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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 counselr 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

  • 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. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help) (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]
The standard author abbreviation Borkh. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

References

  1. ^ Google Books Teutsche Ornithologie, oder, Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands: in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen
  2. ^ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (translated biography)
  3. ^ a b Borkhausen | eLexikon : Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1888; Autorenkollektiv, Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig und Wien, Vierte Auflage, 1885-1892;3. Band, Seite 221.
  4. ^ IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Borkhausen
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Borkh.

Bibliography

  • Robert Zander; Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (Hrsg.): Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. 13.Auflage. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.
  • Richard Heß: Borkhausen, Moritz Balthasar. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, S. 160–163.


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