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Stephan Endlicher
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Austrian botanist, linguist and numismatist (1804–1849)
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Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher was an Austrian botanist, bryologist, archaeologist, and sinologist born in Bratislava in 1804. He worked at the University of Vienna and spoke Latin and German. Endlicher was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Towarzystwo Naukowe Krakowskie. He received the award of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His notable works include *Stirpium Australasicarum herbarii Hugeliani decades tres*, *Atakta botanika*, *Endlicher's Paradisus vindobonensis*, *Nova genera ac species plantarum*, and *Rerum hungaricarum monumenta arpadiana*. Endlicher died in Vienna in 1849 and is buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery. His archives are held at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, and items from his collection are located at the Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, and the National Museum of Natural History.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1804
- Died
- 1849
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Stirpium Australasicarum herbarii Hugeliani decades tres
- Atakta botanika
- Endlicher's Paradisus vindobonensis
- Nova genera ac species plantarum, quas in regno chilensi peruviano et in terra amazonica annis MDCCCXXVII ad MDCCCXXXII
- Rerum hungaricarum monumenta arpadiana
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Key facts
- Born
- 24 June 1804 ( 1804-06-24 ) , Bratislava (Pozsony), Kingdom of Hungary , Habsburg Empire
- Died
- 28 March 1849 (1849-03-28) (aged 44), Vienna , Austrian Empire
- Other name
- Endlicher István László
- Known for
- Genera Plantarum
- Awards
- American Philosophical Society
- Fields
- Botany
- Institutions
- Austrian National Library , University of Vienna
- Author abbrev botany
- Endl.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Austrian Empire
- Place of birth
- Bratislava
- Place of death
- Vienna
- Employer
- University of Vienna
- Languages spoken
- German
- Field of work
- botany
- Image
- Endlicher.jpg
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- Commons category
- Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher
- date of birth
- 1804-01-01
- date of death
- 1849-01-01
- member of
- Towarzystwo Naukowe Krakowskie
- Commons gallery
- Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher
- name in native language
- Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher
- place of burial
- Vienna Central Cemetery
- P6944
- Stephan Endlicher
- archives at
- Natural History Museum, Vienna
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Encyclopedic overview
Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus Endlicher, also known as Endlicher István László (24 June 1804 – 28 March 1849), was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist. He was a director of the Botanical Garden of Vienna. The standard author abbreviation Endl. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.
Biography
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