November 12, 2012 <Back to Index> Botanist Anton Kerner von Marilaun, 1831 Poet Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana, 1648 General of the Ming Dynasty Qi Jiguang, 1528 This page is sponsored by: PAGE SPONSOR

Anton Kerner von Marilaun (November 12, 1831 – 1898) was an Austrian botanist and professor at the University of Vienna. Kerner was born in Mautern, Lower Austria on 12 November 1831, and studied Medicine in Vienna followed by an education in Natural History, for which he carried out phytosociologic studies in Central Europe. In 1860 Kerner was appointed professor of Natural History at the University of Innsbruck and in 1878 professor of Systematic Botany at the University of Vienna. He was also appointed as a Curator of the Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna. Kerner died in 1898 in Vienna at the age of 67. Kerner was particularly active in the field of phytogeography and phytosociology, and wrote the comprehensive German texts, "Das Pflanzenleben der Donauländer" (The Background of Plant Ecology, translated by Henry S. Conard, 1951), 1863 and "Pflanzenleben", 1890 - 1891 (The Natural History of Plants, Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and Distribution, translated by F.W. Oliver, 1895 - 1896).