Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel | |
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| Born | 24 October 1811 |
| Died | 23 January 1871 (aged 59) |
| Nationality | Dutch |
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| Fields | Botany |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Miq. |
Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (24 October 1811, Neuenhaus – 23 January 1871, Utrecht) was a Dutch botanist, whose main focus of study was on the flora of the Dutch East Indies.
Life
Miquel studied medicine at the University of Groningen, where, in 1833, he recieved his doctorate. After starting work as a doctor at the Buitengasthuis Hospital in Amsterdam, in 1835, he taught medicine at the clinical school in Rotterdam. He was professor of botany at the University of Amsterdam (1846–1859) and Utrecht University (1859–1871). He directed the Rijksherbarium (National Herbarium) at Leiden from 1862. In 1866, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Although he never travelled far, he accumulated a large collection of flora of Australia and the Dutch East Indies through an extensive network of correspondents. He described many important families of Australian and Indonesian plants, including Casuarinaceae, Myrtaceae, Piperaceae and Polygonaceae. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Miq. when citing a botanical name.[1]
Main works
- Genera Cactearum, Rotterdam, 1839
- Monographia Cycadearum, Utrecht, 1842
- Systema Piperacearum, Rotterdam,1843-1844
- Illustrationes Piperacearum, Bonn, 1847
- Cycadeae quaedam Americanae, partim novae. Amsterdam, 1851.
- Flora Indiae batavae, Amsterdam, 1855-1859
- Leerboek der Artensij-Gewassen, Utrecht, 1859
- De Palmis Archipelagi Indici observationes novae. Amsterdam, 1868.
References
- ^ Brummitt, R. K. (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ International Plant Names Index. Miq.
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