M
MAASS (Maaß), Gustav 1830 - 1901
Society secretary (”Societäts-Sekretär”) in Altenhausen near Erxleben.
Biography: ASCH. & GR. 6 (1): 133. 1901.
Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenburg 43: LXXXIV. 1902 (Obituary).
GOET: "Flora von Magdeburg. Alvenslebenscher Höhenzug" ca. 1869 - 75. (Hb. Pae., Roth).
MACKENZIE, Charles Kenneth 1788-1862
died: New York
1826 / 27 as english general consul in Haiti.
Biography: Symb. Ant. 3: 80. 1902.
DESMOND 1977.
GOET: Haiti (Hb. Gris.).
MACNAB, Gilbert 1815 - 1859
born: Edinburgh died: St. Ann's, Jamaica
Doctor and botanist. Lived in Jamaica from 1838 onwards.
Biography: Symb. Ant. 3: 80. 1902.
DESMOND 1977.
GOET: Jamaica (Hb. Gris.).
MAC OWEN, Peter 1830 - 1909
born: Hulls, Yorks died: Uitenhage, South Africa.
Studied chemistry at London university. Emigrated to South Africa due to poor health and became principal of a college in Grahamstown. Founded a South African Botanical Exchange Society. Science master in Gill College, Somerset East. Director of the botanical gardens in Cape Town from 1881 to 1891. Government botanist 1892 - 1905.
Biography: Kew. Bull. 1910: 84 - 90. 1910.
DESMOND 1977.
GUNN & CODD 1981: 240-242.
Herbarium: GRA
GOET: Bryophytes from Cape land, 50 nr. in RABENHORST, Bryotheca.
MACRAE, James - 1830
died: in Ceylon
Gardener and plant collector. Ca. 1823 at the botanical gardens in St. Vincent. Collected in Hawaii and the Galapagos islands, in Chile and Brazil. 1827 - 30; superintendent of the botanical gardens in Ceylon.
Biography: Symb. Ant. 3: 80. 1902.
Fl. Brasil. 1 (1): 49 - 50. 1906.
DESMOND 1977.
Herbarium: CGE
GOET: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Ins. Sta. Catharina (Hb. Gris.).
MAGNUS, Paul Wilhelm 1844 - 1914
born and died in Berlin.
Botanist. 1875; private lecturer. 1880; prof. at the University of Berlin. Mycologist.
Biography: Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 32: (32) - (63). 1915.
FRAHM & EGGERS 2001: 303-304.
Herbarium: HBG
GOET: NE Germany (a few specimens in Hb. Pae.).
MAIDEN, Joseph Henri 1859 - 1925
born: St. John's Wood, London died: Turramurra, Sydney
Botanist. Emigrated to Australia in 1880. 1881 - 1896; curator of the technological museum in NSW. 1896; director of the Sydney botanical gardens.
Biography: J. Bot., London 64: 138 - 141. 1926.
Proceed. Linn. Soc. 138: 84 - 90. 1926.
Herbarium: NWS
GOET: Australia: New South Wales, ca. 1896 / 98 (Hb. Vo.).
MAINITZ
As forest warden at the institute for forestry in Hann. Münden (Waldbau - Grundlagen). 1940; killed in action.
GOET: Riesengebirge (Hb. Inst. Waldbau).
MANDON, Gilbert 1799 - 1866
born: Dept. Puy - de - Dôme died: Poitiers
Initially undertook a theological training before taking up posts as a private tutor and private secretary. Botanist. 1856 - 61; employee at an industrial firm in Bolivia. Later took up residence in Poitiers. Collected specimens from several areas including Bolivia and Madeira.
Biography: Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 14: 10 - 12. 1867.
Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 19: 365 - 366. 1975.
Herbarium: B (†)
GOET: Bolivia, "Pl. Andium Boliviensium" 1858 - 61 (Hb. Gris.).
Madeira, "Pl. Maderenses" 1865 / 66 (Hb. Gris.).
Madeira: Bryophytes (acc. 1868).
MANISSADJIAN, A.
Armenian plant collector in Turkey.
GOET: A few specimens from Turkey 1887 - 96, partly as "Plantae orientales" (Hb. Vo.).
MANN, Gustav 1836 - 1916
born: Hanover died: Munich
German gardener and plant collector. In Kew from 1859, collected specimens from west Africa and India (Indian Forest Service 1863 - 91).
Biography: Kew Bull. 1907: 247 - 248; 1916: 237
HEPPER & NEATE 1971.
Bot. Mag. Dedicat.: 275-276. 1934.
