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词条 Franz Sieber
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Expeditions

  3. Later life and death

  4. Legacy

  5. References

  6. External sources

  7. Publications

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Franz Wilhelm Sieber (30 March 1789 – 17 December 1844[1]), was a botanist and collector who travelled to Europe, the Middle East, Southern Africa and Australia.

Early life

Franz Sieber was born in Prague on 30 March 1789.[1]

After 5 years of study at the Gymnasium, endowed with a considerable talent for the graphic arts, he studied architecture, switched to engineering and finally settled on natural history, in particular botany.

Expeditions

He made several collecting trips to Italy, Crete, Greece, Egypt and Palestine followed by a two-year-long expedition to Australia, Mauritius and South Africa, collecting not only plants, but also animals, art and ethnographic objects. He spent seven months in Sydney (then more usually called Port Jackson) from 1 June 1823 until December 1823 where he collected 645 local plant specimens.[2]

He never reached the Western hemisphere (in contradistinction to Friedrich Wilhelm Sieber, an employee of Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg), but sent several people to make collections for him, notably Franz Kohaut in the Antilles and Wenceslas Bojer on Mauritius.

Later life and death

His behavior and publications became progressively more erratic. He was constantly involved in quarrels with the authorities and rapidly became more and more deranged. Having “discovered” a cure for rabies he appeared in front of the city elders of Prague and demanded financial support. Soon thereafter he landed in the Prague insane asylum, where he spent the fourteen final years of his life, dying there at the age of fifty-five.

Legacy

He is commemorated in the genus Siebera J.Gay (Asteraceae), and many species, e.g. Acacia sieberiana, DC, Pleurothallis sieberi Luer, or Allium sieberianum Schult.f.,[3]

Crocus sieberi, Phyteuma sieberi, Luzula sieberi, Eucalyptus sieberi, Cheilanthes sieberi, Callistemon sieberi, Badula sieberi, and Hosta sieberiana, though some of these names may also have honored Friedrich Wilhelm Sieber.

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References

1. ^{{cite web|last=Ernst|first=Wunschmann|title=Sieber, Franz Wilhelm|url=http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz80185.html|work=Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie|accessdate=27 October 2011}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Sieber, Franz W. (1789 - 1844)|url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/sieber-franz.html|publisher=Australian national botanic garden|accessdate=21 April 2015}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=International plant names index|url=http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_family=&find_genus=&find_species=sieberianum&find_infrafamily=&find_infragenus=&find_infraspecies=&find_authorAbbrev=&find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includePublicationAuthors=off&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=off&find_publicationTitle=&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&back_page=plantsearch|publisher=IPNI|accessdate=21 April 2015}}

External sources

  • {{cite book|last1=Dietrich|first1=Friedrich Carl|title=Franz Wilhelm Sieber, ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Botanik vor sechzig Jahren|date=1881|location=Berlin}}

Publications

  • Books by and about Sieber on WorldCat
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6 : 1789 births|1844 deaths|Botanists active in Australia|Botanical collectors active in Australia|Austrian botanists|Czech botanists

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