Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (3 December 1760,

Giessen Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univers ...

– 30 November 1806,

Darmstadt Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...

) was a German naturalist and

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. He took part in the production of ' by

Johann Conrad Susemihl Johann Conrad Susemihl (1767 Rainrod, Oberhessen – 1847), was a German copperplate engraver and artist noted for his images of natural history, landscapes and architecture. Susemihl is acclaimed for his survey of the birds of Germany, ''Teutsc ...

. He received his education in Giessen, and in 1796 started work as an assessor at the forestry office in

. In 1800, he attained the title of ''Kammerrat'', followed by a role as counselor at the Oberforsthaus Collegium in 1804.Borkhausen , eLexikon
: ''

Meyers Konversations-Lexikon ' or ' was a major encyclopedia in the German language that existed in various editions, and by several titles, from 1839 to 1984, when it merged with the '. Joseph Meyer (1796–1856), who had founded the publishing house in 1826, intended t ...

'', 1888; Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig und Wien, 4th edition , 1885–1892; vol. 3, p. 221 (PDF). As a botanist, he was the taxonomic author of

Alliaceae Allioideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, order Asparagales. It was formerly treated as a separate family, Alliaceae. The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, ''Allium''. ...

and Asclepiadaceae as well as the circumscriber of numerous plant genera and species.List of plants described and co-described by Borkhausen

IPNI The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus. It inclu ...

Works

*''Naturgeschichte der europäischen Schmetterlinge'' (Natural history of European

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

) (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 plant A woody plant is a plant that produces wood as its structural tissue and thus has a hard stem. In cold climates, woody plants further survive winter or dry season above ground, as opposite to herbaceous plants that die back to the ground until sp ...

s growing in

Hesse-Darmstadt The Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt (german: Landgrafschaft Hessen-Darmstadt) was a State of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by a younger branch of the House of Hesse. It was formed in 1567 following the division of the Landgraviate of Hesse betwee ...

) (1790). *''Tentamen dispositionis plantarum Germaniae seminiferarum secundum new fact methodum A staminum situ proportione'', (1792). * *''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).

References

Bibliography

*Robert Zander; Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (Hrsg.): ''Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen''. 13.Auflage. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, .

External links

Botanisches Wörterbuch, at BSB
1760 births 1807 deaths People from Giessen 18th-century German zoologists German foresters German lepidopterists 19th-century German zoologists 18th-century naturalists 19th-century naturalists German naturalists {{Entomologist-stub