Veit Brecher Wittrock

Veit Brecher Wittrock (5 May 1839 at district of Dalsland – 1 September 1914 in Stockholm) was a Swedish botanist known for his work in the field of phycology and for his research of the genus Viola.^[1]

Biography

From 1857 to 1865 he studied at the University of Uppsala, then spent the next thirteen years as a gymnasium teacher in Uppsala. In 1878 he became an associate professor at the University of Uppsala. From 1879 to 1904 he served as a professor and curator of the botanical collections at the Naturhistoriska riksmuseet in Stockholm. In Stockholm, he was also a professor and director of the Bergianska trädgården (1879–1914).^[2]

Botanical eponymy

• Wittrockia: Bromeliad genus circumscribed by Carl Axel Magnus Lindman in 1891.
• Wittrockiella: Algae genus circumscribed by Nordal Wille in 1909.^[2]

Selected works

• Försök till en monographi öfver algslägtet Monostroma, 1866.
• Algologiska studier. I och II, 1867.
• Dispositio oedogoniacearum suecicarum, 1870.
• Prodromus monographiae oedogoniearum, 1874.
• "On the development and systematic arrangement of the Pithophoraceæ, a new order of algae", 1877.
• Skandinaviens gymnospermer, 1887.
• Viola studier (1895–1897; 2 volumes).
• Botanisk-historiska fragment, 1906.
• (As editor): Acta horti Bergiani. Meddelanden från Kungl. Svenska vetenskaps-akademiens Trädgård Bergielund.^[3][4]

References