Ferdinand von mueller biography

  • Sir Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller (), botanist, was born on 30 June in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, only surviving son of Frederick.
  • – 10 October ) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist.
  • He studied pharmacy and took his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Kiel in He came to South Australia in for health reasons.

    • •

    Baron Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller

    Sir Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller KCMG (–), botanist, trained in pharmacy and botany in his native Germany before emigrating to Adelaide in Immediately, he set about recording South Australian flora. Appointed inaugural government botanist in Melbourne in , over the next few years he collected specimens of much of Victoria’s native vegetation, spending many months in previously-unexplored alpine country. As botanist to the North Australian Exploring Expedition in , he travelled 8 km in 16 months, identifying some new species and finding them their place in the universal classification system developed by Linnaeus. In he was appointed director of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, but their progress was slow and he was replaced in By that time, he had been appointed a baron bygd the King of Württemberg; he was appointed KCMG in Seeing both the commercial potential of native forests, and the need to preserve them, in the late s he prepare

  • ferdinand von mueller biography

    • •

    botanist, was born on 30 June in Rostock, Schleswig-Holstein. He came to Melbourne in and the following year was appointed Victorian government botanist by Lieutenant-Governor La Trobe . Some of von Mueller&#;s books, such as Flora Australiensis (which appeared in seven volumes between and ), contain numerous unsigned plates which have often been assumed to be after von Mueller&#;s own drawings, but it is now virtually certain that all the illustrations in his books were the work of other hands, including Ludwig Becker , F. Schoenfeld and Richard Shepherd . Alfred Bock took photographs for him.

    There is no evidence that von Mueller ever sketched, although he took an interest in painting, sending his view of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens by Rasmiss to the Melbourne Public Library Exhibition. Primarily, however, he valued art insofar as it was an accurate record of the natural world. A great number of botanical painters and collectors throughout the Australian colonie

    •

    Ferdinand von Mueller

    German-Australian botanist (–)

    Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, KCMG (German: Müller; 30 June – 10 October ) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victoria, Australia by Governor Charles La Trobe in , and later director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne. He also founded the National Herbarium of Victoria. He named many Australian plants.

    Early life

    [edit]

    Mueller was born at Rostock, in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After the early death of his parents, Frederick and Louisa, his grandparents gave him a good education in Tönning, Schleswig. Apprenticed to a chemist at the age of 15, he passed his pharmaceutical examinations and studied botany under Professor Ernst Ferdinand Nolte (–) at Kiel University. In , he received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Kiel for a thesis on the plants of the southern regions of Sc