Rudolf Karl Friedrich von Uechtritz (31 December 1838, Breslau – 21 November 1886, Breslau) was a German

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

. He was the son of Max von Uechtritz (1785–1851), a German rittmeister who conducted entomological and botanical studies (botanical abbreviation, "Uechtr."). He studied natural sciences at the University of Breslau as a pupil of Heinrich Göppert and

Ferdinand Cohn Ferdinand Julius Cohn (24 January 1828 – 25 June 1898) was a German biologist. He is one of the founders of modern bacteriology and microbiology. Ferdinand J. Cohn was born in the Jewish quarter of Breslau in the Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia ...

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Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB, german: Universal German Biography) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language. It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Aca ...

(ADB). Band 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, S. 126–27. In 1863 he terminated his studies at the university due to heart ailments and subsequently worked as a private scholar in Breslau.Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen, Volume 1
by Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers He is largely known for his investigations of plants native to Silesia, although he also conducted botanical research in his excursions to southern Moravia (1855), the central Carpathians (1856), Tirol and the neighboring areas of Bavaria,

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and northern Italy (1858) as well as to Thuringia, Franconia and Saxony (1860/61). He served as a custodian of the ''Schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur'', and was founder of the ''Schlesischen Botanischen Tauschvereins''. After his death, Adolf Engler purchased his

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and donated it to the University of Breslau. His library and manuscripts were also acquired by the university. The botanical genus ''

Uechtritzia ''Oreoseris'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to Anatolia, Central Asia, the Himalaya region, and Thailand. Originally described in 1838, it was resurrected with the Asian species of '' Gerbera'' and all the speci ...

'' ( Freyn, 1892) commemorates his name, as does taxa with the specific epithet of ''uechtritziana''.

Selected works

* ''Botanische Excursion in die Central-Karpathen'', 1857. * ''Bemerkungen über einige Pflanzen der ungarischen Flora'', 1866. * ''Zur Flora Ungarns'', 1871. * ''Resultate der Durchforschung der schlesischen Phanerogamenflora'', 1874-84. * ''Thlaspi banaticum, eine neue Species der ungarischen Flora'', 1875. * ''Flora von Schlesien preussischen und österreichischen Antheils'' (with Emil Fiek), 1881.OCLC WorldCat
published works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Uechtritz, Rudolf von 1838 births 1886 deaths Botanists from the Kingdom of Prussia Scientists from Wrocław University of Breslau alumni 19th-century German botanists