1. Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus Endlicher, known as Endlicher Istvan Laszlo, was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist.
13 Facts About Stephan Endlicher
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Stephan Endlicher was a director of the Botanical Garden of Vienna.
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In 1836, Endlicher was appointed keeper of the court cabinet of natural history, and in 1840 he became professor at the University of Vienna and director of its Botanical Garden.
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Stephan Endlicher wrote a comprehensive description of the plant kingdom according to a natural system, at the time its most comprehensive description.
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Stephan Endlicher was fundamental in establishing the Imperial Academy of Science, but when contrary to his expectations the Baron Joseph Hammer von Purgstall was elected its president in his stead, he resigned.
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Stephan Endlicher presented his library and herbaria to the state, and passed several hours every week for 10 years in the society of the Emperor Ferdinand, but he received no other reward than the title of councillor.
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Stephan Endlicher wrote several works in conjunction with other scholars, and many of his minor writings are scattered among the periodicals of his time, especially in the Annalen des Wiener Museums.
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Stephan Endlicher established the botanical journal Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte.
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Stephan Endlicher began the work Flora Brasiliensis with Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
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Stephan Endlicher published early works on the flora of Australia, including the plants collected by Carl von Hugel and Ferdinand Bauer.
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Stephan Endlicher described many new plant genera, including the genus Sequoia, and its only extant species Sequoia sempervirens.
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John Davis credited Stephan Endlicher with naming the new species of Sierra redwood Sequoyah gigantea in 1847, the present day Sequoiadendron giganteum, to honor Sequoyah's invention of the Cherokee syllabary.
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Recent scholarship supports this hypothesis; Stephan Endlicher appears to have combined the Latin sequi with his admiration of Sequoyah and coined "Sequoia" because the number of seeds per cone in the newly classified genus fell in mathematical sequence with the other four genera in the suborder.