Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten Explained

Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (6 November 1817, in Stralsund – 10 July 1908, in Zoppot) was a German botanist and geologist.

Biography

Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 the northern part of South America (Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia). From 1856 to 1868, he was a professor at the agricultural college in Berlin, afterwards serving as a professor of plant physiology at the University of Vienna (1868–72).[1] In 1881, at the suggestion of David Friedrich Weinland, Karsten became convinced of the correctness of Otto Hahn's organic theory of the chondrites and, as a result, wrote an essay entitled "Die Meteorite und ihre Organismen"[2] in which he declared his support for Hahn's theory. He died 1908 in Berlin-Grunewald.

As a taxonomist, he was the binomial author of many botanical species.[3]

Selected bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.herbarien.uzh.ch/static/database/sammlerdetails_de.php?id=5094 © Universität Zürich, Zürcher Herbarien
  2. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/249495308 WorldCat permalink
  3. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_authorAbbrev=H.Karst.&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isAPNIRecord=false&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=false&find_isIKRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=false&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_sortByFamily=on&find_sortByFamily=off&query_type=by_query IPNI
  4. https://archive.org/details/the-meteorite-and-its-organisms archive.org English translation