Ferdinand Arnold (botanist)
Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold (born February 24, 1828 in Ansbach ; † August 8, 1901 in Munich ) was a German botanist who was particularly concerned with lichens ( lichenology ). Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Arnold ".
Arnold attended the Latin school in Eichstätt and from 1841 to 1845 the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . Even as a schoolboy he was interested in botany and was actively collecting in the Munich area. From 1846 he studied law in Munich and Heidelberg with the state examination in 1853 and worked as a lawyer in Ansbach , Muggendorf and Eichstätt from 1857 to 1877 and then in Munich until 1896. Most recently he was a higher regional judge .
In addition, he dealt with botany, first with vascular plants , later with mosses and lichens. He was a student of Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius and Otto Sendtner , Alexander Braun , Karl Friedrich Schimper , Ph. Von Zwackh and August von Krempelhuber .
Among other things, he published about lichens of the Franconian Jura (in Flora , 1881 to 1885) and alpine lichens in Tyrol ( Lichenological excursions in Tyrol ). Starting in 1864, he made annual trips to Tyrol (including South Tyrol and the neighboring Trento) to collect.
In 1878 he received an honorary doctorate in Munich. He was a founding member of the Bavarian Botanical Society. In 1883 he became a member of the Leopoldina .
Arnold published exsiccate collections and contributed, for example, to that of Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst .
His herbarium of around 120,000 specimens of lichens and 30,000 of other groups of plants and fungi went to the Botanical State Collection in Munich. Arnold collected mainly in Bavaria and the Alps, but he also came into possession of many foreign specimens through exchange.
tomb
The tomb of Ferdinand Arnold is located in the Old South Cemetery in Munich (burial ground 14 - Series 2 - 2nd place) Location .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Leitschuh, Max: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vols., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 4, p. 32
- ^ Member entry of Ferdinand Arnold at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 17, 2015.
- ^ Lichen collection of the Bavarian State Collection
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| SURNAME | Arnold, Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arnold, Ferdinand Christian Gustav (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1828 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ansbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 1901 |
| Place of death | Munich |