Aimé Constant Fidèle Henry

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Aimé Constant Fidèle Henry (also Aimé Constantin Fidelius Henry , born June 13, 1801 in Douai , † February 23, 1875 in Bonn ) was a French-born lithographer , bookseller, publisher, botanist and naturalist working in Bonn in the 19th century . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Henry ".

Life

Aimé Henry was the son of a member of the French Revolutionary Army Charles Albert Joseph Henry (1773-1816) and Anna Rebecca Mayer (1772-1830) from Kleinbroich, who was born in Kaiserswerth. Aimé Henry came to the Kingdom of Prussia in Düsseldorf around 1816 and was trained as a lithographer at Compagnie Arnz & Winckelmann , which was active in the publishing industry, from 1817 and was later employed. After his training and the subsequent work for Arnz & Comp. Aimé Henry later founded their own lithographic institute on November 24, 1828 together with Maximilian Cohen (* July 4, 1806 in Bonn; † November 10, 1865 in Bonn) in Bonn, and a few months later set up with him on July 15, 1829 the Sternenstraße 308 (today Sternstraße 28) a shop consisting of a lithographic institute, an art shop and a writing and drawing materials shop. In 1833 the company received the title of "Lithographic Institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität" and on May 6, 1835, although neither of the two business partners was a trained bookseller, the bookseller's license was granted. Around 1840 the company moved to new premises at Markt 453 (today No. 24). On December 31, 1861, the company was split up and Henry ran the book, art, and lithography institute at Remigiusstrasse 45 from that point on. His second oldest son, Carl Johann Hubert Henry, continued this institute until 1894. Both the university bookstore and publisher Friedrich Cohen and the Bouvier Verlag have their origins in the establishment of a business by Maximilian Cohen and Aimé Henry in 1828.

Aimé Constant Fidèle Henry had an excellent reputation as a lithographer and was considered a capacity in this field. In later years Henry also worked as a librarian at the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists.

Together with Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck , Philipp Wirtgen as well as Karl Wilhelm Arnoldi , Johann Carl Fuhlrott , Ludwig Clamor Marquart and others, he founded the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine in 1834 , which later became the natural history association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia , thereby revitalizing it this is largely the botanical exploration of the Rhineland. He was also a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors .

Aimé Constantin Fidelius Henry was admitted to the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy on October 8, 1843 with the academic surname of Bauer ( matriculation no. 1510 ) .

In his honor, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck named the genus Henrya Nees from the acanthus family in 1845 .

Aimé Constant Fidèle Henry was married to Maria Anna Josepha (1811-1884), née Eiler, since 1842. The couple had three sons together: Joseph (1843–1907), Carl Johann Hubert (1844–1931) and Albert (1846–1873).

He was buried in the old cemetery in Bonn.

Fonts

  • with Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck: The system of mushrooms. Explained by descriptions and illustrations . First division, publishing house of the Lithographic Institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and the Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Academie der Naturforscher, Henry and Cohen, Bonn 1837 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - extended edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018
  • One hundred years of Friedrich Cohen Bonn. Presented to the friends of the Friedrich Cohen company in the year of its centenary . Bonn on the Rhine 1929
  • Herbert Grundmann, editor: Bouvier 1828–1978 . Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann, Bonn 1978, ISBN 3-416-01454-5
  • Theodor A. Henseler: University bookstore and publisher H. Bouvier u. Co. , in: Bonner Geschichtsblätter Vol. 7, 1953
  • Klaus Hentschel : Mapping the Spectrum. Techniques of Visual Representation in Research and Teaching . Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 127
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 270 ( archive.org )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine as of July 31, 1836
  2. ^ Directory of the members of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia (January 1, 1854), p. 4 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Official report on the thirty-third meeting of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors in Bonn in September 1857, Bonn 1859, p. 16 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Henry, Aimé Constant Fidèle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henry, Aimé Constantin Fidelius; Farmer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-born lithographer, botanist, bookseller and publisher in Bonn
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Douai
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1875
Place of death Bonn