Albert Grunow

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Albert Grunow (3 November 1826, Berlin – 17 March 1914, Berndorf, Lower Austria) was a German-Austrian chemist and phycologist. He specialized in the study of diatoms.

From 1851 he worked as a chemist in a metal works factory in Berndorf. In 1857-59 he participated in the Austrian "Novara Expedition", and was tasked with analysis of its algal collections. Also, he served as a collector, preparator and determiner of specimens towards the development of Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst's diatom exsiccatae.[1] Grunow co-edited two exsiccata series, one of them under the title Algae Ceylanicae, legit W. Ferguson, determ. A. Grunow with William Ferguson.[2][3]

In 1901 he donated his collection of extant and fossil diatoms to the Natural History Museum of Vienna. He was a corresponding member of the Geologischen Reichsanstalt.[4]

  1. ^ JSTOR Global Plants
  2. ^ Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
  3. ^ "Algae Ceylanicae, legit W. Ferguson, determ. A. Grunow: IndExs ExsiccataID=446690304". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  4. ^ Rechinger, Karl (1915-05-17). "Albert Grunow. (Eine biographische Skizze)" (PDF). Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Österreich: 321–328 – via Zobodat.