August von Hayek (14 December 1871 – 11 June 1928) was an
Austrian physician and botanist born in
Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...
. He was the son of naturalist
Gustav von Hayek and the father of economist
Friedrich Hayek
Friedrich August von Hayek (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992) was an Austrian-born British academic and philosopher. He is known for his contributions to political economy, political philosophy and intellectual history. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobe ...
(1899–1992).
Biography
In 1895 he obtained his medical doctorate from the
University of Vienna
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. Soon, he was employed by the municipal ministry of health. He obtained his PhD in 1905. Beginning in 1922, he taught classes at the ''
Hochschule für Bodenkultur'' in Vienna, and from 1926, he was an associate professor at the university. He died in 1928 in Vienna.
He is remembered for
phytogeographical investigations that took place within the
Austria-Hungarian Empire, in particular,
Styria
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and the
Balkans
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. He also conducted detailed studies on the historical development of flora found along the eastern and southeastern edge of the
Alps
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...
. In the field of
plant systematics, he specialized in ''
Centaurea
''Centaurea'' () is a genus of over 700 species of herbaceous thistle-like flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. Members of the genus are found only north of the equator, mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere; the Middle East and surrounding ...
'' species native to Austria-Hungary.
He was married to Felicitas von Juraschek.
Principal works
* (Prodomus of
Balkan peninsula
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flora).
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* ''Schedae ad Florum stiriacum exsiccatum'', 1904–1912.
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Hayek edited two
exsiccata
Exsiccata (Latin, ''gen.'' -ae, ''plur.'' -ae) is a work with "published, uniform, numbered set of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels". Typically, exsiccatae are numbered collections of dried herbarium Biological specimen, spe ...
series, namely ''Flora stiriaca exsiccata'' and ''Centaureae exsiccatae criticae''.
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20th-century Austrian botanists
Academic staff of the University of Vienna
Scientists from Vienna
Austrian people of Moravian-German descent
Edlers of Austria
Habsburg Bohemian nobility
1871 births
1928 deaths
20th-century Austrian physicians
Scientists from Austria-Hungary
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