Max Ernst Wichura
Max Ernst Wichura (27 January 1817 in
botanist
.
A lawyer by vocation, he studied
Breslau and Bonn. In 1859 he was appointed as a government councillor (Regierungsrath) in Breslau, a position he maintained until his death in 1866.[1]
He studied botany as a gymnasium student in Breslau, where one of his instructors was
Lapland (1856). Afterwards, he performed cryptogamic investigations on trips to the Alps and Carpathians. In 1859, he participated as a botanist on a Prussian expedition to Eastern Asia, where he visited Singapore, Manila and various coastal areas of China and Japan.[1]
As a botanist, he was an expert on the
Rosa wichuraiana is named after him,[3] as is the subgenus Wichuraea, circumscribed by Max Joseph Roemer in 1847.[4]
Selected works
- Aus vier Welttheilen : eine Reise-Tagebuch in Briefen, 1868.
- Die Bastardbefruchtung im Pflanzenreich : erlaütert an den Bastarden der Weiden, 1885.[5]
References
- ^ a b ADB:Wichura, Max @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- ^ Google Books Gregor Mendel's Experiments on Plant Hybrids: A Guided Study by Gregor Mendel
- ^ JSTOR Global Plants biography
- ^ BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ^ WorldCat Identities (publications)
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Wich.
External links
- Mendel, Mendelism and Genetics Robert C. Olby, Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.
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