Heinrich Göppert (botanist)

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Heinrich Göppert
Heinrich Göppert

Johann Heinrich Robert Göppert (born July 25, 1800 in Sprottau , † May 18, 1884 in Breslau ) was a Prussian , German botanist , paleontologist , doctor and university professor. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Göpp. "

His parents were the pharmacist and senator Heinrich Göppert († 1843) and his wife Therese Sallmann .

Live and act

Göppert did an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Sprottau and Neiße , before studying medicine at the universities of Breslau and Berlin from 1821 . During his studies in Breslau he joined the Breslau fraternity , which is why he was de-registered from the university. In 1826 he settled as a doctor in Breslau, completed his habilitation the following year in medicine and botany, and in 1831 was appointed professor of botany and curator at the Botanical Garden and as a teacher at the surgical school in Breslau. In 1830 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

In 1839 he became a full professor of botany and in 1852 director of the botanical garden. In 1854 he was elected a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Many of Göppert's numerous scientific works deal with the life phenomena of plants, especially with the life of trees. His greatest merit, however, lies in the field of palaeobotany , of which Göppert was one of the most important representatives in the 19th century. In the later years of his life, Heinrich Göppert devoted himself particularly to researching the flora of Baltic amber . He was a member of the editorial team of the botanical journal Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe published by Louis van Houtte .

After his death, his extensive amber collection became the property of the still young West Prussian Provincial Museum in Danzig .

The cities of Breslau and Sprottau granted him honorary citizenship. He was an honorary member of the natural research society in Bamberg and in 1881 was one of the founding philistines of the Academic Pharmaceutical Association at the University of Breslau, later the Corps Frisia Breslau. In 1880 he received the Cothenius Medal of the Leopoldina .

family

He was married twice. His first wife was Maria Remer in 1830 , a daughter of Professor Wilhelm Hermann Georg Remer . She died shortly after the wedding in 1831. After her death, he married her younger sister Wilhelmine Remer on June 30, 1835 . The couple had several children including:

  • Maria (1836-1850)
  • Heinrich (1838–1882) ∞ Gertrud Landsberg
  • Emmi (* 1848)

The Physics Nobel Prize laureate Maria Goeppert-Mayer is his great-granddaughter.

Fonts

  • De acidi hydrocyanici vi in ​​plantas commentatio , Jos. Max, Vratislaviae 1827 google books
  • About the development of heat in the plants, their freezing and the means of protection against the same , Josef Max, Breslau 1830 google books
  • About the development of heat in the living plant. A lecture given in Vienna on September 18, 1832 in the Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Doctors , Carl Gerold, Vienna 1832 Archives
  • The fossil ferns . 1836.
  • De floribus in statu fossili . 1837.
  • De coniferarum structura anatomica . 1841.
  • The genera of fossil plants compared with those of the present day . 1841-42.
  • Observations about the so-called overburdening of the fir trees . 1842.
  • About the chemical antidotes, for use by doctors, surgeons and pharmacists, as well as for academic lectures: with 1 tab. Max, Berlin 2nd edition 1843 Digitized edition of the University and State Library of Düsseldorf
  • With Georg Carl Berendt : The organic remains of the prehistoric world in amber. First volume. I. Division. The amber and the remains of plants in it from the prehistoric world. Nicolai , Berlin 1845 ( archive )
  • For knowledge of the balanophores in particular of the genus Rhopalocnemis Jungh. Wroclaw 1847.
  • Treatises on the origin of coal deposits from plants . 1848.
  • Treatise on the nature of the fossil flora in different coal deposits of one and the same area . 1849.
  • Monograph of the fossil conifers compared to those of the present world . 1850, with 58 plates.
  • Contributions to the tertiary flora of Silesia . 1852.
  • The tertiary flora of the island of Java, described and discussed in relation to the total flora of the tertiary period after the discoveries of Mr. Fr. Junghuhn. 's-Gravenhage 1854. [First description of the extinct flora of a tropical country].
  • Contributions to the knowledge of the Dracäneen , Breslau 1854 Archives
  • The tertiary flora of Schossnitz in Silesia . 1855.
  • The tertiary flora on the island of Java, described and discussed in relation to the total flora of the tertiary period after the discoveries of Mr. Fr. Junghuhn, Elberfeld 1857 Archive
  • About the fossil flora of the Silurian, Devonian and lower coal formations . 1860.
  • The fossil flora of the Permian Formation , Theodor Fischer, Cassel 1864–65 Archives
  • About Aphyllostachys, a new fossil plant genus, and the relationship between fossil flora and Darwin's theory of transmutation . 1866.
  • The structural relationships of hard coal . 1867.
  • Sketches for knowledge of the primeval forests of Silesia and Bohemia , E. Blochmann & Sohn, Dresden 1868 Archives
  • About inscriptions and signs in living trees , Breslau 1869 Archives
  • Over the grooves of the plant kingdom . 1869.
  • About the internal processes involved in grafting trees and bushes . 1874.
  • About freezing . 1883.
  • The flora of amber . With Anton Menge , 1883, 2 vols.
  • The dry rot . 1885.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Heinrich Robert Göppert  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Heinrich Robert Göppert at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Heinrich Göppert at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 3, 2016.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Neubert: Van Houtte's price list and his Flore des Serres et des Jardins de L'Europe. In: German magazine for garden and flower science - magazine for garden and flower friends, and gardeners. Volume 6, Hoffmann'sche Verlags-Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1853, p. 369
  4. ^ K. Hinrichs: Bernstein, the Prussian gold in art and natural history chambers and museums of the 16th - 20th centuries. Dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin 2007
  5. ↑ Honorary members of the natural research society in Bamberg, status May 1860 In: Fifth report of the natural research society in Bamberg, Reindl, Bamberg 1861 p. V-VI archive
  6. ↑ Bernd-A. Kahe, Alfred Priemeier, Ernst Battmer, Nils Höpken: Corps lists of the Braunschweig Seniors' Convent in the WSC , Frisia Breslau, No. 15. Braunschweig, 1990.
personal data
SURNAME Göppert, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Göppert, Johann Heinrich Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist, paleontologist, doctor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Sprottau
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1884
Place of death Wroclaw