Constantin Georg Alexander Winkler (14 June 1848 in Medvedevo near

Velikiye Luki Velikiye Luki ( rus, Вели́кие Лу́ки, p=vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪjə ˈlukʲɪ; lit. ''great meanders''. Г. П. Смолицкая. "Топонимический словарь Центральной России". "Армада-П ...

– 3 February 1900 in Wesenberg) was a Russian

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

of Baltic-German heritage. From 1871 to 1874 he studied botany at the

University of Dorpat The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

, where from 1874 to 1879, he worked as an assistant to

Edmund Russow Edmund August Friedrich Russow (russian: Эдму́нд Фридрихович Ру́ссов, translit=Èdmúnd Fridrichovič Rússov; – ) was a Baltic German biologist. Academic career Son of a military engineer, Edmund Russow stud ...

at the

botanical garden A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, an ...

. In the meantime he taught classes in natural sciences at several schools. From 1879 to 1899 he was associated with the

Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden The main Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden, officially known as the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Komarov Botanical Institute's Botanical Garden of Peter the Great (russian: Ботанический сад Петра Великого Б ...

; as curator of its

herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...

(1879–97) and as head botanist (1897–99).Winkler, Konstantin Georg Alexander
BBLD - Baltisches biografisches Lexikon digital At Saint Petersburg he played a major role in reorganization of its herbaria and the greenhouse collections. In 1899 he relocated to the town of Wesenberg, where he died the following year. He is known for his work in the field of

plant systematics The history of plant systematics—the biological classification of plants—stretches from the work of ancient Greek to modern evolutionary biologists. As a field of science, plant systematics came into being only slowly, early plant lo ...

, and was the

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of many species within the botanical family

Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...

. The genus '' Winklera'' (

Regel Eduard August von Regel (sometimes Edward von Regel or Edward de Regel or Édouard von Regel), Russian: Эдуард Август Фон Регель; (born 13 August 1815 in Gotha; died 15 April 1892 in St. Petersburg) was a German horticultural ...

) commemorates his name, as do a number of species with the epithet of ''winkleri''; as an example, ''

Iris winkleri ''Iris winkleri'', or Winkler iris, is a species in the genus ''Iris'', classified in the subgenus ''Hermodactyloides'' and section ''Monolepsis''. It is a bulbous perennial from Turkestan, in Central Asia. Description The iris is deemed to be v ...

'' (Winkler iris).

Selected works

* ''Decades Compositarum novarum Turkestaniae nec non Bucharae incolorum'', 1885–91. * ''Plantae Turcomanicae a Radde, Walter, Antonow aliisque collectae'', 1889. * ''Diagnoses Compositarum novarum asiaticarum'', 1893–95. * ''Neue Cousinien des Orients'' (with Joseph Bornmüller), 1895. * ''Die flora des Alburs und der Kaspischen Südküste : bisherige Forschungsergebnisse auf diesem Gebiet'' (with

Friedrich Alexander Buhse Friedrich Alexander Buhse (30 November 1821, Riga – 29 December 1898) was a Baltic-German botanist. From 1840 he studied botany at the universities of Dorpat, Berlin and Heidelberg, receiving his PhD in 1843. In 1847-49, with Pierre Edmond Bo ...

), 1899.Most widely held works by Constantin Winkler
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