Constantin Freiherr von Ettingshausen (or Baron Constantin von Ettingshausen) (16 June 1826 in

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– 1 February 1897 in

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) was an

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known for his paleobotanical studies of flora from the

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. He was the son of

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Andreas von Ettingshausen.

Biography

In 1848 he graduated as a doctor of medicine in

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, and became in 1854 a professor of botany and natural history at the medical and surgical military academy in that city. In 1871 he was chosen professor of botany at

, a position which he maintained until the close of his life. From 1876 he made repeated visits to

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, where he arranged collections at the

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. He was distinguished for his researches on the

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s of various parts of

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, and on the

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floras of

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and

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. The extinct genus ''Ettingshausenia'' (family

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) was named in his honor by

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(1857).

Publications

* ''Physiotypia plantarum austriacarum'' (with Alois Pokorny), 1856 –. * ''Physiographie der Medicinal Pflanzen'' (1862). * ''Die Farnkruter der Jetztwelt zur Untersuchung and Bestimmung der in den Formationen der Erdrinde eingeschiossenen Uberreste von vorweltlichen Arten dieser Ordnung nach dem Flächen-Skelet bearbeitet'' (1865). * ''A Monograph of the British Eocene Flora'' (with

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), vol. 1. Filices, 1879-82. -- vol. 2. Gymnospermæ, by J. Gardner. 1883-86. * ''Contributions to the Tertiary flora of Australia'' (translated by Arvid Neilson, 1888). * ''Contributions to the knowledge of the fossil flora of New Zealand'' (translated by C. Juhl, 1890).Most widely held works by Constantin Ettingshausen
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ettingshausen, Constantin von 19th-century Austrian botanists Austrian paleontologists Paleobotanists 1826 births 1897 deaths 19th-century Austrian geologists Austrian mycologists Bryologists Phycologists Pteridologists Botanists active in Australia Botanists active in New Zealand Botanists with author abbreviations Austrian expatriates in Australia Austrian expatriates in New Zealand Barons of Austria Scientists from Vienna