Anton Franz Besnard

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Anton Franz Besnard (born April 12, 1814 in Munich ; † December 6, 1885 ibid) was a German military doctor, naturalist , botanist and mineralogist .

Life

Anton Besnard, son of the secret secretary in the Ministry of the Interior August Besnard, attended the Königliche Neue Gymnasium and worked with Johann Nepomuk von Ringseis , Franz von Kobell and Johann Nepomuk Fuchs at the Ludwig Maximilians University ( Old Academy ) later as a royal Bavarian battalion / regiment and general doctor as well as a general practitioner in Munich. The main focus of his scientific activity was mineralogy, the progress of which he systematically followed over many years and showed in publications. In addition, he created an extensive work on botany in Bavaria.

When Dr. phil. et med. He was a member of the Pharmaceutical Society in Baiern , the Historical Society for the Lower Main District, the Physico-Medical Society Erlangen (Societas physico-medica Erlangensis), the Royal Bavarian Botanical Society in Regensburg , the Zoological-Mineralogical Society in Regensburg and numerous other scientific societies and clubs. In 1854 he became a corresponding member of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society . On May 1, 1854 he was registered under the registration number. 1702 with the academic surname Leopold Gmelin II. Accepted in the section Mineralogy, Crystallography and Petrology as a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

Besnard was a member of the Corps Bavaria Würzburg (1838) and the Corps Nassovia Heidelberg (1840).

Fonts

  • Inaugural treatise on the difference between genus (gender), species (species), and varietas (variety), and on the causes by which the origin of the varieties or varieties is justified in organic nature. Munich 1835 ( digitized ).
  • The titanium and its connections. Inaugural treatise. Munich 1836 ( digitized ).
  • The minerals of Bavaria according to where they were found. A mineralogical-topographical sketch. Augsburg 1854 ( digitized version ).
  • Old and new to the doctrine of the organic species. A compact compilation of what has appeared so far. Regensburg 1864 ( digitized ).
  • Bavaria's flora. List of phanerogamic plants growing wild in Bavaria on both sides of the Rhine, with details of their locations, flowering time, the Linnaeus classes and natural families. Jul. Grubert, Munich 1866 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • 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. 279 ( archive.org ).
  • 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. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 186 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual report of the royal new grammar school and the royal educational institute for students in Munich for the academic year 1827/28. Munich, p. 34 (No. 33) digitized
  2. ^ List of members 1883 of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society (PDF).
  3. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 201 , 138; 117 , 75
personal data
SURNAME Besnard, Anton Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Besnard, Anton; Leopold Gmelin II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, botanist and mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1885
Place of death Munich