!!!Wettstein, Richard von Westernheim

b. Vienna, June 30, 1863, 
d. Trins (Tyrol), Aug. 10, 1931, botanist. Introduced the phylogenetic 
system into botany; father of Friedrich  Wettstein. Disciple and 
assistant of A.  Kerner; 1892 Professor at the University of Prague, 
from 1899 at the University of Vienna. Newly laid out the botanical 
gardens of Vienna University and set up the building of the Department 
of Botany, including its museum (1905). Vice-President of the Academy 
of Sciences (from 1919); 1901 President of the Vienna 
Zoological-Botanical Society; undertook an expedition to Brazil; 
travelled to South and East Africa with his son Friedrich W. in 
1929/30.

!Publications
Grundzuege der geograph.-morpholog. Methode der 
Pflanzensystematik, 1898; Botanik und Zoologie in Oesterreich 
1850-1900, 1901; Der Neo-Lamarckismus und seine Beziehungen zum 
Darwinismus, 1903; Handbuch der systematischen Botanik, 2 vols., 
%%sup 4/%1934.

!Literature
E. Janchen, R. W., 1933.



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