Ignatz Urban
Ignatz Urban | |
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University of Berlin | |
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Author abbrev. (botany) | Urb. |
Ignatz Urban (7 January 1848 – 7 January 1931) was a German
Early life and education
Urban was born in
Berlin Botanical Garden
In 1878 Eichler was appointed head of Botany at the University of Berlin. Eichler appointed Urban as assistant head of the Berlin Botanical Garden, and in 1883 he was promoted to the position of curator. As curator of the Garden, Urban supervised their transfer from their original site to their present site in Berlin-Dahlem.[1]
Flora of Brazil
Urban worked as Eichler's assistant in the production of the Flora Brasiliensis,[1] which had been initiated by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius and Stephan Endlicher in 1840.[2] Urban later took over as editor after Eichler's death, and saw the work through to its completion in 1906.[3]
Caribbean botany and Symbolae Antillanae
In 1884 Urban began working with
Krug hired plant collector
In 1886 Urban published his first paper primarily dedicated to Caribbean plants. In 1898 he began the publication of Symbolae Antillanae seu fundamenta Florae Indiae Occidentalis. In 1913 he retired, having produced seven volumes of Symbolae Antillanae. He then began work on Sertum Antillanum which eventually became a 30-part series, completed in 1930. Volume eight of Symbolae Antillanae was completed in 1921, and volume nine in 1928.[1]
Urban continued working until a few weeks before his death in 1931, on the morning of his eighty-third birthday.[1]
Honours
He has been honoured in the naming of several plant taxa including;[5]
- Urbanodendron by Carl Christian Mez in 1889, (in the family Lauraceae)
- Ignurbia by Bertil Nordenstam in 2006, (in the family Asteraceae)
References
- ^ a b c d e f Howard, Richard A. (1996). "Ignatz Urban and the "Symbolae Antillanae"". Flora of the Greater Antilles Newsletter. 10.
- ^ "Endlicher, Stephan L. (1804 - 1849)". Collectors & Illustrators. Australian National Herbarium. 13 November 2007. Retrieved 2008-10-20.
- JSTOR 20023198.
- ^ Hiepko, Paul (1996). "Collections in the Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (B) of particular interest for the Flora of the Greater Antilles". Flora of the Greater Antilles Newsletter. 10.
- ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Urb.