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George Edward Post (1838–1909) was an American surgeon, academic and botanist.


Biography

George Edward Post was born in
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on December 17, 1838, the son of Alfred Charles Post. He was a Professor of Surgery at the Syrian Protestant College in
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, which became the American University of Beirut (AUB). He had originally graduated from University College of New York.Mounir(Munir) E Nassar, M.D., FACP During 1860, he worked as a missionary doctor in Syria. He later published 18 articles in
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, including ''Arabic Dictionary of the Holy Bible'', ''Classification and Study of Principles of Plant Physiology and Function'' and ''Rules of How to Succeed'' and translated two texts from Arabic into English. Post published broadly in the areas of natural history, medicine, and theology. Post formally described 221 taxa, and published an extensive volume on the Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai in 1896. He was also one of the contributors to '' Smith's Bible Dictionary'', in 1893. Later, a new and revised edition of Post's seminal work was published posthumously in 1932–1933 by John Edward Dinsmore, entitled ''Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai: Volume 1: A Handbook of The Flowering Plants and Ferns, Native and Naturalized From The Taurus to Ras Muhammad And From the Mediterranean Sea to The Syrian Desert, Vol I and II'', and which includes a description of many new plants, including '' Iris hermona''. In 1875, Pierre Edmond Boissier and Charles Isidore Blanche published ''Postia'' (in the Asteraceae family), it is now a synonym of '' Rhanteriopsis lanuginosa''. Then in 1985, botanist Evgeniy Vasilyevich Kljuykov published '' Postiella'', which is a monotypic genus of
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s belonging to the family Apiaceae and named in Post's honour. For his work as a surgeon and missionary, he received the Order of the Red Eagle from the Kingdom of Prussia. He died in Beirut on September 30, 1909.


References


Further reading

* Jessup, H. H., 1910. Fifty-three years in Syria. New York: Fleming H. Revell. 2 volumes. * Khoury, G.Y., 1992. The founding fathers of the American University of Beirut biographies. Beirut: American University of Beirut. Pp 232 (English), 215 (Arabic). * Musselman, L.J., 2006. The botanical activities of George Edward Post (1838-1909). Archives of Natural History 33(2): 282-301. {{DEFAULTSORT:Post, George Edward 1838 births 1909 deaths American botanists Academic staff of the American University of Beirut City College of New York alumni Physicians from New York City Torrey Botanical Society members Natural history of Palestine (region)