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Joseph Rock

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Joseph Rock, full name Joseph Francis Charles Rock, (1884-1962) was an Austrian-American List of explorers|explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist. He was born in Vienna, Austria but moved to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1907, where he became an authority on the flora (plants)|flora of these islands.

In the period 1922-1949 he spent most of his time studying the flora, peoples and languages of southwest China, mainly in Yunnan, Sichuan, southwest Gansu and eastern Tibet. Many Asian plants that he collected can be seen in the Arnold Arboretum. After 1949 he returned to Honolulu where he died in 1962.

Among the plants he discovered is the spectacular Rock's Peony Paeonia rockii, and many new rhododendrons. The standard botanical author abbreviation Rock is applied to plants he named.

He also produced a 1,094-page dictionary and two history|histories of the Nakhi people and language of northwestern Yunnan.

The standard Binomial nomenclature#Authorship in scientific names|botanical author abbreviation Rock is applied to species he described.

See also Gongga Shan, a mountain in Sichuan which (due to poor measuring equipment) he erroneously thought for a time to be the highest in the world.





  • http://oasis.harvard.edu/html/ajp00007frames.html Harvard University papers on Joseph Rock

  • http://international.loc.gov/intldl/naxihtml/rock.html Rock's contribution to the study of the Naxi language


Category:Austrian botanists|Rock, Joseph
Category:American botanists|Rock, Joseph
Category:Botanists active in China|Rock, Joseph
Category:Botanists active in the Pacific|Rock, Joseph
Category:Botanists studying algae|Rock, Joseph
Category:Botanists studying spermatophytes|Rock, Joseph
Category:Botanists with author abbreviations|Rock, Joseph
Category:Austrian explorers|Rock, Joseph
Category:American explorers|Rock, Joseph
Category:Linguists|Rock, Joseph
Category:1884 births|Rock, Joseph
Category:1962 deaths|Rock, Joseph

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