Biographical entry Schomburgk, Moritz Richard (1811 - 1891)

Summary

Moritz Richard Schomburgk was Director of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 1865-1891.

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium

• Moritz Richard Schomburgk - Records, 1844 - 1976, P4-2; Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• Collins, David, Chemistry in Australia Bibliography, eScholarship Research Centre, 2009, http://www.eoas.info/ciab.html. Details

Books

• Payne, Pauline, The Diplomatic Gardener: Richard Schomburgk, Explorer and Botanic Garden Director, Jephcott Press, North Adelaide, 2007, 201 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Dalziell, Rosamund, '"Botanical Autobiography and Vegetable Wonders": Richard Schomburgk's Botanical Reminiscences of British Guiana', in McDougall, Russell (ed.), To the Islands: Australia and the Caribbean, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2002, pp. 69-78. Details
• Middelmann, Raoul F., 'Schomburgk, Moritz Richard (1811-1891), botanist', in Bede Nairn (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 6, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1976, pp. 91-92. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060104b.htm. Details
• Payne, Pauline, 'Richard Moritz Schomburgk. Second Director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden 1865-91', in Harmstorf, Ian (ed.), The German Experience of Australia 1833-1938, Australian Association of von Humboldt Fellows, Bedford Park, South Australia, 1988. Details
• Payne, Pauline, 'Science at the Periphery: Dr. Schomburgk's Garden', in Roy MacLeod and Philip F. Rehbock (eds), Darwin's Laboratory: Evolutionary Theory and Natural History in the Pacific, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1994, pp. 239-259. Details

Journal Articles

• Kloot, P. M., 'Dr. Richard Schomburgk's 'Naturalised Weeds' (1879)', Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, vol. 2, no. 2, 1980, pp. 195-220. Details
• Maiden, J.H., 'A Century of Botanical Endeavor in South Australia', Australasian Association for Advancement of Science, vol. xi, 1907, pp. 158-199. Details

Theses

• Payne, Pauline, 'Dr Richard Schomburgk and Adelaide Botanic Garden 1865-91', Thesis, University of Adelaide, 1992. Details

Online Resources

• 'Schomburgk, Richard', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-498575. Details