Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen

Template:Short description Template:Redirect Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (3 December 1760, Giessen – 30 November 1806, Darmstadt) was a German naturalist and forester. He took part in the production of Template:Lang by Johann Conrad Susemihl.<ref>Teutsche Ornithologie, oder, Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Teutschlands: in naturgetreuen Abbildungen und Beschreibungen, Google books</ref>

He received his education in Giessen, and in 1796 started work as an assessor at the forestry office in Darmstadt. In 1800, he attained the title of Kammerrat, followed by a role as counselor at the Oberforsthaus Collegium in 1804.<ref>Template:Cite ADB</ref><ref name=ME>Borkhausen | eLexikon : Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1888; Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig und Wien, 4th edition Template:In lang, 1885–1892; vol. 3, p. 221 (PDF).</ref>

As a botanist, he was the taxonomic author of Alliaceae and Asclepiadaceae as well as the circumscriber of numerous plant genera and species.<ref>List of plants described and co-described by Borkhausen, IPNI</ref>

Works

• Naturgeschichte der europäischen Schmetterlinge (Natural history of European Lepidoptera) (1788–94).
• Versuch einer Erklärung der zoologischen Terminologie (An explanation of the zoological terminology) (1790).
• Versuch einer forstbotanischen Beschreibung der in Hessen-Darmstädter Landen im Freien wachsenden Holzarten (Description of the woody plants growing in Hesse-Darmstadt) (1790).
• Tentamen dispositionis plantarum Germaniae seminiferarum secundum new fact methodum A staminum situ proportione, (1792).
• Template:Cite book*Theoretisch-praktisches Handbuch der Forstbotanik und Forsttechnologie (Manual of forest technology) (1800–1803).
• Deutsche Ornithologie oder Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands (Natural history of German birds) (1810).<ref name=ME/>

Bibliography

• Robert Zander; Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (Hrsg.): Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. 13.Auflage. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, Template:ISBN.

External links

• Botanisches Wörterbuch, at BSB