Herbarium: K
GOET: Africa: "West Trop. Africa" 1859 - 63 (Hb. Gris. ex K),
India: A few palms in Hb. Herr.
MARCH, William Thomas ca. 1795 - ca. 1872
died: in Jamaica
Lawyer and secretary to the governor of Jamaica from 1868.
Biography: Symb. Ant. 3: 81. 1902.
DESMOND 1977.
Herbarium: K
GOET: Jamaica, a few specimens from the Bahamas (Hb. Gris.).
MARCUCCI, Emilio 1837 - 1890
born and died in Bibbiena
Italien botanist (including crytogams).
Biography: ASCH. & GR. 7: 88. 1914.
GRUMMANN 1974.
Herbarium: FI, TO
GOET: Alg. & Lich., including in Sardinia, "Unio itineraria crypt. 1866" (Hb. Solms).
MARTENS, Georg Matthias von 1788 - 1872
born: Mira near Venice died: Stuttgart
Studied law in Tübingen. Worked as lawyer (and finally as advisor to chambers) in Stuttgart. Also part time naturalist.
Biography: Bot. Zeitung. 30: 302 - 304. 1872.
Jahresh. Ver. Vaterl. Naturk. Württ. 29: 66 - 68. 1873.
ADB 20: 467 - 471. 1884.
GRUMMANN 1974.
Lebensbilder aus Schwaben u. Franken 11: 174 - 194. 1969.
Herbarium: B (†)
GOET: South Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy (Hb. Pae., Roth).
MARTIN, Claudius 1833 - 1870
born: Lyon
Biography: Ann. Soc. Bot. Lyon 32: 64, 129.
GOET: France "Pl. des environs deLyon" 1851 (Hb. Gris.).
MASSON, Rosine 1808 - 1891
born and died in Lausanne
Owner of a silk business in Lausanne (until about 1861). Botanist, collected specimens in Switzerland and in the Riviera.
Biography: Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sci. Nat. ser. 3. 28: 37 - 42. 1892.
Herbarium: LAU
GOET: Switzerland, ca. 1869 - 81 (Hb. Pae., Roth).
MATHEWS (MATTHEWS), Andrew - 1841
died: Chachapoyas (Peru)
English gardener, collected specimens in Chile and (from about 1830) in Peru.
Biography: London J. Bot. 1: 392 - 394. 1842.
PENNELL 1945.
Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 19: 367. 1975.
DESMOND 1977.
Herbarium: BM, K
GOET: Chile, Peru (acc. 1867).
MATTHES, Benno 1825 - 1911
born: Liegnitz died: Comfort, Kendall Co., Texas
Worked as doctor and collector of natural history objects (for the museum in Dresden). Moved to America in 1850 / 51 and to Texas in 1853. Later became land owner there. Zoological publications on amphibians and reptiles.
Biography: Field & Labor. 9: 37 - 44. 1941.
GOET: USA (Texas) " North Amer. Plants collected in the State of Texas" (Hb. Gris.).
- see also MATTHES, B. 1861: Reise - Bilder. Bilder aus Texas. Dresden.
MAXIMOWICZ, Carl Johann 1827 - 1891
born: Tula died: St. Petersburg
1852; curator, 1869; head botanist at the botanical gardens in St. Petersburg. Expedition to east Asia (1854 / 56 Amur area, 1859 / 64 Mandschurei, Amur area, Japan).
Biography: Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 9: (11) - (15). 1892.
Gartenflora 40: 17 - 151. 1891.
Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 41, Abh.: 313-314. 1891.
BRETSCHNEIDER 1898: 581 - 611, 1066 - 1075.
Acta Hort. Bot. Univ. Jurjev. 2: 119-126. 1901.
Herbarium: LE
GOET: Japan, 1861 - 63 ("Iter secundum", acc. 1890, ex LE).
MECHOW, Alexander von 1831 - ?
Prussian officer until 1874. Expedition in Africa (1878-81).
Biography: ESSNER 1985: 196.
Herbarium: B (†)
GOET: some specimens from Angola.
MEISNER (MEISSNER), Carl Friedrich 1800 - 1874
born: Bern died: Basel
Doctor and botanist. Worked under DE CANDOLLE in Geneve from 1825 to 1828. Prof. of physiology in Basel (1828 - 36) and then prof. of botany there.
Biography: ADB 21: 246 - 248. 1885.
Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 21: 279 - 283. 1874.
BRIQUET 1940.
Brittonia 39: 96-105. 1987.
Herbarium: NY
GOET: Polygonaceae (acc. 1834), only partly his own collections; especially
Polygonum from Himalaya leg. WALLICH, BLINKWORTH etc. Balkans
("Hämus" "Saloniki" "Carlova"), evidently not collected by MEISNER, just sent
by him by others (leg. FRIVALDSZKY ??; Hb. Gris.).
