ENDLICHER, entliK-er, STEPHAN LADI LAUS (180-1-49). A distinguished Austrian bot anist and Sinologist, born at Pressburg. Elm gary. Ile was educated in his native town, and at the universities of Pest and Vienna. and entered the Church, which career, however, he abandoned after a few years. In 1827 he began his botan ical and linguistic studies, and the following year he was placed in charge of the manuscript department of the Imperial Library at. Vienna. in 1836 he was appointed curator of the botan ical department of the Royal Natural History Museum at Vienna, and in 1840 he became pro fessor of botany in the university and director of the Botanic garden. Together with Etting himself and others, he took a prominent part in the establishment of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. End 1 ieher's publications were prin cipally upon systematic botany, upon the study of which subject he exerted a considerable influence. Some of his works are: Mora Paso a ienSiS (1830) ; Grundzage eincr ?warn Thco•ie der Pllanzenzengung (1838) ; Grand:nye der Butunik, with Unger as co-author (1843) ; .Synop
sis Conifcrarum (1847). His most important con. tribution to botany was his elaboration of the natural system of classification of plants, an nounced in Genera Plantarum Secundum Ordines Naturales Disposita (1836-50), and in Enehirid ion Botanicam Exhibcns Classes et Ordines Ma terna' (1841). In connection with Inge] and Nees von Esenbeck, Endlicher edited several important botanical works dealing with descriptions of for eign plants preserved in the Vienna Botanical Garden. Endlicher's study of classical and Oriental history and literature resulted in the publication of important contributions to the knowledge of these subjects, among which may he cited: Anfanysgriinde der ehinesischca Gram matik (1845) ; Ver:.-eichnis der rhinesiseJten japanesischen Aliinzen des kaiscrliehen Nun: end An tikrnkabincts (1837 ) ; and Artalecta Grammatice, with Eichenfeld as co-author (1837).