pick up the emissary for the tenth ecclesiastical mission. They went to Peking from the border town Kjachta at the end of O.S August 1830 via Urga in September 1830, and arrived in Peking on 17 November 1830 after crossing the Gobi Desert, and spent the winter in Peking. Bunge continued his research in March 1831 by going to the ruins known as Tsagan Balgasun located in Khalgan (Zhangjiakou). His research was finally stopped in May 1821 because he incurred the displeasure of the Chinese authorities when he stayed at Buddhist Monastery and did not get permission to go out of Peking [6]

They returned to Russia on 6 July 1831 with the emissary of the tenth ecclesiastical mission by following the western route that bypassed Kalgan and Urga.[6] They arrived in Russia in early September 1831 with their collection of 450 plant specimens. In addition to plants Bunge collected a few beetles, which were described by Franz Faldermann in his book Coleopterorum ab illustrissimo Bungio in China boreali, Mongolia, et Montibus Altaicis collectorum descriptio.[6]

After the expedition Bunge lived in

University of Halle as part of a herbarium exchange and duplicated what was saved in St. Petersburg.[1] One of the plants that he named is Viburnum fragrans Bunge (later renamed Viburnum farreri Stearn, after William T. Stearn) and also appeared in Enumeratio plantarum quas in China boreali collegit.[4]

In April 1832 Bunge returned to his duties as physician in Barnaul, but not long afterwards he made another expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences to go to

Chuya, located in the eastern Altai mountains.[1] He went to St. Petersburg in 1833 and was nominated as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and he also became Professor of Botany in Kazan University.[3] Bunge spent three years at this university, and during this period, he made an expedition to study plants from the Volga steppe before moving back to Dorpat in 1836 to become professor of botany in the University of Dorpat and director of the botanical garden.,[4] replacing Ledebour, who had retired.[7]

During his professorship Bunge made a scientific expedition to

University of Halle, through correspondence, via articles published in the journal "Linnaea" and through the exchange of herbarium specimens.[1] Bunge retired as professor in 1867 and was succeeded by Heinrich Moritz Willkomm.[1] He remained in Dorpat until 1881, spending his later years there investigating Estonian flora.[2]

Personal life

He was the father of

zoologist.[8] His older brother, Friedrich Georg von Bunge (1802–1897), was a legal historian.[1] Bunge died on 18 July [O.S. 6 July] 1890 in Dorpat.[9]

Commemoration

Taxa
Places

A crater on Mars and a place in New Siberian Island called Bungeland was named after him.[4]

Bibliography

  • Flora Altaica; scripsit Carolus Fridericus a Ledebour, adiutoribus Car. Ant. Meyer et Al. a Bunge. Tomus I (1829)[15]
  • Flora Altaica; scripsit Carolus Fridericus a Ledebour, adiutoribus Car. Ant. Meyer et Al. a Bunge. Tomus II (1830)[16]
  • Flora Altaica; scripsit Carolus Fridericus a Ledebour, adiutoribus Car. Ant. Meyer et Al. a Bunge. Tomus III (1831)[17]
  • Flora Altaica; scripsit Carolus Fridericus a Ledebour, adiutoribus Car. Ant. Meyer et Al. a Bunge. Tomus IV (1832)[18]
  • Enumeratio plantarum quas in China boreali collegit Dr. Al. Bunge. Anno 1831. (1832)[19]
  • Plantarum mongolica-chinensium decas fine. (1835)
  • Verzeichniss der im Jahre 1832 im östlichen Theile des Altai-Gebirges gesammelten Pflanzen. Ein Supplement zur Flora Altaica written with Ledebour (1836) [20]
  • Anleitung zum Studium der Botanik, oder Grundriss Dieser Wissenschaft  Enthaltend die Organographie, Physiologie, Methodologie, die Pflanzen, Geographie, eine Ubersich der fossilen der pharmaceustischen Botanik und der Geschichte der Botanik written with Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1838) [21]
  • Alexandri Lehmann reliquiae botanicae; sive, Enumeratio plantarum in itinere per deserta Asiae Mediae ab A. Lehmann annis 1839–1842 collectarum. Scripsit Al. Bunge. (1847)[22]
  • Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Flor Russlands und der Steppen Central-Asiens, (1851) – Contribution to the knowledge of flora native to Russia and the steppes of Central Asia.[23]
  • Tentamen generis Tamaricum species accuratius definiendi. (1852)[24]
  • Plantas Abichianas in itineribus per Caucasum regionesque Transcaucasicas collectas, enumeravit A. Bunge. (1858).[25]
  • Generis Astragali species gerontogeae. (1868–1869).[4]
  • Die Gattung Acantholimon Boiss. (1872).[26]
  • Labiatae persicae, (1873).[27]
The standard author abbreviation Bunge is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[28]

See also

References

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  9. ^ Journal: Botany. Vol. 26. Linnean Society of London. 1893. p. 21.
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  11. ^ "Lacebark Pine". naturewalk.yale.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
  12. ^ Clerodendrum bungei, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2005-03-19, retrieved 2022-03-15
  13. ^ Olsen and, Richard T.; Kirkbride, Jr, Joseph H. "Manchurian Catalpa Catalpa bungei" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 March 2014. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
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  16. ^ Ledebour, Carl Friedrich “von” (1830). Flora Altaica. Scripsit D. Carolus Fridericus A Ledebour ... Adiutoribus D. Car. Ant. Meyer Et D. Al. A Bunge (in Latin). Vol. II. Reimer.
  17. ^ Ledebour, Karl Friedrich von; Bunge, Alexander von; Meyer, Carl Anton. Flora Altaica. Vol. 3. Berolini: G. Reimeri.
  18. ^ Ledebour, Carl Friedrich von; Bunge, Alexander von; Meyer, Carl Anton (1833). Flora altaica: scripsit D. Carolus Fridericus a Ledebour ... (in Latin). Vol. IV. typis et impensis G. Reimeri.
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  22. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.40758
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  23. ^ Bunge, Alexander von (1851). Beitrag zur kenntniss der flor Russlands und der steppen Central?Asiens /von Al. Bunge. Missouri Botanical Garden. St. Petersburg : Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften.
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  27. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.41371.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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  28. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Bunge.

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