Albert Grunow (3 November 1826,
Berlin
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– 17 March 1914,
Berndorf, Lower Austria
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* Berndorf-Stadt
* St. Veit
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) was a German-Austrian
chemist
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and
phycologist. He specialized in the study of
diatoms
A diatom (New Latin, Neo-Latin ''diatoma''), "a cutting through, a severance", from el, διάτομος, diátomos, "cut in half, divided equally" from el, διατέμνω, diatémno, "to cut in twain". is any member of a large group com ...
.
From 1851 he worked as a chemist in a metal works factory in Berndorf. In 1857-59 he participated in the Austrian "
Novara Expedition", and was tasked with analysis of its algal collections. Also, he served as a collector, preparator and determiner of specimens towards the development of
Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst
Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst (22 March 1806 – 24 April 24) was a German botanist and mycologist.
Biography
Rabenhorst was born in Treuenbrietzen. He studied in Berlin and Belzig from 1822 to 1830, worked as a pharmacist in Luckau until 1840, and ...
's diatom exsiccatae.
In 1901 he donated his collection of extant and fossil diatoms to the
Natural History Museum of Vienna
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. He was a corresponding member of the ''Geologischen Reichsanstalt''.
Selected works
* ''Diatomaceen, Familie Navuculaceen'', 1860 -
Diatomaceae, family
Naviculaceae.
* ''Ueber neue oder ungenügend gekannte Algen'', 1860 - On new or largely unknown algae.
* ''Die Österreichischen Diatomaceen'', etc. 1862 - Diatomaceae of Austria.
* ''Reise seiner Majestät Fregatte Novara um die Erde'' : Botanischer Theil. I Band, Algen, 1867 - Journey of the frigate Novara and its circumnavigation of the Earth.
* "New diatoms from
Honduras"; published in English (1877).
* ''Beiträge zur Kenntniss der fossilen Diatomeen Österreich-Ungarns'', 1882 - Contribution to the understanding of fossil diatoms of Austria-Hungary.
* ''Die Diatomeen von Franz Josefs-Land'', 1884 - Diatoms from
Franz Josef Land
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.
* "Additamenta ad cognitionem Sargassorum", 1913.
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1826 births
1914 deaths
19th-century Austrian botanists
Phycologists
Scientists from Berlin