Gustav Kunze (4 October 1793 in Leipzig – 30 April 1851 in Leipzig) was a German professor of zoology, an entomologist and botanist with an interest mainly in ferns and orchids.[1]
Kunze joined the Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh in 1817. He later became Zoology Professor at Leipzig University and in 1837 was appointed director of the Botanical Gardens in Leipzig. In 1851, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Works edit
- Beiträge zur Monographie der Rohrkäfer. Neue Schrift. Naturf. Ges. Halle, 2 (4): 1-56. (1818).
- Die Farrnkrauter in Kolorirten Abbildungen: Naturgetreu Erläutert und Beschrieben. 2 volumes (1847-1851).
- Index Filicum (sensu latissimo) in Hortis Europæis Cultarum Synonymis Interpositis Auctus, cura A. Baumanni. Orig. in Linnaea XXXIII (1850). Pub. as book (1853).
- Zeugophora (Jochträger) eine neue Käfergattung. Neue Schrift. Naturf. Ges. Halle, 2 (4):. 71-76.(1818).
- with Philipp Wilbrand Jacob Müller 1822. Monographie der Ameisenkäfer (Scydmaenus Latreille). Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Leipzig 1: 175–204.[3]
Collection edit
His collection is in Naturkundemuseum Leipzig.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Scholz, Albrecht (1999), "Mykologie", Geschichte der Dermatologie in Deutschland, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 251–257, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-58502-9_10, ISBN 978-3-642-63623-3, retrieved 2023-02-23
- ^ Elliot, Rodger W.; Jones, David L.; Blake, Trevor (1993). Encyclopaedia of Australian Plants Suitable for Cultivation: Volume 6 (K-M). Port Melbourne: Lothian Press. p. 15. ISBN 0-85091-589-9.
- ^ Biographie, Deutsche. "Kunze, Gustav - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-02-23.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Kunze.