Heinrich Carl Haussknecht (30 November 1838 – 7 July 1903) was a German
pharmacist
A pharmacist, also known as a chemist (Commonwealth English) or a druggist (North American and, archaically, Commonwealth English), is a healthcare professional who prepares, controls and distributes medicines and provides advice and instructi ...
and
botanical collector
Plant collecting is the acquisition of plant specimens for the purposes of research, cultivation, or as a hobby. Plant specimens may be kept alive, but are more commonly dried and pressed to preserve the quality of the specimen. Plant collecting i ...
who was a native of
Bennungen
Bennungen is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the municipality Südharz.
Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt
Südharz
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,
Sachsen-Anhalt.
Trained as a pharmacist, Haussknecht is remembered for collecting and describing numerous species of plants. His botanical explorations took place in
Thuringia,
Lower Saxony,
Greece and the
Middle East (the present-day nations of
Turkey,
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
,
Iraq,
Iran), where he discovered, among others ''
Tulipa aleppensis
''Tulipa aleppensis'' is a wild tulip in the family Liliaceae. It is native to Southeastern Turkey, Syria, near Beirut in Lebanon.Anna Pavord, The Tulip. Bloomsbury 1999, 289
Description
''Tulipa aleppensis'' belongs to the genus ''Tulipa'' (fa ...
''. He established a large
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 ...
in
Weimar, which after his death was placed under the supervision of
Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller
Joseph Friedrich Nicolaus Bornmüller (February 6, 1862 – December 19, 1948) was a German botanist born in Hildburghausen, Thuringia.
Biography
He studied horticulture in Potsdam, and in 1886 traveled to the Balkans and Greece on his first bo ...
(1862–1948). In 1949, the "Herbarium Haussknecht" was transferred to the
University of Jena.
Haussknecht specialized in the study of the genus ''
Epilobium'' from the botanical family
Onagraceae. In 1884 he published a
monograph
A monograph is a specialist work of writing (in contrast to reference works) or exhibition on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, often by a single author or artist, and usually on a scholarly subject.
In library cataloging, ''monograph ...
on the genus called ''Monographie der Gattung Epilobium''. The botanical genus ''
Haussknechtia
''Haussknechtia'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae. It only contains one species, ''Haussknechtia elymaitica''. It is commonly known as ''johour'' or white celery in Iran.
It is a perennial plant, that i ...
'' was named in his honour by
Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810-1885) in 1872.
Also he was honoured in ''Ferula haussknechtii'' in 1952.
References
* This article incorporates information based on a translation of an equivalent article at the
Spanish Wikipedia.
External links
IPNIList of botanical species described & co-described by Haussknecht
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1838 births
1903 deaths
People from Südharz
19th-century German botanists
German pharmacists