Gustav Heynhold (or ''Gustav Heinhold''; 1800–1860) was a German botanist who worked at the botanic gardens of

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

and

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

. In 1828 he was in

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provi ...

where he carried out mapping and published "Uebersicht der Vegetation in den Umgebungen Triest's; von Hrn. Gustav Heynhold zu Dresden." His best-known work was the '' Nomenclator Botanicus Hortensis'', an index of the botanical names of garden plants. It is not certain whether he had an academic degree or title. In 1846 the "Botanischen Centralblatt für Deutschland" listed him as a private scholar in Dresden. In total he was responsible for naming some 426 plant species. In 1841, he renamed ''Arabis thaliana'' as ''

Arabidopsis thaliana ''Arabidopsis thaliana'', the thale cress, mouse-ear cress or arabidopsis, is a small flowering plant native to Eurasia and Africa. ''A. thaliana'' is considered a weed; it is found along the shoulders of roads and in disturbed land. A winter a ...

'' (L.) Heynh. ''Arabidopsis'' was the first plant to have its genome sequenced, and is frequently used as a model for understanding the molecular biology of many plant traits, including flower development and light sensing.

Works

* ''Das natürliche Pflanzensystem : ein Versuch, die gegenseitigen Verwandtschaften der Pflanzen aufzufinden ... : mit Berücksichtigung der arzneilichen und überhaupt anwendbaren Gewächse, nebst einer historischen Einleitung'', Publisher : Dresden ; Leipzig : in der Arnoldischen Buchhandlung, 1840.Gustav Heynhold on www.biodiversitylibrary.org
/ref> * '' Nomenclator Botanicus Hortensis'' in 2 parts * ''Flora von Sachsen ...wildwachsenden und allgemein angebauten Pflanzen'' Dresden; Verlag: J. Naumann 1842 * ''Flora oder Botanische Zeitung. Nro. 42. Regensburg, 1829 - Uebersicht der Vegetation in den Umgebungen Triest's''; von Hrn. Gustav Heynhold zu Dresden. * ''Flora von Sachsen : Clavis generum : eine synoptische Darstellung der zu diesem Florengebiet gehörigen Gattungen der ersten Abtheilung (der Phanerogamen), zum erleichterten Bestimmen, nebst einem deutschen Register derselben'' * ''Die Rhodoraceae oder Rhododendreae : eine Anleitung zur Cultur dieser Pflanzenfamilie'', Traugott Jakob Seidel (1833- 1896) und Gustav Haynhold, Arnoldische Buchhandlung; erste Auflage 1843; zweite Auflage 1846 * ''Kryptogamie'', Heinrich David August Ficinus; Gustav Heynhold; C Schubert - Arnoldsche Buchh. 1823

References

External links

*
Gustav Heynhold on ipni.org
19th-century German botanists 1800 births 1860 deaths {{Germany-botanist-stub

Works

See also

References

External links