Johann Georg Siegesbeck

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Johann Georg Siegesbeck (* 1686 in Merseburg , † 1755 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German doctor and botanist . From 1735 he was a demonstrator of the Botanical Garden in Saint Petersburg and professor of botany at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Siegesb. "

Live and act

Siegesbeck was a systematist and outspoken opponent of the Linneischen system, which classifies the plant world on the basis of the reproductive organs . Siegesbeck argued less on the basis of scientific findings and more with virtue and fear of God, which for the social conditions of the time were both politically correct and irrevocable. Excerpt from Botanosophiae : “[...] Who would like to believe that God established such abhorrent fornication in the kingdom of plants? Who could expose such an unchaste system to the academic youth without causing offense? "

The enmity between Siegesbeck and Linné was deep and expressed itself in many ways. So even today an insignificant weed classified by Linné is known as Sigesbeckia serrata ( Siegesbeckie ). Siegesbeck, on the other hand, took advantage of his position in Saint Petersburg to block the delivery of Russian and Siberian plants to the research community around Linnaeus.

Siegesbeck's 15 volume herbarium with copies almost 300 years old is kept in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel .

Honor taxon

Carl von Linné named the genus Sigesbeckia of the sunflower plant family (Asteraceae) after him .

Works

  • Dissertationem inauguralem medico botanicam de rorella . Wittenberg 1716 - Dissertation under Adam Brendel
  • Schediasma philosophico-astronomicum de vero systemate cosmico ad hunc diem nondum perspecto ac cognito; quo non solum hypothesium tam Ptolemaicae, quam Tychonicae, sed et praecipue Copernicanae ... immo mathematica evolutione, fallere nescia, clare evincitur ac demonstratur. Operis majoris prodromus . Helmstedt 1732
  • Chronologiae verioris specimen, quo aequinoctium vernum ... Helmstedt 1735
  • Propempticum medico-botanicum de Maianthemo lilium convallium officinis vulgo nuncupato, quo lectiones ac demonstrationes botanicas per aestatem anni MDCCXXXVI. horis pomeridianis tam in horto medico Petriburgensi quam in locis campestribus suscipiendas botanophilis significare eosque ad has ipsas officiose invitare voluit Io. Georgius Siegesbeck, md et pt horti eiusdem praefectus . Saint Petersburg 1736
  • Primitiae florae Petropolitanae sive catalogus plantarum tam indigenarum quam exoticarum, quibus instructus fuit hortus medicus Petriburgensis per annum MDCCXXXVI . Riga 1736
  • Botanosophiae verioris breuis sciagraphia in vsum discentiumadornata: accedit ob argumenti analogiam, epicrisis in clar. Linnaei nuperrime euulgatum systema plantarum sexuale, et huic superstructam methodum botanicam . Saint Petersburg 1737
  • Vaniloquentiae botanicae specimen, a M. Jo. Gottlieb Gleditsch in consideratione Epicriseos Siegesbeckianae in scripta botanica Linnaei, pro rite obtinendo sexualistae titulo, nuper evulgatum, jure vero retorsionis refutatum et elusum . Saint Petersburg 1741

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from Karl Mägdefrau p. 71.
  2. ^ Carl von Linné: Critica Botanica . Leiden 1737, p. 94
  3. ↑ Carl von Linné: Genera Plantarum . Leiden 1742, p. 411

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personal data
SURNAME Siegesbeck, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1686
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH 1755
Place of death St. Petersburg