George Edward Post

George Edward Post
Born(1838-12-17)December 17, 1838
New York City, US
DiedSeptember 30, 1909(1909-09-30) (aged 70)
Beirut, Syria
EducationUniversity College of New York
Occupations
FatherAlfred Charles Post
AwardsOrder of the Red Eagle

George Edward Post (1838–1909) was an American surgeon, academic and botanist.

Biography

George Edward Post was born in New York City on December 17, 1838, the son of Alfred Charles Post.[1][2]

He was a Professor of Surgery at the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut, which became the American University of Beirut (AUB).[3] He had originally graduated from University College of New York.[4]

During 1860, he worked as a missionary doctor in Syria.[5]

He later published 18 articles in Arabic, including Arabic Dictionary of the Holy Bible, Classification and Study of Principles of Plant Physiology and Function and Rules of How to Succeed and translated two texts from Arabic into English.[4] Post published broadly in the areas of natural history, medicine, and theology.[6] Post formally described 221 taxa, and published an extensive volume on the Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai in 1896. He was also one of the contributors to Smith's Bible Dictionary, in 1893.[7] Later, a new and revised edition of Post's seminal work was published posthumously in 1932–1933 by John Edward Dinsmore, entitled Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai: Volume 1: A Handbook of The Flowering Plants and Ferns, Native and Naturalized From The Taurus to Ras Muhammad And From the Mediterranean Sea to The Syrian Desert, Vol I and II,[8][9] and which includes a description of many new plants, including Iris hermona.[10]

In 1875, Pierre Edmond Boissier and Charles Isidore Blanche published Postia (in the Asteraceae family), it is now a synonym of Rhanteriopsis lanuginosa.[11] Then in 1985, botanist Evgeniy Vasilyevich Kljuykov published Postiella, which is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Apiaceae and named in Post's honour.[12][13]

For his work as a surgeon and missionary, he received the Order of the Red Eagle from the Kingdom of Prussia.[2]

He died in Beirut on September 30, 1909.[2]

The standard author abbreviation Post is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[14]

References

  1. ^ Herringshaw, Thomas William, ed. (1914). Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography. Vol. IV. American Publishers Association. p. 493. Retrieved July 23, 2020 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b c "George Edward Post Dead". The Sun. October 1, 1909. p. 6. Retrieved July 23, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Kelly, Howard A.; Burrage, Walter L. (eds.). "Post, Alfred Charles" . American Medical Biographies . Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company.
  4. ^ a b Mounir(Munir) E Nassar, M.D., FACP Clinical Medicine Research History at the American University of Beirut, Faculty of Medicine (120-1974), p. 6, at Google Books
  5. ^ Jessup, Henry Harris (1910). Fifty Three Years in Syria - Volume I. Read Books Limited. ISBN 9781528760065. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  6. ^ L.J. Musselman and N.S. Saoud, 2004. The Type Specimens of George Edward Post in Beirut and Geneva Archived 2017-08-14 at the Wayback Machine. Turkish Journal of Botany, 28, 155-160.
  7. ^ Robert E. Thompson A History of the Presbyterian Churches in the United States, p. 21, at Google Books
  8. ^ "Flora of Syria, Palestine, And Sinai". abebooks.com. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
  9. ^ "Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai..." ipni.org. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
  10. ^ "Iridaceae Iris hermona Dinsm". ipni.org (International Plant Names Index). Retrieved October 24, 2016.
  11. ^ "Postia lanuginosa Boiss. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved September 14, 2022.
  12. ^ "Postiella Kljuykov | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
  13. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  14. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Post.

Further reading

Media related to George Edward Post at Wikimedia Commons

  • Jessup, H. H., 1910. Fifty-three years in Syria. New York: Fleming H. Revell. 2 volumes.
  • Khoury, G.Y., 1992. The founding fathers of the American University of Beirut biographies. Beirut: American University of Beirut. Pp 232 (English), 215 (Arabic).
  • Musselman, L.J., 2006. The botanical activities of George Edward Post (1838-1909). Archives of Natural History 33(2): 282-301.