Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau

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Günther Ritter Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau

botanist
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Life

Ritter Beck-Mannagetta, son of a state prosecutor, studied at the University of Vienna, where he graduated as Dr. phil. in 1878.

After a period working as a volunteer at the Botanisches Hofkabinett, (later the

Natural History Museum), he became head of the Botanical Department there from 1885 to 1899. Together with Alexander Zahlbruckner as co-editor he published the exsiccata series Kryptogamae exsiccatae editae a Museo Palatino Vindobonensi from 1896 until 1898.[1] In 1894 he became assistant professor, and in 1895 associate professor at the University of Vienna
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From 1899 to 1921 he was professor of systematic botany at the German

Charles University in Prague and head of the Botanical Garden there.[2]

His main interests were plant geography and the flora of the Alps and the Balkans. Beck also revised the pitcher plant genus Nepenthes in his 1895 monograph, "Die Gattung Nepenthes".[3]

In 1933, botanist Harry Sm. published a genus of flowering plants from Siberia and China, belonging to the family Orobanchaceae, as Mannagettaea in his honour.[4]

Some publications

  • Flora von Niederösterreich (1890–1893)
  • Die Vegetationsverhältnisse der illyrischen Länder begreifend Südkroatien, die Quarnero-Inseln, Dalmatien, Bosnien und die Hercegovina, Montenegro, Nordalbanien, den Sandzak Novipazar und Serbien (1901)
  • Hilfsbuch für Pflanzensammler (1902)
  • Flora Bosne, Hercegovine i Novipazarskog Sandzaka (three volumes, 1903–1927)
  • Grundriß der Naturgeschichte des Pflanzenreiches, (1908)
  • He also contributed to
    Engler and Prantl's
    Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien: Orobanchaceae.
The standard author abbreviation Beck is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

Notes

a.^ Ritter is a title, best translated as knight, in the British sense of an hereditary knighthood, not a first or middle name.

References

  1. ^ "Kryptogamae exsiccatae editae a Museo Palatino Vindobonensi: IndExs ExsiccataID=193363905". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
  2. Wikidata Q56684621
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  3. ^ (in German) Beck, G. 1895. Die Gattung Nepenthes. Wiener Illustrirte Garten-Zeitung 20(3–6): 96–107, 141–150, 182–192, 217–229.
  4. ^ "Mannagettaea Harry Sm. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Beck.

External links

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