Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen

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Name Moritz Borkhausen		Role Author

Died November 30, 1806, Darmstadt, Germany

Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (3 December 1760, Giessen – 30 November 1806, Darmstadt) was a German naturalist and forester. He took part in the production of "Teutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen" by Johann Conrad Susemihl.

He received his education in Giessen, and in 1796 started work as an assessor at the forestry office in Darmstadt. In 1800 he attained the title of Kammerrat, followed by a role as counselor at the Oberforsthaus Collegium in 1804.

As a botanist, he was the taxonomic author of Alliaceae and Asclepiadaceae as well as the circumscriber of numerous plant genera and species.

Works

Naturgeschichte der europäischen Schmetterlinge (Natural history of European Lepidoptera) (1788–94).

Versuch einer Erklärung der zoologischen Terminologie (An explanation of the zoological terminology) (1790).

Versuch einer forstbotanischen Beschreibung der in Hessen - Darmstädter Landen im Freien wachsenden Holzarten (Description of the woody plants growing in Hesse-Darmstadt) (1790).

Tentamen dispositionis plantarum Germaniae seminiferarum secundum new fact methodum A staminum situ proportione, (1792).

Borkhausen, Moritz Balthasar (1797). Botanisches Wörterbuch oder Versuch einer Erklärung der vornehmsten Begriffe und Kunstwörter in der Botanik, 2 Volumes. Giessen: Georg Friedrich Heyer. Retrieved 3 February 2015. (Botanical dictionary)

Theoretisch - praktisches Handbuch der Forstbotanik und Forsttechnologie (Manual of forest technology) (1800-1803).

Deutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands (Natural history of German birds) (1810).

References

Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen Wikipedia

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