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Pál Kitaibel (3 February 1757 – 13 December 1817) was a Hungarian botanist and chemist.
He was born at Nagymarton (today Mattersburg, Austria) and studied botany and chemistry at the University of Buda. In 1794 he became Professor and taught these subjects at Pest. As well as studying the flora and hydrography of Hungary, in 1789 he discovered the element
Biography in Hungarian
Plants named for Kitaibel at IPNI
Books by and about Paul Kitaibel on Worldcat.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kitaibel, Pal 19th-century Hungarian botanists Hungarian chemists 18th-century Hungarian botanists People from Mattersburg District 1757 births 1817 deaths
Pál Kitaibel (3 February 1757 – 13 December 1817) was a Hungarian botanist and chemist.
He was born at Nagymarton (today Mattersburg, Austria) and studied botany and chemistry at the University of Buda. In 1794 he became Professor and taught these subjects at Pest. As well as studying the flora and hydrography of Hungary, in 1789 he discovered the element tellurium
Tellurium is a chemical element with the symbol Te and atomic number 52. It is a brittle, mildly toxic, rare, silver-white metalloid. Tellurium is chemically related to selenium and sulfur, all three of which are chalcogens. It is occasionall ...
, but later gave the credit to Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein
Franz-Joseph Müller, Freiherr von Reichenstein or Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein (1 July 1740 or 4 October 1742 – 12 October 1825 or 1826) was an Austrian mineralogist and mining engineer. Müller held several positions in the Habsburg m ...
(1740–1825) who had actually discovered it in 1782.
Together with Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein (1759–1823), he wrote ''Descriptiones et icones plantarum rariorum Hungariae'' ("Descriptions and pictures of the rare plants of Hungary"; M. A. Schmidt, Vienna, three volumes, 1802–1812). In this work he made the first description of ''Nymphaea lotus'' f. ''thermalis''.
He died in 1817 at Pest.
The genus '' Kitaibelia'' of mallows was named after him by Carl Ludwig von Willdenow.
Species named after him:
* '' Ablepharus kitaibelii'' Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Kitaibel", p. 142).
* '' Cardamine kitaibelii''
* '' Kitaibela vitifolia''
* '' Knautia kitaibelii''
* '' Aquilegia kitaibelii''
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Biography in Hungarian
Plants named for Kitaibel at IPNI
Bibliography
Books by and about Paul Kitaibel on Worldcat.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kitaibel, Pal 19th-century Hungarian botanists Hungarian chemists 18th-century Hungarian botanists People from Mattersburg District 1757 births 1817 deaths