(Sven) August Heintze (1881–1941) (sometimes spelled Heinze) was a Swedish

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

Life

Heintze was born on 26 September 1881 to Fredrik and Kerstin (

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Svensson) Heintze in

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. He had a younger sister, Anna Maria (b. 1889). He enrolled as a student at

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in 1901. He graduated in 1906, and earned his doctorate in 1913. His first position was as a teacher at

Uddevalla Uddevalla is a Stad (Sweden), town in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It’s the seat of Uddevalla Municipality. In 2015, it had a population of 34,781, making it the largest town fully in Bohuslän. Uddevalla is located where the river Bäveån ...

kommunalgymnasium. Heintze died on 6 May 1941 in Stockholm, and is buried in the Skurups Norra Kyrkogård ("Skurup's Northern Cemetery"). He is known for his work on the classification of

cormophytes Cormophytes (Cormophyta) is a historical term seldom used today for the plants that are differentiated into roots, stems and leaves. These plants differ from thallophytes, whose body is referred to as the thallus, i.e. a simple body not differenti ...

, particularly the family Ranuculaceae.

Selected publications

Publications include: * (''Cormofyt. Fylog.'') (Abstract in German.) * Heintze, August. (1932–1935) Handbuch der Verbreitungsökologie der Pflanzen. Stockholm, Selbstverlag * Heintze, August. (1908) Växtgeografiska anteckningar från ett par färder genom Skibottendalen i Tromsö amt. ''Arkiv Bot.'' v 7 no 11 * Heintze, August. (1913) Växttopografiska undersökningar i Åsele Lappmarks fjälltrakter. I–II ''Arkiv Bot.'' v 12 no 11; v 13 no 5 * Heintze, August. (1909) Växtgeografiska undersökningar i Råne socken af Norrbottens län. ''Arkiv Bot.'' v 9 no 8

Legacy

Published names include: * Burmanniales Heintze, ''Cormofyt. Fylog.'': 159 1927. ** Burmanniidae Heintze, ''Cormofyt. Fylog.'': 10. 1927. * Marattiophyta Heintze, ''Cormofyt. Fylog.'': 22. 1927. * Orchididae Heintze, ''Cormofyt. Fylog.'': 10. 1927. *

Oxalidales Oxalidales is an order of flowering plants, included within the rosid subgroup of eudicots. This group comprises six families that contain approximately 2000 species in 58 genera. They are trees, shrubs or woody vines which are found in the wet ...

Heintze, ''Cormofyt. Fylog.'': 13, 126 1927. *

Paeoniales The peony or paeony () is any flowering plant in the genus ''Paeonia'', the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae. Peonies are native to Asia, Europe, and Western North America. Scientists differ on the number of species that can be distinguishe ...

Heintze, ''Cormofyt. Fylog.'': 12. 1927 *

Psilotophyta Ophioglossidae is one of the four subclasses of Polypodiopsida (ferns). This subclass consists of the ferns commonly known as whisk ferns, grape ferns, adder's-tongues and moonworts. It is equivalent to the class Psilotopsida in previous treat ...

Heintze, ''Cormofyt. Fylog.'': 22. 1927. *

Ranunculaceae Ranunculaceae (, buttercup or crowfoot family; Latin "little frog", from "frog") is a family (biology), family of over 2,000 known species of flowering plants in 43 genera, distributed worldwide. The largest genera are ''Ranunculus'' (600 spec ...

subfam. Thalictroideae Heintze, ''Cormofyt. Fylog.'': 103 1927. ** Trolliinae Heintze, ''Cormfyt. Fylog.'': 103. 1927

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