Friedrich Wilhelm Noë

Friedrich Wilhelm Noë (1798, Berlin – 1858, Constantinople) was a German-born, Austrian pharmacist and botanist.

Prior to 1844, he worked as a pharmacist in Fiume, afterwards moving to Constantinople, where he taught classes in botany at the Êcole Impériale de Médicine de Galata Serai and served as director of its botanical garden. He collected plants in the Balkans, on islands within the Gulf of Quarnero, in Asia Minor and in Mesopotamia.[1][2] On a journey to Mount Olympus, he reportedly discovered gold.[3]

The plant genus Noaea (family Amaranthaceae) is named in his honor,[4] as are taxa with the specific epithets of noeana and noeanus;[5] examples being Medicago noeana and Aster noeanus.

References

  1. ↑ Herbaria United Friedrich Wilhelm Noé
  2. ↑ Index Collectorum Herbarii Senckenbergiani
  3. ↑ JSTOR Global Plants biography
  4. ↑ CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms by Umberto Quattrocchi
  5. ↑ Etymological Dictionary of Grasses by Harold T. Clifford, Peter D. Bostock
  6. ↑ "Author Query for 'Noë'". International Plant Names Index.