Adalbert Geheeb

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Geheeb's birthplace in Geisa

Adalbert Geheeb (born March 21, 1842 in Geisa ; † September 13, 1909 in Königsfelden / Switzerland) was a German pharmacist , botanist and moss researcher. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Go. "

Live and act

The son of a pharmacist attended grammar school in Eisenach and began training as a pharmacist in Coburg in 1858 . He then worked in Bruchsal , among other places , where he made the acquaintance of Wilhelm Schimper . During his assistant years in Switzerland, he went on botanical excursions. He then studied pharmacy in Jena in 1864 and took over his father's pharmacy in Geisa in 1867. In 1897 he sold the pharmacy and moved to Freiburg im Breisgau.

In his spare time he was occupied with the nature and landscape of the Rhön and above all with botany and especially with mosses . Geheeb was internationally recognized as a bryologist and corresponded with leading botanists in Europe. Around a dozen species of moss were named after him. He has summarized his botanical knowledge in the “Botanical Notes” in the “Rhön Guide”.

In 1909 he wrote to Ernst Haeckel : "My European moss herbarium comprises 1,300 species, represented in around 50,000 different forms". The herbarium was destroyed by a bomb attack in Berlin in 1943. Geheeb published more than 80 scientific papers and provided his books with numerous excellent illustrations that are still of inestimable value for bryology today.

Geheeb's letters are in Paul Geheeb's estate in the Ecole d'Humanité in Goldern (Switzerland), in the Haeckel-Haus in Jena and in the Herbarium Senckenbergianum in Frankfurt am Main.

Geheeb co-founded the Rhön Club in Gersfeld in 1876 and headed the Geisa local club for many years.

His son Paul Geheeb was a well-known reform pedagogue .

Honors

In 1869 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

The Royal Botanical Society in London awarded him an honorary doctorate and made him a corresponding member.

The moss genus “ Geheebia ” and the deciduous moss Brachythecium geebii were named in his honor.

Fonts

  • 1864: The mosses of the Canton of Aargau, with special consideration of the geognostic conditions and the phanorogam flora. Aarau, Sauerland.
  • 1886: A look into the flora of Dovrefjeld. Cassel.
  • 1889: New contributions to the moss flora of New Guinea. Cassel, fisherman.
  • 1898: Further contributions to the moss flora of New Guinea.
    • I. About the mosses which Dr. O. Beccari collected in the years 1872–73 and 1875 in New Guinea, especially the Arfak Mountains .
    • II. About some mosses from western Borneo. Stuttgart, Nägele.
  • 1901: The Milseburg in the Rhön Mountains and their moss flora. A contribution to the knowledge of the moss of this mountain. Fulda, Uth.
  • 1904: My memories of great naturalists. Self-experienced and retold. Eisenach, bald.
  • 1910: Bryologia atlantica. The mosses of the Atlantic islands (excluding the European and Arctic regions). Stuttgart.

About Geheeb

  • 2003: Our Rhön as a cultural landscape. Commemorative tape of the commemorative event honoring the scientific achievements of the Geisa pharmacist, moss researcher and artist on November 16, 2002 in the mountain inn "Eisenacher Haus" am Ellenbogen. Kaltensundheim. News from the Rhön Biosphere Reserve, Supplement 5.
  • 2009: Moosbotaniker Adalbert Geheeb, Martin Stolzenau in "Buchenblätter", supplement of the Fuldaer Zeitung for Heimatfreunde No. 24 of December 15, 2009 p. 95

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geheeb, Adalbert . In: Wolfgang-Hagen Hein, Holm-Dietmar Schwarz (eds.): German pharmacist biography . tape 1 . Wissenschaftliche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-8047-0518-9 , p. 193 .
  2. ^ Index Collectorum. Herbarii Senckenbergiani
  3. ↑ Member entry of Adelbert Geheeb (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 23, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Geheeb, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and moss researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Geisa
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1909
Place of death Koenigsfelden , Switzerland