Wladimir de Schoenefeld (12 January 1816 in
Berlin
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– 8 September 1875 in
Paris
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) was a German-born, French
botanist.
From 1817 to 1833 he lived in France, then moved back to Berlin, where he stayed with botanist
Karl Sigismund Kunth
Carl Sigismund Kunth (18 June 1788 – 22 March 1850), also Karl Sigismund Kunth or anglicized as Charles Sigismund Kunth, was a German botanist. He is known for being one of the first to study and categorise plants from the American continents, ...
for several years prior to his return to
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
(1840). In Paris, he studied botany under
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (23 December 1797 – 29 June 1853) was a French botanist.
Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Eupho ...
and became good friends with
Ernest Cosson
Ernest Saint-Charles Cosson (22 July 1819 – 31 December 1889) was a French botanist born in Paris.
Cosson is known for his botanical research in North Africa, and during his career he participated in eight trips to Algeria. In several of these ...
.
[BHL]
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
In 1854 he was a founding member of the ''
Société Botanique de France
The Société botanique de France (SBF) is a French learned society founded on 23 April 1854. At its inaugural meeting it stated its purpose as "to contribute to the progress of botany and related sciences and to facilitate, by all means at its di ...
'', serving as its secretary-general from 1862 to 1875.
[ Following his death, Ernest Cosson published the biography, "''Notice biographique sur Wladimir de Schoenefeld''" (1876). The botanical genus '' Schoenefeldia'' (family Poaceae) was named in his honor by Karl Sigismund Kunth.
]
Published works
* ''Rapport sur une herborisation faite par la Société dans la forêt de Fontainebleau'', 1855 - Report of herborization made by the Société in Fontainebleau Forest.
* ''Sur un échantillon de Primula officinalis'', 1856 - Involving a sample of Primula officinalis.
* ''Sur Trifolium elegans et T. hybridum'', 1862 - On Trifolium elegans and Trifolium hybridum.
* ''Rapport sur une excursion faite en août 1860 par la Société botanique de France'', 1863 - Report on an excursion made in August 1860 by the Société.Société Botanique du Centre-Ouest - Articles - Tela Botanica
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References
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1816 births
1875 deaths
19th-century French botanists
Scientists from Berlin