Alexander Bunge

Alexander Bunge

Alexander Bunge. Lithograph by Eduard Hau
Born 6 October 1803
Kiev
Died 18 July 1890
Citizenship Russian
Nationality Russian German
Fields Botany
Institutions University of Dorpat

Alexander Georg von Bunge (Russian: Aleksandr Andreevich von Bunge, Алекса́ндр Андре́евич Бу́нге; 6 October [O.S. 24 September] 1803 – 18 July [O.S. 6 July] 1890) was a Russian German botanist. He is best remembered for scientific expeditions into Asia and especially Siberia.

Biography

Bunge was born as son of a family that belonged to the German minority in Tsarist Russia. His father Andreas Theodor was the son of Georg Friedrich Bunge, a pharmacist who had emigrated from East Prussia to Russia in the 18th century. He studied medicine at the University of Dorpat, later serving as a professor of botany in Kazan. In 1835, he returned to Dorpat, where he taught classes in botany until 1867. Here, he kept in contact with Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal, a botanist at the University of Halle, through correspondence, via articles published in the journal "Linnaea" and through the exchange of herbarium specimens.[1] He remained in Dorpat until 1881, spending his later years there conducting investigations of Estonian flora.[2]

In 1826 with Carl Friedrich von Ledebour and Carl Anton von Meyer, he embarked on an important scientific expedition to the Kirghiz Steppe and Altai Mountains.[3][4] In 1830-31, he traveled to Beijing by way of Siberia, through which he conducted extensive research of Mongolian flora.[1] Following his investigations in China, he returned to the Altai Mountains, where he conducted studies of the eastern part of the region (1832). In 1857-58 he took part in a scientific expedition to Khorasan and Afghanistan.[4]

He was the father of physiologist Gustav von Bunge (1844-1920) [1] and of Alexander von Bunge (1851–1930), an explorer and zoologist.[5] His older brother, Friedrich Georg von Bunge (1802-1897), was a legal historian.

Commemoration

Taxa
Places

Bunge Land in the New Siberian Islands and a crater on Mars were named after him.

Selected writings

See also

References

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  1. 1 2 3 Alexander von Bunge (1803-1890), a prominent researcher of Mongolian flora Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg | Schlechtendalia P-ISSN 1436-2317 E-ISSN 2195-9889
  2. ↑ JN Nutrition Biography of Gustav B. von Bunge
  3. 1 2 CRC world dictionary of plant names. 1. A - C by Umberto Quattrocchi
  4. 1 2 3 JSTOR Global Plants Bunge, Alexander Andrejewitsch (Aleksandr Andreevic (Aleksandrovic) von (1803-1890)
  5. ↑ Encyclopedia of the Arctic by Mark Nuttall
  6. ↑ Encyclopedia of Stanford Trees, Shrubs, and Vines PINACEAE
  7. ↑ Manchurian Catalpa Catalpa bungei by Richard T. Olsen and Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr.
  8. ↑ Biodiversity Heritage Library (bibliography)
  9. ↑ "Author Query for 'Bunge'". International Plant Names Index.
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