Constantin von Ettingshausen
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Constantin Freiherr von Ettingshausen (or Baron Constantin von Ettingshausen) (June 16, 1826 - February 1, 1897) was an Austrian geologist and botanist.
Ettinghausen was born in Vienna. He graduated as a doctor of medicine in Vienna, and became in 1854 professor of botany and natural history at the medical and surgical military academy in that city. In 1871 he was chosen professor of botany at Graz, a position which he occupied until the close of his life. He was distinguished for his researches on the Tertiary floras of various parts of Europe, and on the fossil floras of Australia and New Zealand. He died at Graz.
Publications
- Die Farnkruter der Jetztwelt zur Untersuchung and Bestimmung der in den Formationen der Erdrinde eingeschiossenen Uberreste von vorweltlichen Arten dieser Ordnung nach dem Flchen-Skelet bearbeitet (1865)
- Physiographie der MedicinalPflanzen (1862)
- A Monograph of the British Eocene Flora (with J. Starkie Gardner), Palaeontograph. Soc. vol. i. (Filices, 1879 1882)
Notes
- Note regarding personal names: Freiherr is a title, usually translated Baron, not a first or middle name.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopędia Britannica.
Categories: 1911 Britannica | 1826 births | 1897 deaths | Austrian botanists | Austrian geologists | Austrian nobility | Botanists active in Australia | Botanists active in New Zealand | Algologists | Bryologists | Pteridologists | Botanists with author abbreviations | Mycologists | Paleobotanists
