Veit Brecher Wittrock
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
- Wittrockia: Bromeliad genus circumscribed by Carl Axel Magnus Lindman in 1891.
- Wittrockiella: Algae genus circumscribed by Nordal Wille in 1909.[2]
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]
gollark: ```Prelude Unsafe.Coerce System.IO.Unsafe> potatOS ()<interactive>: internal error: stg_ap_v_ret (GHC version 8.4.4 for x86_64_unknown_linux) Please report this as a GHC bug: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug```
gollark: ```haskellimport Unsafe.Coerceimport System.IO.Unsafedata OS = CCIsBad String deriving Showdata The = The deriving Showdata Best = The OS deriving Showdata PotatOS = Is The Best OS deriving ShowpotatOS = unsafePerformIO . unsafeInterleaveIO . unsafeCoerce; potatOS :: () -> PotatOS```
gollark: What about `^`, `*`, `*`, unary `-`, `%` etc?
gollark: Ah, you want arrow operators.
gollark: So this, but without passing the result of one to the other...?
References
- Wittrock, Veit Brecher (1839-1914) JSTOR Global Plants
- BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- OCLC Classify published works
- HathiTrust Digital Library published works
- IPNI. Wittr.
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