Biography:Heinrich Wilhelm Schott

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Short description: Austrian botanist (1794–1865)
Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
Heinrich Wilhelm Schott.jpg
Born
Brno, Moravia
Died5 May 1865(1865-05-05) (aged 71)
Vienna, Austrian Empire
NationalityAustrian
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
Known forstudy of aroids, participation in the Austrian Brazil Expedition
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsSchönbrunn Palace
Author abbrev. (botany)Schott

Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (7 January 1794 – 5 March 1865) was an Austrian botanist. He is known for his extensive work on aroids (Araceae).

Biography

Schott was born on 7 January 1794 in Brno, Moravia. He studied botany, agriculture and chemistry at the University of Vienna, where he was a pupil of Joseph Franz von Jacquin (1766–1839). He was a participant in the Austrian Brazil Expedition from 1817 to 1821. In 1828 he was appointed Hofgärtner (royal gardener) in Vienna, later serving as director of the Imperial Gardens at Schönbrunn Palace (1845). In 1852 he was in charge of transforming part of palace gardens in the fashion of an English garden. He also enriched the Viennese court gardens with his collections from Brazil . He was also interested in Alpine flora, and was responsible for development of the alpinum at Belvedere Palace in Vienna.

In 2008, botanists P.C.Boyce & S.Y.Wong published Schottarum, a genus of flowering plants from Borneo belonging to the family Araceae.[1] Then they published Schottariella, a monotypic genus of flowering plants from Borneo belonging to the family Araceae, both genera were named in honour of Heinrich Wilhelm Schott.[2]

Schott died on 5 March 1865 at Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, at the age of 71.

The standard author abbreviation Schott is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]

Publications

  • Meletemata botanica (with Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher), 1832
  • Rutaceae. Fragmenta botanica, 1834
  • Genera filicum, 1834–1836
  • Aroideae, 1853–1857
  • Analecta botanica (with Theodor Kotschy and Carl Fredrik Nyman), 1854
  • Synopsis Aroidearum, 1856
  • Icones Aroidearum, 1857
  • Genera Aroidearum Exposita, 1858
  • Prodromus Systematis Aroidearum, 1860

References

  1. ↑ "Schottarum P.C.Boyce & S.Y.Wong". Plants of the World Online. Kew Science. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77095598-1. 
  2. ↑ "Schottariella P.C.Boyce & S.Y.Wong". Plants of the World Online. Kew Science. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77099698-1. 
  3. ↑ IPNI,  Schott, http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=Schott 

External links

Further reading

  • Riedl, H.; Riedl-Dorn, Christa: Heinrich Wilhelm Schott's botanical collections at the Vienna Natural History Museum; International Association for Plant Taxonomy. Utrecht (1988) ISBN/ISSN 0040-0262



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