Eduard Killias (1 March 1829, in

Chur , neighboring_municipalities= Arosa, Churwalden, Tschiertschen-Praden, Domat/Ems, Felsberg, Malix, Trimmis, Untervaz, Pfäfers , twintowns = Bad Homburg (Germany), Cabourg (France), Mayrhofen (Austria), Mondorf-les-Bains (Luxembourg), ...

– 14 November 1891, in Chur) was a Swiss physician and naturalist. He studied medicine in

Tübingen Tübingen (, , Swabian: ''Dibenga'') is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers. about one in thr ...

, Zurich,

Bern german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese , neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen , website ...

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

and

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, obtaining his doctorate in medicine and

surgery Surgery ''cheirourgikē'' (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via la, chirurgiae, meaning "hand work". is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a person to investigate or treat a pat ...

in 1852. Afterwards, he worked as a physician in his hometown of

and as a

balneologist Balneotherapy ( la, balneum "bath") is a method of treating diseases by bathing, a traditional medicine technique usually practiced at spas. Since ancient times, humans have used hot springs, public baths and thermal medicine for therapeutic ef ...

Tarasp Tarasp is a former municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Its eleven settlements are situated within the Lower Engadin valley along the Inn River, at the foot of the Sesvenna Range. On 1 January 2015 the former ...

. He was long-time president of the ''Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubündens'' (1859–1891) and also served as vice-president of the ''Historisch-Antiquarischen Gesellschaft Graubündens''.Geschichte der Bryologie in der Schweiz
Biography He was the author of several works on

bryophyte The Bryophyta s.l. are a proposed taxonomic division containing three groups of non-vascular land plants (embryophytes): the liverworts, hornworts and mosses. Bryophyta s.s. consists of the mosses only. They are characteristically limited in ...

s native to the canton of Graubünden, and in the field of

entomology Entomology () is the science, scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such ...

, he was principal author of the five-volume "''Beiträge zu einem Verzeichnisse der Insectenfauna Graubündens''". His studies on the

mineral waters Mineral water is water from a mineral spring that contains various minerals, such as salts and sulfur compounds. Mineral water may usually be still or sparkling (carbonated/effervescent) according to the presence or absence of added gases. Tr ...

were later translated into English and published as "Tarasp and its mineral waters" (Nettleton Balme Whitby; publisher: London: Bosworth, 1870). Taxa with the specific epithet of ''killiasii'' are named after him, an example being the moss species, ''Orthotrichum killiasii'' ( Müll.Hal.).JSTOR Global Plants
Orthotrichum killiasii

Botanical works

* ''Verzeichniss der bündnerischen Laubmoose''. — Jahresbericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubündens n. F. 4: 77–134. (1859) – Directory of Graubünden

moss Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) '' sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and hor ...

es. * ''Beiträge zur rhätischen Flora''. — Jahresbericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubündens n. F. 5: 71–81. (1860) Contributions to

Rhaetian The Rhaetian is the latest age of the Triassic Period (in geochronology) or the uppermost stage of the Triassic System (in chronostratigraphy). It was preceded by the Norian and succeeded by the Hettangian (the lowermost stage or earliest age ...

flora. * ''Zweiter Nachtrag zu den Moos- und Flechtenverzeichnissen''. — Jahresbericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubündens n. F. 6: 245–251. (1861) – Second addendum to moss and

lichen A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.cryptogam A cryptogam (scientific name Cryptogamae) is a plant (in the wide sense of the word) or a plant-like organism that reproduces by spores, without flowers or seeds. The name ''Cryptogamae'' () means "hidden reproduction", referring to the fact ...

ic flora * ''Lebermoose. (unter: Beiträge zur bündnerischen Kryptogamenflora)''. — Jahresbericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubündens n. F. 11: 189–200. (1866) –

Liverwort The Marchantiophyta () are a division of non-vascular land plants commonly referred to as hepatics or liverworts. Like mosses and hornworts, they have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of g ...

s, Contributions to Graubünden cryptogamic flora. * ''Die Flora des Unterengadins''. — Jahresbericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubündens n. F. 31 (Beilage): I–LXXV, 1–266. (1888) – The flora of the

Lower Engadine The Engadin or Engadine ( rm, ;This is the name in the two Romansh idioms that are spoken in the Engadin, Vallader and Puter, as well as in Sursilvan and Rumantsch Grischun. In Surmiran, the name is ''Nagiadegna'', and in Sutsilvan, it is '' ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Killias, Eduard 1829 births 1891 deaths People from Chur 19th-century Swiss physicians 19th-century Swiss botanists Swiss entomologists Bryologists