Carl Curt Hosseus (1878–1950) was a German
botanist born in
Stromberg im Thale,
Rhineland
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. He gained his
doctorate
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in 1903 from
Leipzig University
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, and sailed
Genoa
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in 1904 for
Thailand
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where he found ''
Viola hossei'', which was named for him. He was the first botanist to collect in northern Thailand. A complete set of his Thai collections is housed in the
Botanische Staatssammlung,
Munich
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. He also visited
Ceylon,
Singapore
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and the
Malay Peninsula, returning to Europe in 1906; he made botanical collections in all these countries, which totalled 512 specimens.
[Hosseus, C. C. (1911). ''Through King Chilalongkorn's Kingdom 1904–1906: The Botanical Expedition in Northern Thailand''. White Lotus Co Ltd., 2001. .]
Hosseus emigrated to
Argentina
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and undertook botanical explorations of
Patagonia
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from 1913 to 1915, which resulted in numerous publications in botanical journals. He was appointed professor of botany at
Cordoba University
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, Argentina, in 1916, and also served as director of the botanical museum there until his retirement in 1946. Hosseus remained in
Cordoba until his death in 1950. His herbarium specimens are housed at the Cordoba University.
[Hosseus, C. C. (1926). ''Revista Centro Farm. Cordoba'' 2 (5): 24, 1926.]
''
Hosseusiella'', a
genus
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of
lichen-forming
fungi
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in the family
Teloschistaceae
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, was named in his honour in 2018 by Ukrainian lichenologist
Sergey Kondratyuk and colleagues.
Selective works
*''Die aus Siam bekannten Acanthaceen'' (1907)
*''Beitrage Zur Flora Siams'' (1910)
*''Die botanischen Ergebniss miner Expedition nach Siam'' (1911)
*''Revista Centro Farm. Cordoba'' 2 (5): 24, 1926.
*''Notas sobre Cactaceae Argentinas'' I, Cordoba (1939)
References
Hosseusa
JSTOR Global Plants
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1878 births
1950 deaths
Botanists with author abbreviations
20th-century German botanists
Leipzig University alumni