Friedrich Carl Lehmann
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| Born | 27 November 1850 |
| Died | November 23, 1903 (aged 52) |
| Nationality | German |
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Friedrich Carl Lehmann (27 November 1850 – 23 November 1903) was a German Consul to Colombia, mining engineer, amateur botanist and mycologist, and botanical collector.
Career[edit]
Lehmann conducted explorations in search of specimens of flora in the countries of Ecuador and Colombia over three decades, sending collected material to herbaria in Berlin-Dahlem, Kew, and Saint Petersburg. In 1903 he led an expedition to Popayán, Colombia, and passed through most of the provinces of Ecuador, in a search for orchids.[1] He died reportedly of drowning in the Timbique River but his obituarist Kränzlin noted that it was not known if it was by "an unhappy accident or by malice".[1]
Family[edit]
Lehmann married Maria Josefa de Mosquera in Colombia and settled in Popayan. His grandson, Federico Carlos Lehmann Valencia (1914–1974), was a Colombian ornithologist.
Legacy[edit]
Friedrich Carl Lehmann is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of snake, Atractus lehmanni,[2] which is endemic to Colombia and Ecuador.[3] Also, in 1895, botanist Ernest Friedrich Gilg published a genus of flowering plants from Columbia and Peru (belonging to the family Gentianaceae) as Lehmanniella in his honour.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Obituary". The Gardener's Chronicle. 3. 35: 106–107. 1904.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Lehmann, F. C.", p. 154).
- ^ Species Atractus lehmanni at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ "Lehmanniella Gilg | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
External links[edit]
- "Author Details for Friedrich Carl Lehmann" (HTML). International Plant Names Index. International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI).
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