August Grisebach

August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach
Born	(1814-04-17)17 April 1814 Hanover, Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire
Died	9 May 1879(1879-05-09) (aged 65) Göttingen, Province of Hanover, Kingdom of Prussia
Scientific career
Author abbrev. (botany)	Griseb.

August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach (pronounced [ˈaʊɡʊst ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈɡʁiːzəbax]; 17 April 1814 – 9 May 1879) was a German botanist and phytogeographer.

Biography

Grisebach studied at the Lyceum in Hanover, the cloister-school at Ilfeld, and the University of Göttingen. He graduated in medicine from the University of Berlin in 1836. He undertook expeditions to Provence, Turkey, the Balkans, and Norway. In 1837 he became associate professor and in 1847 full professor at the medical faculty in Göttingen and was named director of the botanical garden there in 1875. While his main fields of interest were phytogeography and systematics, especially the Gentianaceae and Malpighiaceae, he considered his Flora of the British West Indian Islands his most important work. Much of his collection, especially the types of species described by him, are housed at the Göttingen University Herbarium.^[1] His taxonomic classification is set out in his Grundriss der systematischen Botanik (1854). His son Eduard was an author, lawyer and diplomat.

Selected works

References

Bibliography

External links

• Complete bibliography on WorldCat
• Plantae Wrightianae e Cuba Orientali at Botanicus
• Catalogus plantarum cubensium (Catalog of Plants of Cuba) 1866, at Botanicus
• Plantae Wrightianae e Cuba Orientali by A. Grisebach at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
• Grisebach, A. (1857) Systematische Untersuchungen über die Vegetation der Karaiben, insbesondere der Insel Guadeloupe at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
• Malpighiaceae/Grisebach

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List of systems of plant taxonomy

This is a selected list of the more influential systems. There are many other systems, for instance a review of earlier systems, published by Lindley in his 1853 edition, and Dahlgren (1982). Examples include the works of Scopoli, Ventenat, Batsch and Grisebach.

Pre-Linnaean
John Ray system (1686–1704) A discourse on the seeds of plants Methodus plantarum nova De Variis Plantarum Methodis Dissertatio Brevis Methodus plantarum emendata et aucta

Pre-Darwinian

Linnaean system (1735–51) Systema Naturae Species Plantarum Genera Plantarum Philosophia Botanica Adanson system (1763) Familles naturelles des plantes De Jussieu system (1789) Genera Plantarum, secundum ordines naturales disposita juxta methodum in Horto Regio Parisiensi exaratam De Candolle system (1819–24) Théorie élémentaire de la botanique, ou exposition des principes de la classification naturelle et de l'art de décrire et d'etudier les végétaux Prodromus systemati naturalis regni vegetabilis sive enumeratio contracta ordinum, generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarum, juxta methodi naturalis normas digesta Berchtold and Presl system (1820–1823) O Prirozenosti Rostlin Agardh system (1825) Classes Plantarum Gray system (1821) The Natural Arrangement of British Plants Perleb system (1826) Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte des Pflanzenreichs Dumortier system (1829) Analyse des familles des plantes Lindley system (1830–45) An Introduction to the Natural System of Botany The Vegetable Kingdom Don system (1834) General History of Dichlamydious Plants. Bentham & Hooker system (1862–83) Genera plantarum ad exemplaria imprimis in herbariis kewensibus servata definita. Baillon system (1867–94) Histoire des plantes

Post-Darwinian (Phyletic)

Nineteenth century Eichler system (1875–1886) Blüthendiagramme: construirt und erläutert Syllabus der Vorlesungen über Phanerogamenkunde Engler system (1886–1924) Führer durch den Königlich botanischen Garten der Universität zu Breslau Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien Das Pflanzenreich van Tieghem system (1891) Traité de botanique Twentieth century Dalla Torre & Harms system (1900–07) Genera Siphonogamarum, ad systema Englerianum conscripta Warming system (1912) Haandbog i den systematiske botanik Hallier system (1912) L'origine et le système phylétique des angiospermes Bessey system (1915) The phylogenetic taxonomy of flowering plants Wettstein system (1901–35) Handbuch der systematischen Botanik Lotsy system (1907–11) Vorträge über botanische Stammesgeschichte, gehalten an der Reichsuniversität zu Leiden. Ein Lehrbuch der Pflanzensystematik. Hutchinson system (1926–73) The families of flowering plants, arranged according to a new system based on their probable phylogeny Calestani system (1933) Le origini e la classificazione delle Angiosperme Kimura system (1956) Système et phylogénie des monocotyledones Emberger system (1960) Traité de Botanique systématique Melchior system (1964) Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien Takhtajan system (1966–97) A system and phylogeny of the flowering plants Flowering plants: origin and dispersal Diversity and classification of flowering plants Cronquist system (1968–81) The evolution and classification of flowering plants An integrated system of classification of flowering plants Goldberg system (1986–89 Classification, Evolution and Phylogeny of the Families of Dicotyledons Dahlgren system (1975–85) The families of the monocotyledons: structure, evolution, and taxonomy Thorne system (1968–2000) An updated phylogenetic classification of the flowering plants Kubitzki system (1990–) The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants Reveal system (1997) Reveal System of Angiosperm Classification

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group System (1998–)

An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants (APG I) An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III Chase & Reveal System (2009) An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV Angiosperm Phylogeny Website

See also

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