Ambrosius Rau
Ambrosius Rau (born March 7, 1784 in Würzburg ; † January 26, 1830 ibid) was a German naturalist and professor in Würzburg. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " A.Rau ".
Life
Rau studied camera science and natural sciences in Würzburg and became a private lecturer there before he received his doctorate in 1808 . Soon afterwards he received his doctorate and in 1809 a professor, where, as the successor to Bonavita Blank, he held lectures on natural history ( zoology , botany , mineralogy , forestry ) and carried out botanical excursions with the students. In 1829 he gave up his lectures due to illness, and he was succeeded by the chemist and mineralogist Ludwig Rumpf , who had been at the University of Würzburg since 1826 . Ambrosius Rau died in 1830 of a breast disease. Most recently he was a full professor of natural history and forest science.
He wrote a textbook on mineralogy and a monograph on roses . It is considered to be one of the first works on the local flora of roses to distinguish regional variations within the species.
On May 6, 1816, he was elected a member (matriculation number 1059) of the Leopoldina with the nickname Isidorus II . Rau was with Nees von Esenbeck friends that the diamond greenhouse Rauia resinosa named after rough. Some herbarium copies of Ambrosius Rau have been preserved in the Würzburg herbarium .
Fonts
- About the technical part of salt works, Joseph Stahel, Würzburg 1809 google books
- Enumeratio rosarum circa Wirceburgum et pagos adjacentes sponte crescentium, Felssecker, Nuremberg 1816, archive
- Textbook of Mineralogy, 1st edition, In der Stahelische Buchhandlung, Würzburg 1818 Archives
- Remarks on the natural historical mineral system of Mr. Friederich Mohs, Franz Ernst Nitribitt, Würzburg 1821 BSB Digital
- Textbook of Mineralogy, 2nd edition, In der Stahel'schen Buchhandlung, Würzburg 1826 google books
literature
- Kraus: Ambrosius Rau and his rose herbarium . In: From the plant world of Lower Franconia , Volume 11, 1910, p. 22, pdf
Web links
- Mineralogical Record
- Member entry of Ambros Rau at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed December 4, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ^ Society of German Rose Friends (ed.): Rose worlds - history, culture, gardens, personalities . Aquensis, Baden-Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-937978-21-5 , pp. 194 .
- ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 245 (archive.org)
- ↑ Rauia resinosa, Tropico
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rau, Ambrosius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German natural scientist and professor in Würzburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1784 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1830 |
| Place of death | Wurzburg |