T

TAUSCHER, Gyula (J. A.) 1832 - 1882
born and died in Ercsi, Hungary
Doctor in Ercsi. Botanist.

Biography: ASCH. & GR. 5 (1): 921. 1919.
GOET: Hungary (Hb. Pae., Vo., also in Fl. Exs. Austro - Hung. and BAENITZ, Hb.
Europ.).


TEPPER, Johann Gottlieb Otto 1841 - 1923
born: Neutomischel, Posen province. died: Adelaide
In Australia from 1847 onwards. Entomologist at the museum in Adelaide from 1897 - 1910.

Biography: GRUMMANN 1974.
DESMOND 1977.
GOET: Australia (including "Charakterpflanzen vom Kangaroo - Island", acc. 1888).


THIELENS, Armand 1833 – 1878
born: Jodoigne (Belgium) died: Paris
Vinegar manufacturer in Tirlemont. Naturalist, collected plants, animals and fossils.

Biography: Biogr. Nat. Belg. 24: 818 - 819. 1926 - 29.
GOET: (Edit., with DEVOS) "Kickxia Belgica", Cent. I - IV. 1865 - 1868. (partly
duplicated, Hb. Gris., Herr.).


THOMAS, Abraham Louis Emmanuel 1788 - 1859
born: Fenalet near Bex died: Dévens near Bex (Ct. Vaud)
Forester and plant collector. Owned a nursery for alpine plants.

Biography: Candollea 33: 427 - 428. 1978.
GOET: Switzerland, Italy. Alps (Hb. Bg., Gris.).

Comments: Where there is no forename, the identity is not always clear since there was
more than one collector in the family.


THOMSON, Thomas 1817 - 1878
born: Glasgow died: London
Doctor and botanist. Expeditions in India and Tibet (accompanied J. D. HOOKER for some of the time). Superintendent of the botanical gardens in Calcutta from 1854 - 61.

Biography: Proceed. R. Geogr. Soc. 22: 309 - 315. 1878.
Dict. Nat. Biogr. 56: 272 - 273. 1898.
Bot. Mag. Dedic.: 111-112. 1934.
I. H. BURKILL 1965: 82 ff.
DESMOND 1977.
Herbarium: K, BM
GOET: India - Tiber: "Ind. Bor. Occ." "Himal. Bor. Occ...", "Plan. Ganget. Inf.",
"Maisor & Carnatics", "Tibet Occid.", "Kasmir" (partly Hb. Gris.).


THÜMEN, Felix Karl Albert Ernst Joachim, Baron von Gräfendorf 1839 - 1892
born: Dresden died: Schönau near Teplitz (Bohemia)
Mycologist and phytopathologist. Agriculture training, landowner for a short while. Private scholar. Civil servant at the chemical physiological research station for wine and fruit growing in Klosterneuburg (Lower Austria).

Biography: Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 11: (28) - (30). 1893.
Hedwigia 32: 247 - 257. 1893.
ADB 54: 702 - 703. 1908.
GRUMMANN 1974.
DÖRFELT & HEKLAU 1998: 431.
GOET: "Herbarium mycologicum oeconomicum". Dresden and Bayreuth. 1873 - 80.
Fasc. I - XV (750 Nr.).


THUNBERG, Carl Peter 1743 - 1828
born: Jönköping died: Thunaberg near Uppsala
Swedish naturalist and explorer. Important pupil of and successor to LINNÉ. Prof. of botany in Uppsala from 1781. Expeditions to several areas including in South Africa, Japan, Java and Ceylon (1770 - 1778).

Biography: JUEL, H.O.: Plantae Thunbergianae. Uppsala & Leipzig 1918.
Svenska Linné - Sällsk. Årsskr. 27: 29 - 64. 1944.
N. SVEDELIUS 1952 in Swedish Men of Science, ed. S. LINDROTH p.
151 - 159. Stockholm.
F. A. STAFLAU 1971: Linnaeus and the Linnaeans, p. 152 - 155.
Dict. Sci. Biogr. 13: 391 - 393. 1976.
GUNN & CODD 1981: 347-350.
Herbarium: UPS
GOET: A few specimens from South Africa (Hb. Ehrh.).


THUST

GOET: Silesia, Saxony, Switzerland (1853) (Hb. Pae.).


THWAITES, George Henry Kendrik 1812 - 1882
born: Bristol died: Kandy, Ceylon
Botanist. Director of the botanical gardens in Peradeniya, Ceylon from 1849 - 79. Introduced Cinchona culture to Ceylon.

Biography: J. Bot., London 20: 351 - 352. 1882.
Proceed. Linn. Soc. London 1882 / 83: 43 - 47.
Bot. Mag. Dedic.: 131-132. 1934.
BURKILL 1965: 97 - 99.
DESMOND 1977.
Herbarium: PDA, K
GOET: Ceylon (ca. 1700 Nr., acc. 1863).

Comments: The "C.P." lettering system (= Ceylon Plants) is not a real collection ordering system. The material was possibly collected from different areas and not always collected by THWAITES (Dr. Cramer, Peradeniya, oral communication).


TINEO, Vincenzo 1791 - 1856
born and died in Palermo
Prof. of the botany and director of the botanical gardens in Palermo.

