Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen
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Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (3 December 1760, Giessen – 30 November 1806, Darmstadt) was a German naturalist and forester. He took part in the production of Teutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen by Johann Conrad Susemihl.[1]
He received his education in Giessen, and in 1796 started work as an assessor at the forestry office in Darmstadt. In 1800 he attained the title of Kammerrat, followed by a role as counselor at the Oberforsthaus Collegium in 1804.[2][3]
As a botanist, he was the taxonomic author of Alliaceae and Asclepiadaceae as well as the circumscriber of numerous plant genera and species.[4]
Works[edit]
- Naturgeschichte der europäischen Schmetterlinge (Natural history of European Lepidoptera) (1788–94).
- Versuch einer Erklärung der zoologischen Terminologie (An explanation of the zoological terminology) (1790).
- Versuch einer forstbotanischen Beschreibung der in Hessen-Darmstädter Landen im Freien wachsenden Holzarten (Description of the woody plants growing in Hesse-Darmstadt) (1790).
- Tentamen dispositionis plantarum Germaniae seminiferarum secundum new fact methodum A staminum situ proportione, (1792).
- Borkhausen, Moritz Balthasar (1797). Botanisches Wörterbuch oder Versuch einer Erklärung der vornehmsten Begriffe und Kunstwörter in der Botanik, 2 Volumes. Giessen: Georg Friedrich Heyer. Retrieved 3 February 2015. (Botanical dictionary)
- Theoretisch-praktisches Handbuch der Forstbotanik und Forsttechnologie (Manual of forest technology) (1800–1803).
- Deutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands (Natural history of German birds) (1810).[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Teutsche Ornithologie, oder, Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands: in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen, Google books
- ^ Richard Heß (1876), "Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 3, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 160–163
- ^ a b Borkhausen | eLexikon : Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1888; Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig und Wien, 4th edition, 1885–1892; vol. 3, p. 221 (PDF) (in German)
- ^ List of plants described and co-described by Borkhausen, IPNI
- ^ IPNI. Borkh.
Bibliography[edit]
- Robert Zander; Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (Hrsg.): Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. 13.Auflage. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.
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