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August von Hayek (14 December 1871 – 11 June 1928) was an Austrian physician and botanist born in Vienna. 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.




Principal works


Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Balkanicae. Dahlem bei Berlin: Verlag des Repertoriums. 1924. (Prodomus of Balkan peninsula flora).
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. Berlin: Borntraeger. 1908. Retrieved 29 October 2023 – via Internet Archive.
Schedae ad Florum stiriacum exsiccatum, 1904–1912.
Die Pflanzendecke Österreich-Ungarns. Vol. 1. Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke. 1916. Retrieved 29 October 2023 – via Internet Archive.
Allgemeine Pflanzengeographie. Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger. 1926.

Hayek edited two exsiccata series, namely Flora stiriaca exsiccata and Centaureae exsiccatae criticae.




References






External links


"Hayek, August Gustav Joseph Edler von" (in German). Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
"Hayek, August von (1871–1928), Botaniker" (in German). Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und Biographische Dokumentation. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
Vierhapper, Friedrich (1929). "August v. Hayek: Ein Nachruf" (PDF). Zool.-Bot. Ges. Österreich (in German). 78: 136–151.
Caldwell, Bruce; Klausinger, Hansjoerg (2022). Friedrich Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226816838.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-226-81682-1.
Ebenstein, Alan (2001). Friedrich Hayek: A Biography. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Trade. ISBN 9780312233440.
Works by or about August von Hayek at the Internet Archive

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