Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser

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Portrait of Besser. Oil on canvas, 70×583 (1830s).

Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser (7 July 1784 – 11 October 1842), known in Russia as Vilibald Gotlibovich Besser (

Austrian-born botanist active in former eastern territories of Poland occupied by the Russian Empire, who worked most of his life within today’s territory of western Ukraine
.

Born in

University of Krakow in 1807, and continued to pursue his interest in botany under the direction of Schivereck's successor as chair of botany in Krakow, Josef August Schultes
.

Von Besser briefly occupied a position at the local hospital before accepting an ofer from Tadeusz Czacki to take up a position teaching at a school in Volhynia in 1808, under condition of becoming a Russian subject and teaching in Polish. The following year he relocated to Kremenets, where he became professor of botany and zoology at the Kremenets gymnasium as well as the director of the botanical garden.

In 1821 he went to Vilnius to confirm his degree of Doctor in Medicine, and the following year von Besser was elected member of the German Academy Leopoldina.

entomological
studies for the remainder of his life.

Besser was a specialist involving botanical species of what was then the western part of the

Artemisia
.

The genus Bessera was named after him by Julius Hermann Schultes (1804-1840). The species Aconitum besserianum is also named after him.

Selected writings

  • Primitiae florae Galiciae Austriacae utriusque, (1809)
  • Enumeratio Plantarum Hucusque in Volhynia, Podloa, Gub. Kiovensis etc. (1822)
  • Ueber die Flora des Baikals, (1834)

Standard author abbreviation

The standard author abbreviation Besser is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

Besser published more than 650 plant species. See: Category:Taxa named by Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser and International Plant Name Index[3]

References

  1. ^ "List of Members". www.leopoldina.org. Archived from the original on 2018-08-07.
  2. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Besser.
  3. ^ "International Plant Name Index". Retrieved 14 April 2021.
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