Person
Staiger, Karl Theodor (1833 - 1888)
- Born
- 8 October 1833
Kunzelsau, Wurttemberg, Germany - Died
- 5 October 1888
South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Chemical analyst and Museum curator
Summary
Karl Staiger worked as an analytical chemist for the Queensland Government 1873-1880 and worked with Mikluho-Maclay during 1880. He was secretary and the first professional appointment of the Queensland Museum 1876-1879.
Details
Chronology
- 1883
- Taxonomy event - Honoured with Eucalyptus staigeriana F.Muell. ex F.M.Bailey
Archival resources
Queensland Museum Library
- Karl Theodor Staiger - Records, 1876 - 1879; Queensland Museum Library. 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
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15297956. Details
- 'Staiger, Karl Theodor (-1888)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1474369. Details
See also
- Golding, Gary M., Analytical chemistry, an interesting career: a history of the Queensland Government Analytical Chemistry Laboratory ([Brisbane]: G. Golding, 2022), 181 pp, https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3136514654/view. Details
- 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
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 28 February 2018
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