MEISSNER (Meißner), Herbert - 1972
died: Stolzenau / Weser
"Sparkasse" official (German banking organisation) in Haida (Nový Bor, Bohemia). Worker at the central branch for vegetation mapping in Stolzenau/Weser (under R. TÜXEN). Botanist.
Biography: Mitt. Flor. - Soz. Arbeitsgem. N. F. 15/16: 12 - 13. 1973.
Herbarium: GOET, NW Germany (with special consideration to specific genera).
MEYER, Carl Anton 1795 - 1855
born: Witebsk died: St. Petersburg
Botanist and explorer. Several expeditions including; 1826 - 27 with LEDEBOUR and BUNGE in Altai, 1829 - 30 in Caucasus. 1832; at the botanical gardens in St. Petersburg. (Director from 1850).
Biography: Proceed. Linn. Soc. London 2: 302 - 304. 1855.
GOCZOL 1972: 161 - 166 (bibl.).
DAB 2: 428 - 429. 1978.
Herbarium: LE
GOET: Somchetia, Dahuria, Imeretia, Songor. - Khirg., Sibiria Altaica, Sibiria orientalis,
Sibiria transbaicalica, Talüsch (Hb. Phil., some in Hb. Mey.?).
Comments: Isotypes especially pertainung to C. A. MEYER’S 1831, "Verzeichnis der
Pflanzen...Kaukasus".
MEYER, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich 1791 - 1858
born: Hanover died: Königsberg in Prussia.
Doctor and botanist. Private lecturer in Göttingen, and prof. in Königsberg from 1826. Juncaceae specialist. "Geschichte der Botanik” (History of Botany, four volumes”) 1854 - 57.
Biography: ADB 21: 565 - 569. 1885.
Neue Preuss. Prov. - B1. Andere Folge 11: 201 - 214. 1857 (Autobiogr.).
Goethe-Jahrb. 5: 134-176. 1884 (correspondence with GOETHE).
CASPARY 1912: 248 - 249.
WAGENITZ 1988: 123.
Herbarium: B (†)
GOET: Germany, especially east Prussia (acc. 1841 / 42).
MEYER, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm 1782 - 1856
born: Hanover died: Göttingen
Forester and botanist. "Physiograph des Königreichs Hanover". Published a large "Flora des Königreichs Hanover" (incomplete). Ordinary prof. of forest sciences from 1832, at the university Göttingen.
Biography: Nachr. Univ. Kgl. Ges. Wiss. 1856: 129 - 130, 282 - 283.
POGGENDORF, Biogr. - Lit. Handw. Buch 2: 136. 1863.
SELLE, G. v. in: Die Georg - August - Universität zu Göttingen als
Forschungs- und Lehrstätte für Forstwirtschaft p. 19 - 30. 1939.
WAGENITZ 1988: 124.
FRAHM & EGGERS 2001: 319.
Herbarium: GOET, also bryophytes and lichens. Besides his own collections (mostly from
the principality of Hanover = Lower Saxony), also includes specimens from
numerous contemporaries and some from EHRHART's herbarium. The
herbarium was acquired in 1856 (ca. 200 fascicle) and reorganised in 1880 /81,
when a large part was thrown away.
MEYER, Gloria (married G. Verhaagen)
Studied biology and chemistry in Göttingen in order to become a teacher. Investigated the segetal flora near Göttingen and East of the Meissner. Later married in the Netherlands.
GOET: Segetal plants from the area of Göttingen and the Meissner (Hassia), 1975.
Studies published as: WAGENITZ, G. & MEYER, G.: Die Unkrautflora der
Kalkäcker bei Göttingen und im Meißnervorland und ihre Veränderung. -
Tuexenia 1: 7-23. MIEDE, C.
Pharmacist in Dielingen (Westf.) and Salzderhelden (Lower Saxony).
Herbarium: BNL
GOET: Bryophytes, mostly Hanover, Harz, ca. 1887 - 89 (ex Hb. Hild. ?).
MILDE, Carl August Julius 1824 - 1871
born: Breslau died: Meran
Head teacher (prof.) at the "Realschule" in Breslau. Worked as botanist. Especially interested in pteridophytes and bryophytes.
Biography: Hedwigia 10: 145 - 148. 1871.
Jahresber. Schles. Ges. Vaterl. Cultur 49: 100 - 129. 1872.
ADB 21: 729 - 733. 1885.
GRUMMANN 1974: 33, 112.
