__NOTOC__ Richard Wettstein (30 June 1863 in

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– 10 August 1931 in

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) was an

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n botanist. His taxonomic system, the

Wettstein system A system of plant taxonomy, the Wettstein system recognised the following main groups, according to Richard Wettstein's ''Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik'' (1901–1924). 3rd edition (1924) Outline Synopsis * Flagellatae p. 65 * ...

, was one of the earliest based on phyletic principles. Wettstein studied in Vienna, where he was a disciple of

Anton Kerner von Marilaun Anton Kerner Ritter von Marilaun, or Anton Joseph Kerner, (12 November 1831 – 21 June 1898) was an Austrian botanist and professor at the University of Vienna. Career Kerner was born in Mautern, Lower Austria, and studied medicine in Vienna f ...

(1831-1898) and married his daughter Adele. He was a professor at the University of Prague from 1892, and at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich h ...

from 1899. He newly laid out the Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna. In 1901 he became president of the Vienna Zoological-Botanical Society (''Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft''), and during the same year took part in a scientific expedition to

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. In 1919 he was appointed vice-president of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. During his later years (1929–30), he traveled with his son, Friedrich, to eastern and southern Africa. The

mycological Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans, including as a source for tinder, traditional medicine, food, and entheogens, as ...

genus '' Wettsteinina'' is named in his honor and also '' Wettsteiniola'', which is a genus of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...

s from Brazil, belonging to the family

Podostemaceae Podostemaceae (riverweed family), a family in the order Malpighiales, comprise about 50 genera and species of more or less thalloid aquatic herbs. Distribution and habitat They are found mostly in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide. M ...

, also honor's Richard Wettstein. In 1905, he was co-president of the

International Botanical Congress International Botanical Congress (IBC) is an international meeting of botanists in all scientific fields, authorized by the International Association of Botanical and Mycological Societies (IABMS) and held every six years, with the location rotati ...

, held in Vienna.

Selected publications

* ''Nolanaceae, Solanaceae, Scrophulariaceae'' in . * ''Grundzüge der geographisch-morphologischen Methode der Pflanzensystematik'', 1898 - Basics of geographical-morphological methods of

plant systematics The history of plant systematics—the biological classification of plants—stretches from the work of ancient Greek to modern evolutionary biologists. As a field of science, plant systematics came into being only slowly, early plant lo ...

. * ''Botanik Und Zoologie In Österreich in den Jahren 1850 Bis 1900'', 1901 - Botany and

zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and ...

in Austria in the years 1850 to 1900. * ''Der Neo-Lamarckismus und seine Beziehungen zum Darwinismus'', 1903 -

Neo-Lamarckism Lamarckism, also known as Lamarckian inheritance or neo-Lamarckism, is the notion that an organism can pass on to its offspring physical characteristics that the parent organism acquired through use or disuse during its lifetime. It is also calle ...

and its relationship to

Darwinism Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that ...

. * **1st ed. 1901–190
Vol. I 1901Vol. II 1908
Deuticke, Vienna **2nd ed. 1910–1911

**4th ed. 1933–1935

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* * * * * 20th-century Austrian botanists Austrian taxonomists 1863 births 1931 deaths Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925) Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Honorary Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Austrian knights Scientists from Vienna 19th-century Austrian botanists Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala {{Austria-botanist-stub

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