Organisation(s)
ANK, B, BM, BP, BR, C, CGE, DBN, E, FI, FI-W, FR, G, G-BOIS, G-DEL, GB, GOET, GRO, H, HAL, JE, K, KIEL, L, LE, LZ, M, MANCH, MW, NA, NCY, NY, OXF, P, PAD, PC, PI, PR, PRC, STU, TSM, W, WAG
Countries
Europe: Greece, Hungary, Croatia, Italy, Germany, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, AustriaWestern Asia: Iraq, Turkey, Iran
Associate(s)
Hohenacker, Rudolph Friedrich (1798-1874) (co-collector)
Noe, W. (synonym)
Tommasini, Muzio Guiseppe Spirito de (Mutius Joseph Spiritus) (1794-1879) (co-collector)
Biography
Botanist from Berlin who later lived in Istanbul. Friedrich Wilhelm Noë (occasionally spelt Noé) appears to have been from an Austrian family and worked for many years as a pharmacist in Fiume. At that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it is now the Croatian city of Rijeka. In 1844 he travelled to Turkey on a mission to collect plants for the herbarium of the King of Saxony, although he never returned, instead settling in Istanbul. Here he was appointed by the Sultan (Beyazit 11) to teach botany at the Galata Serai (Galataseray) Imperial School of Medicine and also to direct their botanic garden. In time he was put in charge of all of the natural history collections. Noë undertook a great number of expeditions, both in central and southern Europe and in the Middle East. Travelling and collecting until around 1854 he used his own plant specimens to begin a herbarium at the college. Such expeditions included a trip he took with the Sultan to Balkan Karna to collect plants and a journey to Mount Olympus on which he discovered gold. In Lake Van turkey Noë was responsible for the discovery of the fritillary Fritillaria kurdica Boiss. and Noë.
Sources:
Gardener, 1847, "Extract of a letter from Mr. Gardener", London Journal of Botany, 6: 50
Fritillaria crassifolia subsp. kurdica, Fritillaria Icones:
http://www.fritillariaicones.com/icones/kurdica.html.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 460; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 49, 65; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. N-R (1983): 599;
