Eduard Killias Explained

Eduard Killias (1 March 1829, in Chur – 14 November 1891, in Chur) was a Swiss physician and naturalist.

He studied medicine in Tübingen, Zurich, Bern, Prague and Vienna, obtaining his doctorate in medicine and surgery in 1852. Afterwards, he worked as a physician in his hometown of Chur and as a balneologist in Tarasp. He was long-time president of the Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Graubündens (1859–1891) and also served as vice-president of the Historisch-Antiquarischen Gesellschaft Graubündens.[1] [2]

He was the author of several works on bryophytes native to the canton of Graubünden, and in the field of entomology, he was principal author of the five-volume "Beiträge zu einem Verzeichnisse der Insectenfauna Graubündens".[3] His studies on the mineral waters at Tarasp were later translated into English and published as "Tarasp and its mineral waters" (Nettleton Balme Whitby; publisher: London: Bosworth, 1870).[4]

Taxa with the specific epithet of killiasii are named after him, an example being the moss species, Orthotrichum killiasii (Müll.Hal.).[5]

Botanical works

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=_5lMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA475 Google Books
  2. http://www.swissbryophytes.ch/content/geschichte-der-bryologie/bryologen?personen_id=458 Geschichte der Bryologie in der Schweiz
  3. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/266077244 WorldCat Title
  4. http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?search-author-txt=%22Killias%2C+E.+%28Eduard%29%2C+1829-1891.%22 OCLC Classify
  5. http://plants.jstor.org/specimen/bm000982168 JSTOR Global Plants