Constantin Freiherr von Ettingshausen (or Baron Constantin von Ettingshausen) (16 June 1826 in

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– 1 February 1897 in

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) was an

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known for his paleobotanical studies of flora from the Tertiary era. He was the son of

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Andreas von Ettingshausen.

Biography

In 1848 he graduated as a doctor of medicine in

, and became in 1854 a professor of botany and

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at the medical and surgical military academy in that city. In 1871 he was chosen professor of botany at

, a position which he maintained until the close of his life. From 1876 he made repeated visits to

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, where he arranged collections at the

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. He was distinguished for his researches on the

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s of various parts of

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, and on the

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floras of

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and

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. The extinct genus ''Ettingshausenia'' (family

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) was named in his honor by August Wilhelm Stiehler (1857).

Publications

* ''Physiotypia plantarum austriacarum'' (with Alois Pokorny), 1856 –. * ''Physiographie der Medicinal Pflanzen'' (1862). * ''Die Farnkruter der Jetztwelt zur Untersuchung and Bestimmung der in den Formationen der Erdrinde eingeschiossenen Uberreste von vorweltlichen Arten dieser Ordnung nach dem Flächen-Skelet bearbeitet'' (1865). * ''A Monograph of the British Eocene Flora'' (with John Starkie Gardner), vol. 1. Filices, 1879-82. -- vol. 2. Gymnospermæ, by J. Gardner. 1883-86. * ''Contributions to the Tertiary flora of Australia'' (translated by Arvid Neilson, 1888). * ''Contributions to the knowledge of the fossil flora of New Zealand'' (translated by C. Juhl, 1890).Most widely held works by Constantin Ettingshausen
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ettingshausen, Constantin von Paleobotanists 1826 births 1897 deaths Mycologists Bryologists Phycologists Pteridologists Botanists active in Australia Botanists active in New Zealand Botanists with author abbreviations Botanists from Austria-Hungary Geologists from Austria-Hungary Paleontologists from Austria-Hungary Austrian barons Scientists from Vienna