17 Facts About Ignatz Urban

Ignatz Urban is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Berlin Botanical Garden.

Ignatz Urban pursued further study at the University of Bonn and later at the University of Berlin where he gained a doctorate in 1873.

Ignatz Urban worked as Eichler's assistant on the Flora Brasiliensis, later succeeding him as editor.

In 1884 Ignatz Urban began working with Leopold Krug on his Puerto Rican collections, a collaboration would later produce the nine-volume Symbolae Antillanae, one of his most important contributions, and his 30-part Sertum Antillanum.

Ignatz Urban's herbarium, estimated to include 80,000 or more sheets, was destroyed when the Berlin Herbarium was bombed in 1943, during the Second World War.

Ignatz Urban was born in Warburg, Province of Westphalia, in the Kingdom of Prussia in 1848 as the son of a prosperous brewer.

Ignatz Urban was educated at the local Gymnasium, and later in Paderborn before proceeding to the University of Bonn and then the University of Berlin.

Ignatz Urban served in the military between 1869 and 1871 before returning to his studies.

Ignatz Urban received his doctorate in 1873 and took up a teaching position in Lichterfelde.

Ignatz Urban worked as Eichler's assistant in the production of the Flora Brasiliensis, which had been initiated by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius and Stephan Endlicher in 1840.

Ignatz Urban later took over as editor after Eichler's death, and saw the work through to its completion in 1906.

In 1884 Ignatz Urban began working with Leopold Krug on his plant collections.

Ignatz Urban exchanged material extensively with other botanists and distributed fragments of his type collections so widely.

In 1886 Ignatz Urban published his first paper primarily dedicated to Caribbean plants.

Ignatz Urban then began work on Sertum Antillanum which eventually became a 30-part series, completed in 1930.

Ignatz Urban continued working until a few weeks before his death in 1931, on the morning of his eighty-third birthday.

Ignatz Urban has been honoured in the naming of several plant taxa including;.