Anton Friedrich Spring

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anton Friedrich Spring (1814–1872)

Anton Friedrich Spring (also Antoine Frédéric Spring ; born April 8, 1814 in Gerolsbach near Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm ; † January 17, 1872 in Liège ) was a botanist , physician and scientist who was born and raised in the Kingdom of Bavaria and who assumed Belgian nationality in 1864 . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Spring ".

Life

Anton Friedrich Spring was the son of the Gerolsbach school teacher Xaver Spring. At the same time as Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, he attended high school with St. Anna in Augsburg , was versatile and composed a mass at the age of 14 , which was premiered in Augsburg Cathedral in 1828 .

He first studied natural sciences and philosophy and then human medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1835 he was awarded a prize publication Ueber die Naturhistorischen, which was subsequently recognized as a dissertation and under the motto "Natura infinita est; sed qui symbola animadverterit, omnia intelliget" Concepts of genus, species and variety and about the causes of the varieties in the organic realms to the Dr. phil. and with his medical dissertation De diversis Pneumophtiseos Speciebus 1836 for Dr. med. PhD . He then worked as an assistant at the Botanical Institute with Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius and at the General Hospital with Friedrich Carl von Loe . In addition to his scientific interests, Anton Friedrich Spring also pursued diverse musical and artistic interests. He had the reputation of a gifted violin virtuoso and was often invited to domestic concerts. In the workshop of the sculptor Ludwig Schwanthaler he tried in the plastic figures and about his friendship with the painter Wilhelm von Kaulbach , he received the opportunity in the studio of Peter von Cornelius in the frescoes to practice.

After the death of Friedrich Carl von Loe, he received a scholarship from the Bavarian government for further scientific training in Paris and sat in on several hospitals, at the Collège de France and in the Muséum d'histoire naturelle .

In 1839, Anton Friedrich Spring was appointed to the chair of physiology and general pathology at the University of Liège as the successor to the late physician Leroy , was chairman of the Conseil de salubrité publique de la province de Liège in 1846 and headed the University of Liège from 1861 to 1864 as rector magnificus . Antoine Frédéric Spring died unexpectedly on January 17, 1872 in Liège from the effects of pneumonia.

As a botanist, his focus was on processing the bear moss plants and moss ferns . Among other things, he is the first to describe and also one of the main processors of the moss fern family Selaginella denticulata ( L. ) Spring 1838, the Swiss moss fern Selaginella helvetica ( L. ) Spring and the loggerhead rose by Jericho Selaginella lepidophylla ( Hook. & Grev. ) Spring .

His herbarium is now part of the herbarium of the University of Liège.

In 1855 he became a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences as Josef Anton Spring and on November 2, 1864 Anton Friedrich Spring was accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 2040 ) of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina with the academic surname Heraclides . He was also a member of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique and the Regensburg Botanical Society .

Since 1840 he was married to Suzanne Élisabeth, nee Wagner, a niece of Johann Nepomuk von Ringseis . The couple had a son, the chemist Walther Victor Spring (1848–1911), and two daughters.

Fonts

  • About the natural historical concepts of genus, species and variety and about the causes of the varieties in the organic kingdoms. A price font . Fleischer, Leipzig 1838 ( digitized version )
  • About the origin, nature and spread of wandering cholera. With connections to the epidemic in Munich 1836/37 . Fleischmann, Munich 1837 ( digitized version )
  • De diversis Pneumophtiseos Speciebus . Poessenbacheri, Monachii 1838 ( digitized version )
  • Monograph de la famille des Lycopodiacées . M. Hayez en commission chez C. Muquardt, Bruxelles 1842–1849 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Armin Geus : Natura infinita est - the concept of species and species change at AF Spring . In: Ilse Jahn and Andreas Wessel (eds.): For a Philosophy of Biology - For a Philosophy of Biology. Festschrift to the 75th Birthday of Rolf Löther. Berlin studies on the philosophy of science & human ontogenetics, 26, Kleine, Munich 2010, pp. 17–34
  • Friedrich Jännicke :  Spring, Friedrich Anton . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 314 f.
  • Franz von Kobell : Joseph Anton Spring . In: Meeting reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1872, pp. 100–101 ( digitized version )
  • Theodor Schwann : Notice on Frédéric-Antoine Spring . In: Annuaire de l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, Bruxelles 1874, pp. 251–290 ( digitized version )

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Nature is infinite, but only those who have understood the signs will understand everything .
  2. ↑ Member entry of Josef Anton Spring at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on April 28, 2020.
  3. ↑ The choice of his academic surname was reminiscent of the Greek philosopher Herakleides Pontikos .
  4. ^ Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, list of members according to the chronological order of their entry from 1860 to December 31, 1887, p. 199 ( archive.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Spring, Anton Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spring, Antoine Frédéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Physicians, botanists and natural scientists
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Gerolsbach
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1872
Place of death Liege