Veit Brecher Wittrock
Veit Brecher Wittrock (5 May 1839 at district of Dalsland – 1 September 1914 in Stockholm) was a Swedish botanist known for his work in the field of phycology and for his research of the genus Viola.[1]
Biography
From 1857 to 1865 he studied at the University of Uppsala, then spent the next thirteen years as a gymnasium teacher in Uppsala. In 1878 he became an associate professor at the University of Uppsala. From 1879 to 1904 he served as a professor and curator of the botanical collections at the Naturhistoriska riksmuseet in Stockholm. In Stockholm, he was also a professor and director of the Bergianska trädgården (1879–1914).[2]
Botanical eponymy
- Wittrockia: Bromeliad genus circumscribed by Carl Axel Magnus Lindman in 1891.
- Wittrockiella: Algae genus circumscribed by Nordal Wille in 1909.[2]
Selected works
- Försök till en monographi öfver algslägtet Monostroma, 1866.
- Algologiska studier. I och II, 1867.
- Dispositio oedogoniacearum suecicarum, 1870.
- Prodromus monographiae oedogoniearum, 1874.
- "On the development and systematic arrangement of the Pithophoraceæ, a new order of algae", 1877.
- Skandinaviens gymnospermer, 1887.
- Viola studier (1895–1897; 2 volumes).
- Botanisk-historiska fragment, 1906.
- (As editor): Acta horti Bergiani. Meddelanden från Kungl. Svenska vetenskaps-akademiens Trädgård Bergielund.[3][4]
References
- ^ Wittrock, Veit Brecher (1839-1914) JSTOR Global Plants
- ^ a b BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ^ OCLC Classify published works
- ^ HathiTrust Digital Library published works
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Wittr.
