peoplepill id: alexander-zippelius
AZ
3 views today
4 views this week
The basics
Quick Facts
Intro
Dutch botanist
A.K.A.
Zipp.
Places
Work field
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Würzburg, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
Place of death
Timor
Age
32 years
The details (from wikipedia)
Biography
Alexander Zippelius (1797, Würzburg – 31 December 1828, Kupang) was a Dutch horticulturalist and botanical collector in the East Indies.
From 1823 he worked as an assistant curator in the botanical gardens at Buitenzorg, and in 1827 he joined the Natuurkundige Commissie (Commission for Natural Sciences). He collected plants in the Moluccas, southwestern New Guinea and Timor. He died on Timor in 1828.
The botanical genus Zippelia (family Piperaceae) was named in his honor by Carl Ludwig Blume. Also, he is associated with plants having the specific names of zippeliana, zippelii, and zippelianum.
The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article.
The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Alexander Zippelius is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
Alexander Zippelius