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Lujo Adamović

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Lujo Adamović (Serbian Cyrillic: Лујо Адамовић; 31 July 1864 – 19 July 1935) was a Serbian botanist[1] and plant collector who was a leading authority regarding the genus Hieracium, recognized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.[2][3]

Life

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Adamović was born in Rovinj (Rovigno), Istria, Austrian Empire, where his father Vicko Adamović was on a short term of service,[4] and grew up in Dubrovnik. He received his education in Belgrade (1888), Vienna and in Berlin (1898), where he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation entitled Die Vegetationsverhaltnisse Ostserbiens. His professors were Anton Kerner von Marilaun and Adolf Engler.

After graduation, Adamović worked as a Royal Serbian School Board high school teacher in the various towns in southern Serbia, such as Zaječar, Pirot, Gornji Milanovac and Vranje. From 1901 to 1905 Adamović was director of the Jevremovac Botanical Garden of the University of Belgrade. He lived temporarily in Vienna and Italy. Adamović was a private lecturer in phytogeography at the University of Vienna. In 1907, as an associate member of the Yugoslav Academy of Science and Arts and Sciences in Zagreb, he published papers on the flora of Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro.

Scientific work

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Adamović mainly dealt with the vegetation of the Balkan Peninsula. In his time he was one of the best experts in the vegetation and flora of Southeast Europe and has written fundamental works on the subject. In the mentor Richard Wettstein, he had an important advocate for his research stays in the regions of the Danube lowlands, Romania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Thrace, Thessaly, as well as the Apennine Peninsula, through which he got a comprehensive knowledge of the plant formations of Southeast Europe and the Mediterranean region. In particular, his knowledge of the flora and vegetation of Dalmatia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania were fundamental. Adamović coined the terms Šibljak and pseudomacchie for shrubbery formations of these karst countries of the Dinarides, which have found their way into the terminology of vegetation geography.

From 1896 to 1910, he was the editor of the exsiccata work "Plantae balcanicae exsiccatae".[5] Adamović made valuable contributions to Volume 11, "The Vegetation Conditions of the Balkans" (1909),[6] and also contributions involving Hieracium towards Adolf Engler and Carl Georg Oscar Drude's Die Vegetation der Erde [7] or "The Vegetation of the Earth."[8]

Adamović's most important floristic work was the processing of the flora of Montenegro (Građa za floru kraljevine Crne Gore), which was not mentioned in Czech botanist Joseph Rohlena's Conspectus Florae montenegrinae or in August von Hayek's Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Balcanicae. Between 1905 and 1911 Adamović made various trips for this flora of Montenegro, collecting several times on the Orjen, Komovi and Durmitor around 1000 documents of the flora of the southeastern Dinaric region. Adamović was the only botanist in Montenegro after Josif Pančić to collect plants again on the Velika Jastrebica in the Bijela gora. He published more than 60 scientific papers and books and described some new plant species and taxa.>[9]

After retirement, he returned to Dubrovnik, where he died in 1935, at the time of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Today Lujo Adamović is considered one of stellar botanist of Serbia of the 19th and 20th century, including Josif Pančić, Sava Petrović, Sava Hilandarac, Nedeljko Košanin, Teodor Soška, and others.[10]

Major works

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The most significant work in his opus is—The Vegetation Conditions of the Balkans (Die Vegetationsverhältnisse der Balkanländer, 1909 & 1916)[11]—now considered one of the classic works of the science of vegetation formations. Also important are:

  • Die pflanzengeographische Stellung und Gliederung Italiens/The geographical position and structure of Italy, 1933[12]
  • Revisio glumacearum Serbicarum, 1930[13]
  • Vegetationsbilder aus Dalmatien/Pictures of vegetation from Dalmatia, 1904[14]
  • Die Verbreitung der Holzgewächse in den dinarischen Ländern/The spread of woody plants in the Dinaric countries, 1910 & 1913[15]
  • Vegetationsbilder aus Mazedonien/Vegetation pictures from Macedonia, 1913[16]
  • De la végétation du sud de la Serbie/The Vegetation of southern Serbia, 1909[17]

The standard author abbreviation Adamović is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[18]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Elsie, Robert (March 31, 2014). Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer: A Transylvanian Baron at the Birth of Albanian Independence The Memoirs of Franz Nopcsa. Central European University Press. ISBN 9786155225802 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Adamović, Lujo (April 17, 1933). "pflanzengeographische Stellung und Gliederung Italiens" – via agris.fao.org. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ Adamović, Lujo (April 17, 1911). "Pflanzenwelt Dalmatiens" – via agris.fao.org. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ^ Сарић, Милоје Р. (April 17, 1997). Живот и дело српских научника. Српска академија наука и уметности. ISBN 9788670254015 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Plantae balcanicae exsiccatae: IndExs ExsiccataID=880763264". IndExs - Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
  6. ^ Öztürk, Münir; Hakeem, Khalid Rehman; Faridah-Hanum, I.; Efe, Recep (May 5, 2015). Climate Change Impacts on High-Altitude Ecosystems. Springer. ISBN 9783319128597 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Engler, Adolf; Adamović, Lujo V.; Drude, Oscar (April 17, 1909). "Die Vegetation der Erde: Sammlung pflanzengeographischer Monographien". W. Engelmann – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Allaby, Michael (April 17, 2010). Plants: Food, Medicine, and the Green Earth. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 9781438129679 – via Google Books.
  9. ^ Tsekos, Ioannes; Moustakas, Michael (December 6, 2012). Progress in Botanical Research: Proceedings of the 1st Balkan Botanical Congress. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9789401152747 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ Đurić, Piše: M. (4 February 2018). "Herbarijum Josifa Pančića". Dnevni list Danas.
  11. ^ Adamovic, Lujo (April 17, 1909). "Die Vegetationsverhältnisse der Balkanländer (Mösische Länder) umfassend Serbien, Altserbien, Bulgarien, Ostrumelien, Nordthrakien und Nordmazedonien". Engelmann – via Google Books.
  12. ^ Adamović, Lujo (April 17, 1933). "Die pflanzengeographische Stellung und Gliederung Italiens: mit 31 pflanzengeograph. Originalkarten des Verfassers". G. Fischer – via Google Books.
  13. ^ Adamović, Lujo (April 17, 1904). "Revisio Glumacearum serbicarum". Pallas Részvénytársaság Nyomdája – via Google Books.
  14. ^ Adamović, Lujo (April 17, 1910). "Vegetationsbilder aus Dalmatien". Fischer – via Google Books.
  15. ^ Adamovic, Lujo (1913). "Die Verbreitung der Holzgewächse in den dinarischen Ländern ..." – via books.google.ca.
  16. ^ Adamovič, Lujo (1916). "Vegetationsbilder aus Mazedonien" – via books.google.ca.
  17. ^ Adamović, Lujo (1892). "De la végétation du sud de la Serbie" – via books.google.ca.
  18. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Adamović.
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