Gustav Kunze (4 October 1793,
Leipzig
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– 30 April 1851, Leipzig)
was a German professor of
zoology
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, an
entomologist
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and botanist with an interest mainly in ferns and orchids.
Kunze joined the
Wernerian Natural History Society
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in
Edinburgh
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in 1817. He later became Zoology Professor at
Leipzig University
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and in 1837 was appointed director of the
Botanical Gardens in Leipzig. In 1851 he was elected a foreign member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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.
The plant genus ''
Kunzea
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'' was named in his honour.
Works
* Beiträge zur Monographie der Rohrkäfer. ''Neue Schrift. Naturf. Ges. Halle'', 2 (4): 1-56. (1818).
* Die Farrnkrauter in Kolorirten Abbildungen: Naturgetreu Erläutert und Beschrieben. 2 volumes (1847-1851).
* Index Filicum (''sensu latissimo'') in Hortis Europæis Cultarum Synonymis Interpositis Auctus, cura A. Baumanni. Orig. in ''Linnaea'' XXXIII (1850). Pub. as book (1853).
* Zeugophora (Jochträger) eine neue Käfergattung. ''Neue Schrift. Naturf. Ges. Halle'', 2 (4):. 71-76.(1818).
*with
Philipp Wilbrand Jacob Müller 1822. ''Monographie der Ameisenkäfer (''Scydmaenus'' Latreille)''. Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Leipzig 1: 175–204.
Collection
His collection is in
Naturkundemuseum Leipzig.
See also
*
:Taxa named by Gustav Kunze
References
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19th-century German botanists
German mycologists
German entomologists
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
1793 births
1851 deaths
Scientists from Leipzig
German zoologists