Herbarium: FR (Pter), U & S (Bry), B (Equisetum)
GOET: Sudeten (Gesenke), Pter (Hb. Roth) Bry: Silesia, South Tyrol (also ca. 90 Nr.
in RABENHORST, Bryoth. & Hepat.).
MÖNKEMEYER, Wilhelm 1862 - 1938
born: Stadtoldendorf died: Leipzig
Gardener (1887-89 in Göttingen, 1889 - 1928; garden inspector in Leipzig), bryologist.
Biography: Chron. Bot. 4: 261 - 262. 1938 (obituary).
WAGENITZ 1988: 125-126.
FRAHM & EGGERS 1981: 326-328.
Herbarium: HBG
GOET: Bry, Germany.
MOLENDO, Ludwig 1833 - 1902
born: Bayreuth died: Munich
Botanist (bryologist). Assistant to v. MARTIUS and NAEGELI. Newspaper editor and writer from 1866 in Bayreuth. Passau, Regensburg and Munich.
Biography: Mitt. Bayer. Bot. Ges. 1: 274 - 276. 1903.
GRUMMANN 1974.
MÄGDEFRAU 1978: 133, 145.
FRAHM & EGGERS 2001: 329-331.
Herbarium: M
GOET: Bryophytes, Alps (Hb. Solm), also (ca. 20 Nr.) in RABENHORST, Bryotheca
Europ.
MOLLER, Adolfo Frederico 1842 - 1920
born: Lisbon (?) died: Lisbon
Son of a German who had settled in Portugal. Trained as forester in Germany. Worked in the Portuguese forestry commission from 1860, and as garden inspector at the botanical gardens in Lisbon from 1874. Botanical expeditions in Portugal and to S. Tomé.
Biography: Bol. Soc. Broter. Ser. II. 1: 168 - 169. 1922.
Herbarium: COI
GOET: Portugal "Fl. Lusitanica Exsiccata" 1887 (Hb. Pae.). "Fungi Lusitanici".
MOORE, David 1807 - 1879
born: Dundee, Angus died: Glasnevin, Dublin
Botanist, curator of the botanical gardens in Glasnevin.
Biography: DESMOND 1977.
Herbarium: DBN
GOET: Bry from Ireland, ca. 30 Nr. in RABENHORST, Bryotheca & Hepaticae.
MORI, Antonio 1847 - 1902
born: Pisa died: Modena
Director of the botanical gardens in Pisa and (from 1883) Modena. Prof. of botany.
Biography: Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1902: 58 - 64. 1902.
Malpighia 20: 279 - 281. 1906.
Herbarium: MOD, PAD
GOET: Italy, near Modena (Hb. Vo.), partly in BAENITZ, Herb. Europ.
MORITZ, Johann Wilhelm Karl 1797 - 1866
born: Klein - Santersleben (Neuhaldensleben district) died: Tovar Colony, Venezuela
Explorer, collector (plants and animals). Became a private tutor having completed a theology training. Emigrated to the West Indies in 1834, and to Venezuela in 1835 where he worked as a gardener.
Biography: Symb. Ant. 3: 89. 1902.
Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 19: 371. 1975.
FRAHM & EGGERS 2001: 331-332.
Herbarium: BM
GOET: Bry, Venezuela (Hb. Solms).
MORRISON, Alexander 1849 - 1913
born: Dalmeny near Edinburgh died: Cheltenham (Melbourne)
Doctor and botanist, emigrated to Australia in 1877. 1897 - 1906; West Australian Government Botanist.
Biography: J. Nat. Hist. Sci. Soc. W. Australia 5: 108 - 109. 1914.
DESMOND 1977.
Herbarium: E
GOET: Australia: Victoria, ca. 1890 (Hb. Vo.).
MOSÉN, Carl Wilhelm Hjalmar 1841 - 1887
born: Stora Tuna, Dalarna died: Stockholm
Botanist. 1873 - 76; collected specimens with REGNELL in Brazil. Assistant at the natural history museum, Stockholm (botanical department).
Biography: Acta Hort. Berg. 3(2): 62. 1903.
Fl. Brasil. 1(1): 1906.
Herbarium: S
GOET: Pter, Brazil (ex S).
MOSER, Carl J. - ca. 1837
Pharmacist, initially in Langenau. Emigrated to the USA where he became a plant collector for the Unio itineraria. Pharmacist in Philadelphia.
Biography: BAUR 1970: 256.
GOET: USA: Pennsylvania 1832 (U. it., Hb. Gris.).
