August von Hayek
{{short description|Austrian physician and botanist (1871–1928)}}
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| birth_place = Vienna, Austria-Hungary
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| death_place = Vienna, Republic of Austria
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Friedrich Hayek
Heinrich von Hayek
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August von Hayek (14 December 1871 – 11 June 1928) was an Austrian physician and botanist born in Vienna.{{cite book |chapter = Hayek, August von |title= Österreichische Biographische Lexikon 1815–1950 |place= Wien |publisher=Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften |url=https://www.biographien.ac.at/oebl_2/226.pdf |year= 1959 |volume= 2 |page= 226 |language = German}} He was the son of naturalist Gustav von Hayek and the father of economist Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992).
Biography
In 1895 he obtained his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna. Soon, he was employed by the municipal ministry of health. He obtained his PhD in 1905. Beginning in 1922, he taught classes at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur in Vienna, and from 1926, he was an associate professor at the university. He died in 1928 in Vienna.
He is remembered for phytogeographical investigations that took place within the Austria-Hungarian Empire, in particular, Styria and the Balkans. He also conducted detailed studies on the historical development of flora found along the eastern and southeastern edge of the Alps. In the field of plant systematics, he specialized in Centaurea species native to Austria-Hungary.
He was married to Felicitas von Juraschek.{{sfn|Ebenstein|2001|p=7}}
Principal works
- {{cite book |title= Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Balkanicae |publisher= Verlag des Repertoriums |url= https://floraionica.univie.ac.at/index.php?site=5&tl_id=1 |place= Dahlem bei Berlin |year= 1924}} (Prodomus of Balkan peninsula flora).{{cite journal |last = Stearn |first= William T.|title= Hayek's "Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Balcanicae"|author-link= William T. Stearn |journal=Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History |volume= 1 |date= December 1937 |issue=4 |url= https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/jsbnh.1937.1.4.117?src=recsys |pages= 117–119|doi= 10.3366/jsbnh.1937.1.4.117|access-date=17 May 2020}}
- {{cite book |title= Flora von der Steiermark: eine systematische Bearbeitung der im Herzogtum Steiermark wildwachsenden oder im Grossen gebauten Farn- und Blütenpflanzen nebst einer pflanzengeographischen Schilderung des Landes |year= 1908 |place=Berlin |publisher= Borntraeger |url=https://archive.org/details/floravonsteierma01haye/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |via= Internet Archive|accessdate= 29 October 2023}}
- Schedae ad Florum stiriacum exsiccatum, 1904–1912.
- {{cite book |title= Die Pflanzendecke Österreich-Ungarns |volume =1 |year= 1916 |place= Leipzig und Wien |publisher= Franz Deuticke |url= https://archive.org/details/diepflanzendecke01haye/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater|accessdate= 29 October 2023 |via = Internet Archive}}
- {{cite book |title= Allgemeine Pflanzengeographie |year= 1926 |publisher= Gebrüder Borntraeger |place= Berlin}}
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Hayek edited two exsiccata series, namely Flora stiriaca exsiccata{{cite web |title=Flora stiriaca exsiccata: IndExs ExsiccataID=2034501759 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2034501759 |access-date=6 August 2024}} and Centaureae exsiccatae criticae.{{cite web |title=Centaureae exsiccatae criticae: IndExs ExsiccataID=2092069631 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=2092069631 |access-date=6 August 2024}}
{{Botanist|Hayek|Hayek, August von}}
References
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External links
- {{cite web |url= https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz28429.html |title= Hayek, August Gustav Joseph Edler von |publisher= Deutsche Biographie
|doi= |language = German |accessdate= 31 October 2023}}
- {{cite web |url= https://biographien.ac.at/ID-0.3027802-1 |title= Hayek, August von (1871–1928), Botaniker |language = German |publisher= Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und Biographische Dokumentation |doi= |accessdate= 31 October 2023}}
- {{cite journal |author= Vierhapper, Friedrich |author-link= Friedrich Karl Max Vierhapper |title= August v. Hayek: Ein Nachruf |journal=Zool.-Bot. Ges. Österreich |volume= 78 |url=https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/VZBG_78_0136-0151.pdf |pages= 136-151 |date= 1929 |language= German}}
- {{cite book |last=Caldwell |first=Bruce |author1-link= Bruce Caldwell (economist)|last2= Klausinger |first2= Hansjoerg |year=2022 |title=Friedrich Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950 |location=Chicago and London |publisher=Chicago University Press |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.7208/chicago/9780226816838/html |ISBN= 978-0-226-81682-1 |doi= 10.7208/chicago/9780226816838.001.0001}}
- {{cite book |last=Ebenstein |first=Alan |author-link= Alan Ebenstein |year=2001 |title=Friedrich Hayek: A Biography |location=Basingstoke |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan Trade |isbn=9780312233440 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/friedrichhayekbi00eben}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname= Hayek, August}}
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