Biography: SACCARDO 1895.
Herbarium: PAL
GOET: Italy: Sicily (Hb. Gris., Phil.).


TODARO, Agostino 1818 - 1892
born and died in Palermo
Prof. of botany and director of the botanical gardens in Palermo.

Biography: Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenburg 34: X - XI. 1893.
Acta Hort. Berg. 3(2): 166. 1903.
Herbarium: PAL
GOET: Italy: Palermo (Hb. Gris.).


TOEPFFER, Adolph 1853 - 1931
born: Brandenburg a. Havel died: Munich
Mill owner in Brandenburg, chemist in Schwerin. Retired in Munich. Botanist (Salix specialist).

Biography: Mitt. Bayer. Bot. Ges. 4: 203 - 204. 1932.
Herbarium: M
GOET: Salix, "Salicetum exsiccatum", ca. 450 Nr. (acc. 1907 - 16).


TOMMASINI, Muzio Giuseppe Spirito de (Mutius Joseph Spiritus, Ritter von)
1794 - 1879
born and died in Triest
Studied medicine, botany and law. Several different positions in the Dalmatia adminsitrative. In Triest from 1827. 1839, town mayor and later Podestà of Triest. Research interests: flora of Triest and Istria.

Biography: Bot. Zeitung. 38: 79 - 80. 1880.
Österr. Bot. Z. 16: 1 - 12. 1866; 30: 73 - 77. 1880.
WURZBACH, Biogr. Lex. 46: 107 - 109. 1882.
Herbarium: TSM
GOET: Triest, Istria etc. "Ex herbario Florae illyrico - litoralis" (Hb. Gris.), also in F.
SCHULTZ, Hb. Norm.


TRABUT, Louis Charles 1853 - 1929
born: Chaméry / Savoie died: Algiers
Doctor and botanist (flora, plant introduction and cultivation). Prof. of botany at the medical college in Algiers. Director of a research station in Rouïba (1894), later in Maison Carrée (Algiers).

Biography: ASCH. & GR. 3: 513 - 514. 1906.
J. Hered. 13: 153 - 160. 1922.
Bull. Misc. Inf. (Kew Bull.) 1929: 208. 1929.
GOET: Algeria (with BATTANDIER, refer also to the entry under the same name).


TRAUNFELLNER, Aloys 1782 - 1840
born: Vienna died: Klagenfurt
Pharmacist, finally in Klagenfurt. Botanist (flora). Owned a large herbarium, mineral and coin collection.

Biography: Flora 24, I: 57 - 62. 1841.
Herbarium: KL
GOET: Austria, Alps, Dalmatia.


TRAUTMANN, Werner 1924 - 1989
born: Hagen/Westphalia
Botanist (vegetation science). Studied in Göttingen (F. FIRBAS's pupil). Scientific co-worker at the central branch for vegetation mapping in Stolzenau. Head of the county research institute for conservation and geoecology in Bonn - Bad Godesberg 1978 to 1983.

Biography: KÜRSCHNER ed. 13. 1980.
Natur & Landschaft 59: 276-277. 1984.
Herbarium: GOET, BNL
GOET: From around Göttingen, West Alps, 1952.


TREFFER, Georg 1847 - 1902
born and died in Luttach, Tauferertal (south Tyrol)
Mountain guide and plant collector.

Biography: Österr. Bot. Z. 53: 336 - 340. 1903.
GOET: South Tyrol, ca. 1879 - 86 (Hb. Pae., Vo.).


TREMOLS y BORRELL, Federico 1831 - 1900
born: Cadaqués died: Barcelona
Botanist and pharmaceutical chemist. Prof. in Granada and Barcelona.

Biography: Encicl. Univ. Ill. 64: 71 - 72. 1928.
GOET: Spain (Eastern Pyrenees, Barcelona), 1877 - 85 (Hb. Roth).


TÜRCKHEIM, Hans Freiherr von 1853 - 1920
born and died: Karlsruhe
Studied law. Emigrated to Guatemala where he owned a coffee plantation.

Biography: Gartenflora 70: 19 - 22. 1921.
Herbarium: B (†)
GOET: Guatemala "Flora Guatemalensis. Edit. C. KECK", 1878 - 80.


TURCZANINOW, Nikolai Stepanowitsch (Nicolaus von) 1796 - 1864
born: Nikitovka died: Charkow
Botanist. Initially worked in the Ministry of finance and justice. Emigrated to Irkutsk in 1828, from where he travelled around the Baikal - Amur area until 1834. Later worked in the Ministry of Justice in Krasnojarsk and finally in Charkow.

Biography: RATZEBURG 1872: 495 - 496.
Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 9: 454 - 455. 1888. (Itin.).
BRETSCHNEIDER 1898: 352 - 354.
Trudy Bot. Muz. Imp. Akad. Nauk (= Trav. Mus. Bot. Acad. Sci. St.
Pétersb. 4: 125 - 127. 1908. (Itin.).
Bot. Žurn. 38: 626 - 629. 1953. 49: 752 - 766. 1964.
Musées Genève 79: 2 - 8. 1967.
Herbarium: CW
GOET: "Sibiria baicalensis orientalis", "Davuria", "Mongolia chinensis" (ex CW, acc. 1863).