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József Sadler
Born6 May 1791 Edit this on Wikidata
Bratislava Edit this on Wikidata
Died12 March 1849 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 57)
OccupationBotanist, botanical collector, curator Edit this on Wikidata

József Sadler (May 6, 1791 – March 12, 1849) was a Hungarian physician and botanist. He studied the plants of the Budapest region, and served as a curator of natural history at the Hungarian National Museum. As a professor of botany at the medical school in the University of Pest, he influenced numerous Hungarian naturalists.

Sadler was born in Bratislava in a family of modest means. After completing high school studies, Sadler became a pharmacist's assistant at the pharmacy of the Order of Mercy. He completed a pharmacy course at the University of Pest and received a master's degree in 1810. He also studied philosophy from 1810 to 1914 and medicine at Pest from 1812 to 1819. Sadler became an assistant to Károly Konstantin Haberle. He became a doctor of medicine in 1820. He was also made assistant keeper of the natural history collection at the National Museum. In 1832 he became an assistant professor of botany at the University of Pest becoming a full professor two years later. He also taught chemistry briefly.[1] His students included the botanist Josif Pančić[2] and the physician Ignaz Semmelweis.[3]

Sadler was a member of the Moscow naturalists association, the Weimar mineralogical society and the Regensburg herbal society. Sadler collected plants extensively from the Budapest region.[4][5] He edited two exsiccatae, namely A' Magyar Plánták' szárított Gyüjteménye. Collectio plantarum siccatum Hungariae (1823–1830) and Agrostotheca Hungarica (1836–1841).[6][7] The plant species Potentilla sadleri and Ferula sadleriana and the genus Sadleria were named after him.

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  1. ^ János, Halmai (1971). "A Pesti Tudományegyetem Néhány Kiváló Gyógyszerész-tanítványa És-professzora". Comm. Hist. Artis Med. 57–59: 303–310.
  2. ^ Dinić, Anka (2012). "The most important researchers of forests in Serbia". Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. 5: 103–122.
  3. ^ Szállási Árpád (1 July 1992). "Sadler József orvos botanikus a XIX. század első felében". Orvosi Hetilap. 133 (30): 1912–1913. eISSN 1788-6120. ISSN 0030-6002.
  4. ^ Nagy, Károly Menyhért; Malatinszky, Ákos (2019-02-13). "Unique botanical values in a metropolitan area and the landscape history reasons of their occurrence on the Széchenyi Hill, Budapest". Nature Conservation. 32: 35–50. doi:10.3897/natureconservation.32.30807. ISSN 1314-3301.
  5. ^ Balogh, Lajos (2023). "Overview of the research history of the higher flora of Vas County (Western Hungary)". Acta Biologica Plantarum Agriensis. 11 (1): 158–192. doi:10.21406/abpa.2023.11.1.158.
  6. ^ "A' Magyar Plánták' szárított Gyüjteménye. Collectio plantarum siccatum Hungariae: IndExs ExsiccataID=2007379711". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
  7. ^ "Agrostotheca Hungarica: IndExs ExsiccataID=624953472". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
  8. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Sadler.