Adolf Wilhelm Ferdinand Schmidt

Adolf Wilhelm Ferdinand Schmidt (born August 29, 1812 in Berlin ; † June 28, 1899 in Aschersleben ) was a German naturalist and Protestant clergyman . His botanical author abbreviation is " AWFSchmidt ".

Life

education and profession

Adolf Wilhelm Ferdinand Schmidt, son of the pastor from Teltow , who was transferred to Derenburg near Halberstadt in 1817 , attended the Martineum in Braunschweig , then the cathedral grammar school in Halberstadt, before taking the final exam there at Easter 1832 . Schmidt, who was gifted with drawing, then completed a degree in theology at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg .

Subsequently, Adolf Wilhelm Ferdinand Schmidt held a position as an educator in the house of Lord von Helldorf in Bedra near Merseburg for several years , until he moved to Halberstadt as an assistant preacher and drawing teacher at the cathedral high school. In 1846 he was elected as a deacon at St. Stephen's Church in Aschersleben, and in 1848 he took up the post of archdeacon there, succeeding Pastor Sachse , which the committed pastor held until he retired in 1895.

Scientific research

Adolf Wilhelm Ferdinand Schmidt, who was interested in natural science, dealt with mineralogical studies during his time in Halberstadt and for this purpose collected fossils in the sandstone . In Aschersleben, he initially devoted himself to zoology in the group of pharmacists Hornung and Rector Lübe , where he stood out primarily through contributions to land snails . From the mid- 1860s he turned to botany to and achieved scientific fame particularly by his inquiries into the diatoms , the diatoms.

Publications

• The sexual apparatus of the stylommatophores in taxonomic terms , 1855
• System of European clausilies and their closest relatives , Theodor Fischer, Cassel 1868, digitized
• (As editor): Atlas der Diatomeenkunde , Ernst Schlegel, Aschersleben 1875–1876, (12 issues), digitized version

literature

• Karl Wilhelm Dalla Torre , Paul Wilhelm Magnus , Ludwig Sarthein Graf von: Flora of the princes of Tyrol, the state of Vorarlberg and the Principality of Liechtenstein: Volume The literature of the flora of Tyrol, Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein. 1900. In: Volume 1 of flora of the princes of Tyrol, the state of Vorarlberg and the Principality of Liechtenstein: edited according to own and third-party observations, collections and literature sources, Karl Wilhelm Dalla Torre. Wagner'sche Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1900, p. 267.
• New York Botanical Garden. Library, John Hendley Barnhart: Biographical notes upon botanists, Volume 3. In: Biographical Notes Upon Botanists, GK Hall, 1965, p. 173.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Wilhelm Ferdinand Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library