You are bidding on one Handwritten, signed postcard of Swiss botanist Paul Aellen (1896-1973).
Dated Basel, 17. June 1934.
Aimed at the Austrian botanist Karl Heinz Rechinger (1906-1998) at the Natural History Museum in Vienna.
Transcription (some words/proper names difficult to read): "Dear Doctor! Today everything arrived together: your card and the package with your two works. I would like to thank you very much for everything, especially for the effort you put into revising the (???)! Hope you have a nice successful trip! I hope to be on the trip to Asia Minor in 3 weeks. Of course I will pay particular attention to R(???). Thank you very much again to your best regards, P. Aellen."
With rare stamp “Instead of folio and quart, use standard format” (No. 1.14 German. Handbook of Swiss Machine Stamps, Giovanni Balimann).
Format:10.5x14.7cm.
On fairly thin, flexible paper.
Condition:Card browned and slightly stained, with corner creases. bplease note the pictures too!
Internal note: FM 210912
About Paul Aellen and Karl Heinz Rechinger (source: wikipedia):
Paul Aellen (*13. May 1896 in Basel; † 19. August 1973 in Heiligenschwendi) was a Swiss botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is “Aellen”; The abbreviation “Aell.” was previously used.
Life and work: Aellen was particularly intensively concerned with the plant families of the foxtail family (Amaranthaceae) and the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae); The latter, however, is currently classified in the foxtail family. Aellen was a teacher at various schools in Schaffhausen (1921–1927) and Basel (until 1958).
Dedication names: The German botanist Oskar Eberhard Ulbrich named the plant genus Aellenia from the foxtail family (Amaranthaceae) in his honor. At that time, this was assigned to the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae); However, the genus is currently dissolved and the species it contains are assigned to the genus Halothamnus.
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Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Chenopodiaceae... In: Botan. Yearb., Volume 68, pages 345–434, 1937–1938.
Karl Heinz Rechinger (*16. October 1906 in Vienna; † 30. December 1998 ibid) was an Austrian botanist. His official botanical author abbreviation is “Rech.f.”.
Life: Karl Heinz Rechinger, son of the botanist Karl Rechinger and the botanist Lily Rechinger-Favarger (1880–1973), studied botany at the University of Vienna after attending the Schottengymnasium and was the last student of Richard Wettstein to receive his doctorate there in May 1931. After Wettstein's death, Rechinger was in contact with his successors at the University of Vienna, Fritz Knoll, Lothar Geitler and Friedrich Ehrendorfer. In 1937, at the age of 31, he took on a temporary position as a research assistant in the botanical department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, where he was increasingly responsible for managing the department following the age-related retirement of Karl von Keissler (1872–1965). Five years later he was permanently appointed to this position.
During the Second World War he organized the evacuation of the herbarium and the library of the Natural History Museum with around 16 million herbarium specimens and 600,000 books. A large part of the herbarium specimens were housed in Lunz am See, where Rechinger also experienced the end of the Second World War.
In 1953 he submitted his work Phytogeographia Aegaea as his habilitation thesis and then became a university lecturer at the University of Vienna. In 1960 he received the title of associate professor there. In 1956 he was a visiting professor at the University of Baghdad and founded the university's herbarium there.
In 1962 he succeeded Hans Strouhal (1897–1969) as first director of the Natural History Museum in Vienna, received the title of Hofrat and shortly afterwards with the title of Real Hofrat, service class VIII, the highest position that can be achieved in a career at Austrian federal museums . He retired in 1971 and was succeeded by Friedrich Bachmayer.
Rechinger died on the 30th. December 1998 at the age of 93 in Vienna. He was buried in his father's grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery.
Research and writings: Over the course of his life, Rechinger collected over 80,000 plants, with a focus on the vascular plants of Greece and the highlands of Southwest Asia. He published the results of his work in over 200 scientific publications and was editor and co-author of Flora Iranica (179 volumes). Rechinger was the author of Flora Aegaea (1943, Supplementum 1949), Flora of Euboea, Flora of Lowland Iraq (1964) and - together with the Swiss botanist Werner Greuter - the Flora of the Island of Kythera (1967). He was also editor of the 1957 to 1971 in 2. Volumes 3(1) and 3(2) of the work Illustrierte Flora von Mitteleuropa founded by Gustav Hegi.
Awards: In 1957 he was elected an extraordinary member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in Halle (1959), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1987), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences in Copenhagen and the Linnean Society of London. He also received an honorary doctorate from Lund University and the Golden Doctoral Diploma from the University of Vienna in 1981.
The moss genus Rechingerella J.Fröhl., the lichen genus Rechingeria Servit and the fungus genus Rechingeriella Petr are named after Rechinger.
Publications: See the complete list of publications in Hans Walter Lack: Karl Heinz Rechinger - a life for botany.