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Leopold Quehl (1849–1922,
Quehl was employed as a postal worker in Halle. Around 1873 he developed an interest in
Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names] by Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton * '' Gymnocalycium quehlianum'' ( F.Haage ex Quehl)Cacti collection-Holzheu
Gymnocalycium
Halle an der Saale
Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (), is the second largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is the sixth-most populous city in the area of former East Germany after (East) Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Magdeburg as well as t ...
) was a German amateur 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 ...
who specialized in Cactaceae
A cactus (: cacti, cactuses, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae (), a family of the order Caryophyllales comprising about 127 genera with some 1,750 known species. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, ...
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Biography
Quehl was employed as a postal worker in Halle. Around 1873 he developed an interest in cacti
A cactus (: cacti, cactuses, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae (), a family of the order Caryophyllales comprising about 127 genera with some 1,750 known species. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, ...
, and subsequently amassed a large collection of living plants as well as creating a herbarium
A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant biological specimen, specimens and associated data used for scientific study.
The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sh ...
. He was the binomial authority
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, altho ...
of numerous species within the family Cactaceae
A cactus (: cacti, cactuses, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae (), a family of the order Caryophyllales comprising about 127 genera with some 1,750 known species. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, ...
, of which he published his findings in the ''Monatsschrift für Kakteenkunde''.
Quehl was a founding member of ''Deutsche Kakteen-Gesellschaft'' (DKG).
Legacy
Plants with the specific epithets of ''quehlianum'' and ''quehlianus'' are named in his honor; examples being: * ''Echinocactus quehlianus'' (F.Haage ex Quehl).Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names] by Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton * '' Gymnocalycium quehlianum'' ( F.Haage ex Quehl)
Vaupel Vaupel is a surname originating from Germany. Notable people with the surname include:
*Egon Vaupel (born 1950), German politician (SPD)
* Friedrich Karl Johann Vaupel (1876–1927), German botanist
* Hans Georg Vaupel (born 1934), German sculptor
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ex Hosseus).Gymnocalycium
References
1849 births 1922 deaths 19th-century German botanists Scientists from Halle (Saale) 20th-century German botanists {{Germany-botanist-stub