Otto Kunze ( German: Karl Ernst Otto Kuntze ; 1843-1907) is a German botanist and traveler known for his attempts to radically reform the botanical taxonomy .
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| him. Karl Ernst Otto Kuntze | |
 Photo from the book “ Botanistes Allemands ” (German Botanists) | |
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| Date of death | 1907 |
| Place of death | San Remo , Italy |
| A country | German Empire |
| Scientific field | Botany |
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| Known as | The author of an alternative botanical taxonomy . |
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation " Kuntze " . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website Earlier, in some sources, the notation O.Kuntze and O.Ktze were used. |
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Short Biography
By first education, Otto Kunze was a pharmacist .
In 1863-1866, he worked in the field of commerce in Berlin , traveled to Central Europe and Italy . In 1868-1873 was the owner of a factory for the production of essential oils . In the years 1874-1876 he traveled around the world, visited the Caribbean Islands , the USA , Japan , China , Southeast Asia , the Arabian Peninsula and Egypt . A travel diary was published in 1881 under the title Around the World .
From 1876 to 1878 he studied natural sciences in Berlin and Leipzig , defended his doctoral dissertation in Freiburg - this was a monograph on the genus Hinoe tree ( Cinchona ).
In 1886 , Kunze visited Russian Near East Asia , and spent 1887 - 1888 in the Canary Islands . The results of both trips became part of his main work - the three-volume work Revisio Generum Plantarum , published in 1891 and based on an analysis of the botanical collection he collected during his trips. This work caused shock and misunderstanding in the scientific world, since Kunze completely changed the existing botanical taxonomy in it.
In the early 1890s, he left for South America and was in almost all countries of this region. In 1894, he traveled to South Africa , including visiting German colonies .
In 1904, he visited Australia , New Zealand , Ceylon , Samoa , Hawaii and the United States .
In 1905, at the Second International Botanical Congress in Vienna, his revolutionary ideas in the field of botanical nomenclature again found no understanding among scientists.
Many botanical taxa are named after Otto Kunze [4] .
Kunze’s works described more than five hundred genera of plants and a huge number of species, probably several tens of thousands.
Scientific work
- Taschen-Flora von Leipzig . - Leipzig, 1867.
- Rubus-Reform deutscher Brombeeren . - 1867.
- Cinchona . - Haessel, 1878. (German)
- Um die Erde . - Leipzig, 1881.
- Plantae orientale-rossica . - 1887.
- Revisio generum plantarum . - Leipzig, A. Felix (in three parts, part 1 - 1891, part 2 - 1891, part 3 - 1893.) (German)
- Geogenetische Beiträge . - Druck von Gressner & Schramm, 1895.
- Lexicon generum phanerogamarum inde ab anno MDCCXXXVII: 1902.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 117555142 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Southern Africa Association for the Advancement of Science - 1902.
- ↑ List of species named after Otto Kunz on The International Plant Names Index
Literature
- Zanoni TA Otto Kuntze botanist. Biography, bibliography, and travels. // Brittonia. 1980. 32, 551-571. - Otto Kunze, nerd. Biography, bibliography, travel.