Person
Betche, Ernst (1851 - 1913)
- Born
- 31 December 1851
Germany - Died
- 28 June 1913
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Botanical collector and Botanist
Summary
Ernst Betche was appointed as a botanical collector for the Sydney Botanic Gardens in 1881, botanical assistant in 1897 and later chief botanical assistant. He collected widely in New South Wales and published many papers on systematic botany in Australia.
Details
Born 31 December 1851. Baptised Daniel Ludwig Ernst at Potsdam, near Berlin. Died Sydney, 28 June 1913. Educated Horticultural College, Potsdam. Municipal Gardens, Berlin; volunteer gardener, Ghent, Belgium 1974; collected plants in the South Seas; arrived Sydney 1880; director, Sydney Botanic Gardens 1881-97, botanical assistant from 1897 and later chief botanical assistant. Collaborated with Charles Moore in the "Handbook of the flora of New South Wales" (1893) and with J.H. Maiden in "A census of New South Wales plants" (1916).
Chronology
- 1881 - 1897
- Career position - Botanical collector, Sydney Botanic Gardens
- 1891
- Life event - Naturalised as an New South Wales citizen
- 1893
- Career event - Published: "Handbook of the flora of New South Wales" co-authored with Charles Moore
- 1897 - 1913
- Career position - Botanical assistant, then Chief botanical assistant, Sydney Botanic Gardens
- 1916
- Career event - Published: "A census of New South Wales plants", with J. H. Maiden
- 1934
- Taxonomy event - Betche was collector of a syntype of Eucalyptus stuartiana F. Muell ex Miq. var. amblycorys Blakely.
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Archival resources
Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
- Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Ernst Betche - Records, 1913; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Books
- Maiden, J. H.; Betche, Ernst, A census of New South Wales plants (Sydney: Government Printer, 1916), 216 pp. Details
- Moore, Charles; Betche, Ernst, Handbook of the flora of New South Wales : a description of the flowering plants and ferns indigenous to New South Wales (Sydney: Government Printer, 1893), 582 pp. Details
Book Sections
- McCormack, Terri, 'Betche, Ernst (1851-1913), botanist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 3: 1851 - 1890 A-C, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1969), p. 158. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030147b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Froggatt, Walter W., 'The Curators and Botanists of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney.', Royal Australian Historical Society, xviii (III) (1932), 101-133. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8777414. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93250440. Details
- 'Betche, Ernst (1851-1913)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-562230. Details
See also
- Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
- Maiden, J. H., 'Records of Australian botanists (second supplement)', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, 55 (1921), 150-169. Details
Gavan McCarthy
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 3 October 2024
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