Eduard Fenzl Explained

Eduard Fenzl (1808, in Krummnußbaum – 1879, in Vienna) was an Austrian botanist.[1]

Life and contributions

An obituary notes "[he] was Professor of Botany and Director of the Imperial Botanical Cabinet, a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences, and Vice-President of the Vienna Horticultural Society."[2]

Fenzl made contributions towards Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius's Flora Brasiliensis and to Stephan Endlicher's Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae, etc. He was the author of Pugillus plantarum novarum Syriæ et Tauri occidentalis primus (1842).[3]

The plant genus Fenzlia is named in his honor.[4]

Works

As author

As editor

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/187057.html UNI Goettingen.de, Department of Systematic Botany
  2. Popular Science Monthly Vol. 16 "Notes." p. 432
  3. http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr00-26963 WorldCat Identities
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=AmshAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA466 The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: