August Heintze Explained

August Heintze
Birth Date:	26 September 1881
Birth Place:	Skurup, Sweden
Death Place:	Stockholm
Nationality:	Swedish
Author Abbrev Bot:	Heintze

(Sven) August Heintze (1881–1941) (sometimes spelled Heinze) was a Swedish botanist.

Life

Heintze was born on 26 September 1881 to Fredrik and Kerstin (née Svensson) Heintze in Skurup, Skåne. He had a younger sister, Anna Maria (b. 1889). He enrolled as a student at Lund University in 1901. He graduated in 1906, and earned his doctorate in 1913. His first position was as a teacher at Uddevalla kommunalgymnasium. Heintze died on 6 May 1941 in Stockholm, and is buried in the Skurups Norra Kyrkogård ("Skurup's Northern Cemetery").

He is known for his work on the classification of cormophytes, particularly the family Ranuculaceae.

Selected publications

Publications include:

• Book: Heintze. August. August Heintze. Cormofyternas Fylogeni (Phylogenie der cormophyten). 1927. Håkan Ohlssons boktryckeri. Lund. 10 January 2016. Swedish. (Cormofyt. Fylog.) (Abstract in German.)
• Heintze, August. (1932–1935) Handbuch der Verbreitungsökologie der Pflanzen. Stockholm, Selbstverlag
• Heintze, August. (1908) Växtgeografiska anteckningar från ett par färder genom Skibottendalen i Tromsö amt. Arkiv Bot. v 7 no 11
• Heintze, August. (1913) Växttopografiska undersökningar i Åsele Lappmarks fjälltrakter. I–II Arkiv Bot. v 12 no 11; v 13 no 5
• Heintze, August. (1909) Växtgeografiska undersökningar i Råne socken af Norrbottens län. Arkiv Bot. v 9 no 8

Legacy

Published names include:

• Burmanniales Heintze, Cormofyt. Fylog.: 159 1927.
  • Burmanniidae Heintze, Cormofyt. Fylog.: 10. 1927.
• Marattiophyta Heintze, Cormofyt. Fylog.: 22. 1927.
• Orchididae Heintze, Cormofyt. Fylog.: 10. 1927.
• Oxalidales Heintze, Cormofyt. Fylog.: 13, 126 1927.
• Paeoniales Heintze, Cormofyt. Fylog.: 12. 1927
• Psilotophyta Heintze, Cormofyt. Fylog.: 22. 1927.
• Ranunculaceae subfam. Thalictroideae Heintze, Cormofyt. Fylog.: 103 1927.
  • Trolliinae Heintze, Cormfyt. Fylog.: 103. 1927

Bibliography

• Web site: Heintze, Sven August. Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries: Index of Botanists. 2015. .
• Erdtman. Gunnar. August Heintze 26.9 1881-6.5 1941. Några minnesord. A remembrance. Svensk Bot. Tidskr.. 39. 4. 441–444. 1945. swedish.
• Web site: Sven August Heintze. Geni. 13 January 2016. 2 March 2014. .
• Web site: Sven August Heintze. Gravar.se. 13 January 2016. swedish. .
• Book: Wieselgren. Oscar Harald. Svenska män och kvinnor: biografisk uppslagsbok, Volume 3. 1946. Bonnier. Stockholm. swedish.
• Book: Krok. Thorgny Ossian Bolivar Napoleon. Aulin. Fredrik Rutger. Lindman. Carl Axel Magnus. Bibliotheca botanica Suecana: ab antiquissimis temporibus ad finem anni MCMXVIII. 1925. Almqvist & Wiksell. Uppsala.
• Web site: LIBRIS. National Library of Sweden. 14 January 2016. .
• Book: Kubitzki. Klaus. Bayer. Clemens. Klaus Kubitzki. The families and genera of vascular plants. Vol.5. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons: Malvales, Capparales and Non-betalain Caryophyllales. 2003. Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Germany. 978-3-662-07255-4. 14 January 2016.
• Kumazawa. Masao. Systematic and Phylogenetic Consideration of the Ranunculaceae and Berberidaceae. Shokubutsugaku Zasshi. 1938. 52. 613. 9–15. 10.15281/jplantres1887.52.9. free.
• Web site: Reveal. James L. James Reveal. Latest NEWS on Vascular Plant Family Nomenclature. Plant systematics. University of Maryland: Norton-Brown Herbarium. 20 July 2000. 14 January 2016.