Albert Thellung

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Albert Thellung
Albert Thellung in 1914.
Born(1881-05-12)12 May 1881
Enge, Switzerland
Died(1928-06-26)26 June 1928
Zürich, Switzerland
Scientific career
FieldsBotany

Albert Thellung (12 May 1881 – 26 June 1928) was a Swiss botanist.

He was a professor at the University of Zürich. The Austrian botanist Otto Stapf named the plant genus Thellungia of the grass family, Poaceae, after him, and Otto Eugen Schulz named the genus Thellungiella (family Brassicaceae) in his honour.[1]

Thellung made contributions to the third (1909–14) and fourth (1923) editions of Schinz and Keller's Flora der Schweiz.[2]

  1. ^ CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: R-Z by Umberto Quattrocchi
  2. ^ Biodiversity Heritage Library (publications)