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Hu Jiayu
[edit]Hu Jiayu | |
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胡家玉 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Hu Yu 16 November, 1808 Xinjian, Jiangxi, Qing China |
| Died | 1886 (aged 77–78) Nanchang, Jiangxi, Qing China |
| Relations | Hu Hsen-Hsu (great-grandchild) |
Hu Jiayu (Chinese: 胡家玉, 16 November 1808 – 1886), courtesy name Xiaoqu (Chinese: 小蘧), was a Chinese politician from Jiangxi Province during the Qing Dynasty.
Biography
[edit]Hu Jiayu was born on 16 November, 1808 in Xinjian (now Xinjian county, Nanchang) in Jiangxi province. In 1841 Hu achieved third place in the Jinshi stage of the national imperial examinations, with the rank of Tanhua (Chinese: 探花). He was given the position of Bianxiu (编修) at Hanlin Academy.
Hu Jiayu is the great-grandfather of the botanist and scholar Hu Hsen-Hsu, of which Hu Hsen-Hsu's courtesy name of Buzeng (Chinese: 步曾; pinyin: bù zēng; lit. 'Following the steps of great-grandfather') comes from.
Wan-Chun Cheng
[edit]Wan Chun Cheng or Zheng Wanjun (simplified Chinese: 郑万钧; traditional Chinese: 鄭萬鈞; pinyin: Zhèng Wànjūn; Wade–Giles: Wan Chung Cheng, 24 June 1908–25 July 1987)[1] was a Chinese botanist. Initially one of the Chinese plant collectors who followed in the wake of the Europeans after 1920, he became one of the world's leading authorities on the taxonomy of gymnosperms. Working at the National Central University in Nanjing, he was instrumental, along with H.H.Hu, in the identification in 1944 of the dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, previously known only from fossils and was long thought extinct.[2] The plant Juniperus chengii is named in his honour.
Born into a business family in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, he studied in a vocational school run by a Frenchman in his early years. At the age of 13, he was admitted to the Jiangsu Provincial First Agricultural School, and stayed in school to work after graduating in 1924. Later, he was recommended to National Southeast University by Sung Shu Chien and was promoted to an assistant in dendrology. From 1929 to 1939, Wan worked as a botany researcher at the Institute of Biology, Chinese Society of Sciences. During this period, he engaged in a large number of surveys and research on forest plants in China.
References
[edit]- ^ "中国数字植物标本馆 － 植物名称作者数据库". Archived from the original on 2015-02-10. Retrieved 2015-02-10.
- ^ Roy Lancaster (2013). "Helping a fossil live on". The Garden. 138 (1). Royal Horticultural Society: 45.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. W.C.Cheng.