Josef (Joseph) August Schultes (15 April 1773 in
Vienna
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– 21 April 1831 in
Landshut) was an Austrian
botanist and professor from Vienna. Together with
Johann Jacob Roemer
Johann Jacob Roemer (8 January 1763, Zurich – 15 January 1819) was a physician and professor of botany in Zurich, Switzerland. He was also an entomologist.
With Austrian botanist Joseph August Schultes, he published the 16th edition of Ca ...
(1763–1819), he published the 16th edition of
Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
' ''Systema Vegetabilium''. In 1821, he was elected a foreign member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was the father of
Julius Hermann Schultes
Julius Hermann Schultes (4 February 1804 in Vienna – 1 September 1840 in Munich) was an Austrian botanist from Vienna. He co-authored volume 7 of the Roemer & Schultes edition of the ''Systema Vegetabilium'' with his father Josef August ...
(1804-1840).
In 1796 he received his doctorate at Vienna, where he was a student of
Johann Peter Frank (1745-1821). Later on, he served as a professor of botany and
natural history at the Theresianum in Vienna, followed by professorships at the Universities of
Krakow (1806) and
Innsbruck (1808). In 1809 he succeeded
Franz von Paula Schrank
Franz von Paula Schrank (21 August 1747, in Vornbach – 22 December 1835) was a German priest, botanist and entomologist.
He was ordained as a priest in Vienna in 1784, gaining his doctorate in theology two years later. In 1786 he was named ch ...
(1747-1835) at the
University of Landshut
The University of Applied Sciences Landshut (''Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Landshut'') is a Fachhochschule in Landshut, between Munich and Regensburg, with over 5000 students and over 100 professor
Professor (commonly abbr ...
as a professor of natural history and botany. At
Landshut, he also served as a medical director. Swedish botanist
Carl Peter Thunberg commissioned Schultes to edit the first complete edition of his Flora Capensis, which was published in 1823.
Publications
* Flora Austriaca'', 1794 (two volumes) - Flora of Austria.
* ''Ausflüge nach dem Schneeberg'', 1802 - Trips to
Schneeberg.
* ''Catalogus plantarum primus horti botanici Cracoviensis Universitatis'' 1807, secundus 1808; (a study of the botanical garden in Krakow).
* ''Reisen durch Oberösterreich'', 1809 (two volumes) - Travels through
Upper Austria
Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine states or of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, an ...
.
* ''Grundriss einer Geschichte und Literatur der Botanik von Theophrastos Eresics bis auf die neuesten Zeiten'', 1817 - Outline of a history and literature of botany from
Theophrastus
Theophrastus (; grc-gre, Θεόφραστος ; c. 371c. 287 BC), a Greek philosopher and the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He was a native of Eresos in Lesbos.Gavin Hardy and Laurence Totelin, ''Ancient Botany'', Routle ...
to the latest times.
* ''Flora Capensis'', 1823.
* ''Reise auf den Glockner'', 1824 - Trip to the
Grossglockner
The Grossglockner (german: Großglockner ; or just ''Glockner'') is, at 3,798 metres above the Adriatic (12,461 ft), the highest mountain in Austria and the highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass. It is part of the larger Glo ...
.
Biography
@ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
External links
Zoologica
Göttingen State and University Library
The Göttingen State and University Library (german: Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen or SUB Göttingen) is the library for Göttingen University as well as for the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and is the state li ...
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19th-century Austrian botanists
Austrian taxonomists
1773 births
1831 deaths
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Academics of the University of Innsbruck
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