Person
Schomburgk, Moritz Richard (1811 - 1891)
- Born
- 5 October 1811
Freyburg, Saxony, Germany - Died
- 24 March 1891
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Botanic gardens director and Botanist
Summary
Moritz Schomburgk was Director of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 1865-1891.
Details
Chronology
- 1865
- Career event - Elected as a Member, Adelaide Philosophical Society
Related entries
Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium
- Moritz Richard Schomburgk - Records, 1844 - 1976, P4-2; Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details
Books
- Payne, Pauline, The Diplomatic Gardener: Richard Schomburgk, Explorer and Botanic Garden Director (North Adelaide: Jephcott Press, 2007), 201 pp. Details
- Schomburgk, R., The grasses of fodder plants which may be beneficial to the squatter and agriculturist in South Australia (Adelaide: Printer: William Kyffin Thomas, 1874), 10 pp. Details
- Schomburgk, Richard, Catalogue of the plants under cultivation in the Government Botanic Garden, Adelaide, South Australia (Adelaide: Government Printer, 1878), 285 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Dalziell, Rosamund, '"Botanical Autobiography and Vegetable Wonders": Richard Schomburgk's Botanical Reminiscences of British Guiana' in To the Islands: Australia and the Caribbean, McDougall, Russell, ed. (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2002), pp. 69-78. Details
- Middelmann, Raoul F., 'Schomburgk, Moritz Richard (1811-1891), botanist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn, ed., vol. 6 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), pp. 91-92. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060104b.htm. Details
- Payne, Pauline, 'Richard Moritz Schomburgk. Second Director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden 1865-91' in The German Experience of Australia 1833-1938, Harmstorf, Ian, ed. (Bedford Park, South Australia: Australian Association of von Humboldt Fellows, 1988). Details
- Payne, Pauline, 'Science at the Periphery: Dr. Schomburgk's Garden' in Darwin's Laboratory: Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific, Roy MacLeod and Philip F. Rehbock, eds (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994), pp. 239-259. Details
- Payne, Pauline, 'Richard Schomburgk: explorer, natural scientist, and Botanic Garden Director' in Germans: travellers, settlers and their descendants in South Australia, Monteath, Peter, ed. (Kent Town, S.A.: Wakefield Press, 2011), pp. 126-43. Details
Journal Articles
- Kloot, P. M., 'Dr. Richard Schomburgk's 'Naturalised Weeds' (1879)', Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, 2 (2) (1980), 195-220. Details
- Schwarz, Anja, 'Schomburgk's chook: the entangled South Australian collections of a German naturalist', Postcolonial studies, 21 (1) (2018), 20-34. Details
- Weigl, Engelhard, 'Acclimatisation: the Schomburgk brothers in Australia', International review of Humboldtian studies, 4 (7) (2003), 3-13. Details
Resources
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/30332468. Details
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q106178. Details
- 'Schomburgk, Richard (18111005-18910324)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-498575. Details
Reviews
- Payne, Pauline, The diplomatic gardener: Richard Schomburgk, explorer and botanic gardens director (2007)
Maroske, Sara, Australian Garden History, 19 (4), (2008), 17-9. Details - Payne, Pauline, The diplomatic gardener: Richard Schomburgk, explorer and botanic gardens director (2007)
McKinnon, Ross, Historical Records of Australian Science, 19 (2), (2008), 225-6, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR08008. Details - Payne, Pauline, The diplomatic gardener: Richard Schomburgk, Explorer and Botanic Garden Director (2007)
Short, Philip, Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 135, (2008), 36-8. Details
Theses
- Payne, Pauline, 'Dr Richard Schomburgk and Adelaide Botanic Garden 1865-91', Thesis, University of Adelaide, 1992. Details
See also
- Harcus, William, South Australia: its history, resources and productions (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876), 432 pp. Details
- Maiden, J. H., 'A century of botanical endeavour in South Australia', Report of the eleventh meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 11 (1908), 158-199, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14539732. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 11 November 2021
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