Veit Brecher Wittrock

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Veit Brecher Wittrock (5 May 1839 at district of Dalsland – 1 September 1914 in Stockholm) was a Swedish botanist known for his work in the field of phycology and for his research of the genus Viola.[1]

Biography

From 1857 to 1865 he studied at the University of Uppsala, then spent the next thirteen years as a gymnasium teacher in Uppsala. In 1878 he became an associate professor at the University of Uppsala. From 1879 to 1904 he served as a professor and curator of the botanical collections at the Naturhistoriska riksmuseet in Stockholm. In Stockholm, he was also a professor and director of the Bergianska trädgården (1879–1914).[2]

Botanical eponymy

Selected works

  • Försök till en monographi öfver algslägtet Monostroma, 1866.
  • Algologiska studier. I och II, 1867.
  • Dispositio oedogoniacearum suecicarum, 1870.
  • Prodromus monographiae oedogoniearum, 1874.
  • "On the development and systematic arrangement of the Pithophoraceæ, a new order of algae", 1877.
  • Skandinaviens gymnospermer, 1887.
  • Viola studier (1895–1897; 2 volumes).
  • Botanisk-historiska fragment, 1906.
  • (As editor): Acta horti Bergiani. Meddelanden från Kungl. Svenska vetenskaps-akademiens Trädgård Bergielund.[3][4]

References

  1. Wittrock, Veit Brecher (1839-1914) JSTOR Global Plants
  2. 2.0 2.1 BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  3. OCLC Classify published works
  4. HathiTrust Digital Library published works
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