Albert Thellung

Albert Thellung (12 May 1881 – 26 June 1928) was a Swiss botanist.

Albert Thellung
Albert Thellung in 1914.
Born(1881-05-12)12 May 1881
Enge, Switzerland
Died(1928-06-26)26 June 1928
Zürich, Switzerland
Scientific career
FieldsBotany

He was a professor at the University of Zürich. The Austrian botanist Otto Stapf named the plant genus Thellungia of the grass family, Poaceae, after him, and Otto Eugen Schulz named the genus Thellungiella (family Brassicaceae) in his honor.[1]

Thellung made contributions to the third (1909–14) and fourth (1923) editions of Schinz and Keller's Flora der Schweiz.[2]

Works
  • Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa 1906
  • Die Gattung Lepidium (L.) R. Br. : eine monographische Studie 1906
  • La flore adventice de Montpellier 1912
  • Flora der Schweiz - Kritische Flora, 1914
  • Flora der Schweiz - Exkursionsflora, 1923
  • Die Entstehung der Kulturpflanzen 1930
gollark: octinion
gollark: quaternion.
gollark: You just change the number by √(√5)² per turn.
gollark: I used potatö, totally different.
gollark: That would be abuse of power, you potatö.

References
  1. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: R-Z by Umberto Quattrocchi
  2. Biodiversity Heritage Library (publications)
  3. IPNI.  Thell.


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