August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel

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August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel (born August 1, 1775 in Ernsbach , † December 25, 1813 in Wertheim ) was a German doctor and botanist . His botanical author abbreviation is " Wibel ".

Life

August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel studied medicine in Jena and received his doctorate in 1797.

Wibel initially worked as a doctor in Wertheim and later as a personal physician, councilor and physician for the Wertheim district. He died of typhus in a Russian hospital in Wertheim.

August Wibel is the first to describe numerous botanical taxa.

Honors

Johann Jakob Bernhardi named the plant genus Wibelia from the Davalliaceae family in his honor .

Fonts

  • Dissertatio Inauguralis Botanica Primitiarum Florae Werthemensis Sistens Prodromum. Goepferdt, Jena 1797 digitized
  • Primitiae Florae Werthemensis. Goepferdt, Jena 1799 digitized
  • Contributions to the promotion of botany. First volume, first section. With 2 copper plates. Guilhauman, Frankfurt am Main 1800 digitized

literature

  • Jan-Peter Frahm & Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists , 2001, pp. 559-560
  • Erich Langguth: Dr. August WIBEL and Dr. Wilhelm EICHHORN. Christmas 1813 - memory of two doctors. In: Erich Langguth: From Wertheim's story . (Publication of the historical association Wertheim; Vol. 7) ed. by the Historical Association in conjunction with the Wertheim State Archives on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Historical Association of Wertheim eV (1904–2004), Verlag des Historisches Verein Wertheim eV, Wertheim 2004, ISBN 3-00-015709-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
personal data
SURNAME Wibel, August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Ernsbach
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1813
Place of death Wertheim