Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel | |
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Utrecht, Netherlands | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany |
Author abbrev. (botany) | Miq. |
Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (24 October 1811 – 23 January 1871) was a Dutch
Early life
Miquel was born in Neuenhaus and studied medicine at the University of Groningen, where, in 1833, he received his doctorate. After starting work as a doctor at the Buitengasthuis Hospital in Amsterdam, in 1835, he taught medicine at the clinical school in Rotterdam. In 1838 he became correspondent of the Royal Institute, which later became the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1846 he became member.[1] He was professor of botany at the University of Amsterdam (1846–1859) and Utrecht University (1859–1871). He directed the Rijksherbarium (National Herbarium) at Leiden from 1862. In 1866, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Research
Miquel did research on the
Legacy
Miquel died in
He is honoured in the naming of two forms of plant taxa;[2] In 1838, botanist
Key publications
- Genera Cactearum, Rotterdam, 1839
- Monographia Cycadearum, Utrecht, 1842
- Systema Piperacearum, Rotterdam, 1843-1844
- Illustrationes Piperacearum, Bonn, 1847
- Cycadeae quaedam Americanae, partim novae. Amsterdam, 1851.
- Flora Indiae batavae, Amsterdam, 1855-1859
- Leerboek der Artensij-Gewassen, Utrecht, 1859
- De Palmis Archipelagi Indici observationes novae. Amsterdam, 1868.
- Miquel, Friedrich Anton Wilhelm (1865–1869). Annales Musei botanici lugduno-batavi. iii vols. Amsterdam: Rijksherbarium.
References
- ^ "F.A.W. Miquel (1811 - 1871)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
- ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ de Candole (1873). Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive Enumeratio contracta ordinum generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta. pp. 13–15.
- ^ "Miqueliopuntia Frič ex F.Ritter | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Miq.