Friedrich Karl Max Vierhapper

Friedrich Karl Max Vierhapper (7 March 1876 in Weidenau – 11 July 1932) was an Austrian plant collector, botanist and professor of botany at the University of Vienna. He was the son of amateur botanist Friedrich Vierhapper (1844–1903), botanical abbreviation- "F.Vierh.".

Background

From 1894 to 1899, he studied natural sciences at the University of Vienna, where he later worked as an assistant to Richard Wettstein at the botanical institute. From 1911 to 1932 he was an honorary professor at the school of veterinary medicine in Vienna. In the meantime, from 1918 he was employed as an associate professor of systematic botany at the University of Vienna.[1][2]

He specialized in research of botanical species native to Austria, Switzerland and Greece. During his career, he collaborated with botanist August von Hayek (1871-1928) on plant-collecting excursions.[3] He processed and described flora collected from an expedition by the Vienna Academy of Sciences to southern Arabia and Socotra (1898–99).[4]

He was the binomial author of numerous species from the genus Erigeron.[5] The plant genus Vierhapperia was named after him by botanist Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti (1882-1940).[6]

Published works

In 1929 he published the second edition of Anton Kerner von Marilaun's Das Pflanzenleben der Donauländer (The plant life of Danube countries).[7]

  • Bau und Leben der Pflanzen : in zwölf gemeinverständliche Vorträge. Wien : C. Konegen, 1905. (with Karl Linsbauer) - Construction and biology of plants; in twelve easy-to-understand presentations.[8]
  • Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flora Südarabiens und der Inseln Socotra, Semha und Abd al Kuri, 1907 - Contributions to the knowledge of south Arabian flora as well as the Islands of Socotra, Semha and Abd al Kuri
  • Entwurf eines neuen Systemes der Coniferen, 1910 - Outline of a new system for conifers.
  • Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flora Kretas, 1917 - Contributions to the knowledge of Cretan flora.
  • Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Flora Griechenlands, 1918 - Contributions to the knowledge of Greek flora.
  • Vegetation und Flora des Lungau (Salzburg), 1935 - Vegetation and flora of Lungau (Salzburg).[9]
gollark: In a market, if people don't want kale that much, the kale company will probably not have much money and will not be able to buy all the available fertilizer.
gollark: You can just hand out what some random people think is absolutely *needed* first, then stick the rest of everything up for public use, but that won't work either! Someone has to decide on the "needed", so you get into a planned-economy sort of situation, and otherwise... what happens when, say, the community kale farm decides they want all the remaining fertilizer, even when people don't want *that* much kale?
gollark: Planned economies, or effectively-planned-by-lots-of-voting economies, will have to implement this themselves by having everyone somehow decide where all the hundred million things need to go - and that's not even factoring in the different ways to make each thing, or the issues of logistics.
gollark: Market systems can make this work pretty well - you can sell things and use them to buy other things, and ultimately it's driven by what consumers are interested in buying.
gollark: Consider: in our modern economy, there are probably around (order of magnitude) a hundred million different sorts of thing people or organizations might need.

References

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  1. UZH - Zürich Herbaria - Collector Details (short biography)
  2. Biodiversity Heritage Library Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  3. JSTOR Plant Science
  4. Au Cactus Francophone : Fiche de : Vierhapper, Friedrich Karl Max
  5. IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Vierhapper.
  6. This statement is based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.
  7. Google Books A Changing World: Challenges for Landscape Research, edited by Felix Kienast, Otto Wildi
  8. OCLC WorldCat Bau und Leben der Pflanzen
  9. Google Books (publications)
  10. IPNI.  Vierh.
  11. Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.
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