George Edward Post

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1838|12|17}}

| birth_place = New York City, US

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1909|09|30|1838|12|17}}

| death_place = Beirut, Syria

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| occupation = {{hlist|Surgeon|naturalist}}

| father = Alfred Charles Post

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| awards = Order of the Red Eagle

| education = University College of New York

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George Edward Post (1838–1909) was an American surgeon, academic and botanist.

Biography

George Edward Post was born in New York City on December 17, 1838, the son of Alfred Charles Post.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bTABAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA493 |title=Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography |volume=IV |editor-first=Thomas William |editor-last=Herringshaw |editor-link=Thomas William Herringshaw |publisher=American Publishers Association |page=493 |year=1914 |access-date=2020-07-23 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55933097/george-edward-post-dead/ |title=George Edward Post Dead |newspaper=The Sun |page=6 |date=1909-10-01 |access-date=2020-07-23 |via=Newspapers.com}}

He was a Professor of Surgery at the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut, which became the American University of Beirut (AUB).{{Cite AMB1920|wstitle=Post, Alfred Charles}}

He had originally graduated from University College of New York.Mounir(Munir) E Nassar, M.D., FACP {{Google books|RFWRAwAAQBAJ|Clinical Medicine Research History at the American University of Beirut, Faculty of Medicine (120-1974)|page=6}}

During 1860, he worked as a missionary doctor in Syria.{{cite book |last1=Jessup |first1=Henry Harris |title=Fifty Three Years in Syria - Volume I |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Lv2DwAAQBAJ&dq=Yebrud+syria&pg=PT247 |publisher=Read Books Limited |access-date=7 December 2020 |date=1910|isbn=9781528760065 }}

He later published 18 articles in Arabic, including Arabic Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Classification and Study of Principles of Plant Physiology and Function and Rules of How to Succeed and translated two texts from Arabic into English. Post published broadly in the areas of natural history, medicine, and theology.L.J. Musselman and N.S. Saoud, 2004. [http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/botany/issues/bot-04-28-1-2/bot-28-1-2-15-0212-5.pdf The Type Specimens of George Edward Post in Beirut and Geneva] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814085213/http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/botany/issues/bot-04-28-1-2/bot-28-1-2-15-0212-5.pdf |date=2017-08-14 }}. Turkish Journal of Botany, 28, 155-160. Post formally described 221 taxa, and published an extensive volume on the Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai in 1896.

He was also one of the contributors to Smith's Bible Dictionary, in 1893.Robert E. Thompson {{Google books|KV6vCwAAQBAJ|A History of the Presbyterian Churches in the United States|page=21}}

Later, a new and revised edition of Post's seminal work was published posthumously in 1932–1933 by John Edward Dinsmore, entitled Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai: Volume 1: A Handbook of The Flowering Plants and Ferns, Native and Naturalized From The Taurus to Ras Muhammad And From the Mediterranean Sea to The Syrian Desert, Vol I and II,{{cite web |title=Flora of Syria, Palestine, And Sinai |url=http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=17236636651&searchurl=sortby%3D17%26an%3DPost%252C%2BGeorge%2BE.%253B%2BJohn%2BEdward%2BDinsmore |publisher=abebooks.com |access-date=31 October 2016}}{{cite web |title=Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai... |url=https://www.ipni.org/p/5272-2 |publisher=ipni.org |access-date=1 October 2020}} and which includes a description of many new plants, including Iris hermona.{{cite web |title=Iridaceae Iris hermona Dinsm. |url=http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=438694-1 |publisher=ipni.org (International Plant Names Index) |access-date=24 October 2016}}

In 1875, Pierre Edmond Boissier and Charles Isidore Blanche published Postia (in the Asteraceae family), it is now a synonym of Rhanteriopsis lanuginosa.{{cite web |title=Postia lanuginosa Boiss. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:239387-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=14 September 2022 |language=en}} Then in 1985, botanist Evgeniy Vasilyevich Kljuykov published Postiella, which is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae and named in Post's honour.{{cite web |title=Postiella Kljuykov {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:893479-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=16 March 2021 |language=en}}{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 | s2cid=246307410 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}

For his work as a surgeon and missionary, he received the Order of the Red Eagle from the Kingdom of Prussia.

He died in Beirut on September 30, 1909.

George Edward Post

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