MÜLLER, Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von (Sir, Baron) 1825 - 1896
born: Rostock died: Melbourne
Studied pharmacy and botany in Kiel. Due to health problems, emigrated to Australia in 1847. Director of the botanical gardens in Melbourne from 1857 to 1873. Made significant contributions to the knowledge of Australian flora.
Biography: Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 15: (56) - (70). 1897.
ADB 52: 498 - 500. 1906.
Bot. Mag. Dedic.: 135-136. 1934.
WILLIS, M. 1949: By their fruits, a life of Ferdinand von Mueller. Sydney &
London.
DAB 2: 450 - 452. 1978.
CARR & CARR 1981
KYNASTON, E. 1981: A Man on Edge. A Life of Baron Sir Ferdinand von
Mueller. London & Ringwood.
Biogr. Lex. Schleswig-Holst. 11: 274-278. 2000.
FRAHM & EGGERS 2001: 338-340.
Herbarium: MEL
GOET: Australia (ex MEL, partly Hb. Gris.). The blue paper labels often do not show
the name of the collector. - A few specimens of Bry., Alg.
MÜLLER, Franz August ("Friedrich") 1798 - 1871
born: Lausigk in Saxony died: Schneeberg (Erzgebirge)
Pharmacist (in Schneeberg from 1831), plant collector, cryptogam researcher.
Biography: BAUR 1970: 256 - 257.
GRUMMANN 1974.
Herbarium: DR
GOET: Sardinia, 1827 (U. It.; Hb. Gris.).
MÜLLER, Heinrich Ludwig Hermann ("MÜLLER - LIPPSTADT") 1829 - 1883
born: Mühlberg in Thür. died: Sulden in Tyrol (Prad ?)
Teacher at the "Realschule" in Lippstadt. Botanist. Bryologist and later as flower ecologist (early representative of Darwinismus). Brother of Fritz MÜLLER.
Biography: Verh. Nat. Ver. Preuss. Rheinl. 40: 151 - 162. 1883.
Bot. Cbl. 17: 393 - 414. 1884.
ADB 52: 511 - 512. 1906.
Sudhoffs Arch. Gesch. Med. Naturw. 34: 261 - 334. 1941.
FRAHM & EGGERS 2001: 341-342.
Herbarium: MSTR
GOET: Bry: "Westfalens Laubmosse" 1863 ff. (whether complete? partly exists in
several herbarium; Hb. Behrens, Eib., Solm), ca. 20 Nr. from Westfalen in
RABENHORST, Bryoth.
MUNRO, William (Sir) 1818 - 1880
born: Druids Stoke, Gloucestershire died: Taunton, Somerset
Officer, collected plants in India and Barbados (1870 - 75). Grass specialist.
Biography: Symb. Ant. 3: 91. 1902.
DESMOND 1977.
Herbarium: K
GOET: Nassau, Bahamas, 1874, Barbados, Trinidad (ex Hb. K, acc. 1882).
MURBECK, Svante Samuel 1859 - 1946
born: Hardeberga near Lund died: Lund
Botanist. Private lecturer and prof. in Lund from 1902. Systematist (monographer of the genus Verbascum), as well as working on the flora of north Africa, embryology, flower morphology and the biology of dispersal mechanisms.
Biography: Bot. Notis. 1946: 543 - 556. 1946.
Svensk Bot. Tidskr. 40: 453 - 456. 1946.
Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. 68a: 187 - 188. 1955.
Herbarium: LD
GOET: Edit.: "Violae Sueciae exs." (see also NEUMANN).
MURR, Josef 1864 - 1932
born: Brixen (south Tyrol) died: Innsbruck ?
Teacher (old philology) and botanist, in Innsbruck, Hall, Marburg, Trient, Feldkirch, Innsbruck. Flora: "Neue Übersicht der Farn - und Blütenpflanzen von Vorarlberg und Liechtenstein" (1923 - 26).
Biography: Litt. Fl. Tirol. 1900.
Studi Trent. Sci. Nat. 13: 57 - 60. 1932.
Heimat, Vorarlberger Monatshefte 13: 46 - 48. 1932.
Herbarium: in several Herb.
GOET: North Tyrol (Hb. Vo.).
MURRAY, Richard Paget 1842 - 1908
born: Thorton, Isle of Man died: Shapwick, Dorset
Priest (in several parishes including Baltonsborough, Somerset and Shapwick, Dorset). Botanist (Flora and also Rubus specialist) and entomologist. Collected in the Alps, Portugal and in the Canaries as well as other areas.
Biography: J. Bot., London 47: 1 - 2. 1909.
DESMOND 1977.
Herbarium: BM
GOET: Portugal, 1888 (Hb. Vo.).