August Wilhelm Dennstedt

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August Wilhelm Dennstedt (born July 30, 1776 in Weimar ; † February 12, 1826 in Magdala ) was a German pharmacist or physician and botanist . His botanical author's abbreviation is “ Dennst. "

Life

Dennstedt was mayor of the city of Magdala near Weimar.

He wrote several botanical works. He was most important in the field of botany as the editor of the Hortus Belvedereanus , the catalog of the largest inventory of exotic plants on the European mainland at the time, in Belvedere near Weimar , the first volume of which appeared in 1820. This would not have appeared like this if the court gardener Johann Christian Sckell had not been a supportive colleague. Scientific director of the Belvedere Botanical Garden since 1818. Grand Duke Carl August , who had been employed for this purpose, appointed Dennstedt professor.

There is a class of plants, the bracken family , which are named Dennstaedtiaceae in his honor .

Works (selection)

  • Weimar's Flora: Plants with Clear Sexes , Volume 1, 1800.
  • Plants with air vessels , 1807.
  • Nomenclator botanicus: seu, Enumeratio alphabetica omnium hucusque cognitorum vegetabilium, adjectis praecipuis synonymis , 1810.
  • The vegetable kingdom: or characterizing description of all currently known plants .
  • Hortus Belvedereanus. Or List of Certain Plants , 1820 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art. Dennstedt, August Wilhelm:, in: Gitta Günther , Wolfram Huschke , Walter Steiner (ed.): Weimar. Lexicon on the history of the city , Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nachhaben, Weimar 1997, ISBN 3-7400-0807-5 , p. 86.
  2. ↑ Reinhard Schau : The Weimar Belvedere. An educational institution between the time of Goethe and the present. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne et al. 2006, p. 48.
  3. ↑ A Gardener's Handbook of Plant Names: Their Meanings and Origins by AW Smith There they are called Dennstaedtia.

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personal data
SURNAME Dennstedt, August Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1826
Place of death Magdala