Benjamin Peter Gloxin

Benjamin Peter Gloxin (* 1765 in Colmar ; † 1794 ) was an Alsatian , Prussian- German botanist and doctor . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Gloxin ".

Life

Benjamin Peter Gloxin was the son of Colmar city physician Benjamin Gloxin († 1784). The Protestant Gloxin family, originally from Prussia, was able to advise in Colmar. He lived as a doctor in Colmar and worked as a botanist mainly with plants of the genus Martynia and related genera of the chamois horn family (Martyniaceae). He described the species Martynia proboscidea , which later turned out to be a synonym for Martynia louisianica . Through Albert Thellt , Gloxin's species name became the new generic name in 1912 and the plant is now called Proboscidea louisianica .

The houseplant, Sinningia speciosa, traded as "gloxinia"

In 1785, the French botanist Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle named Gloxin in honor of a genus of the Gesneria family Gloxinia . Sinningia speciosa , originally from Brazil , which was previously assigned to the genus Gloxinia , is usually offered as "gloxinia" in the flower trade . The genus Gloxinella (HEMoore) Roalson & Boggan from the Gesneria family is also named after Gloxin.

Works

Observationes Botanicae . Dannbach, Argentorati (= Strasbourg) 1785.

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Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Benjamin Peter Gloxin at the IPNI

supporting documents

↑ The year of death 1784 given by Zander, 13th edition, is likely to be an error.
↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1938. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
^ Evidence from David Gloxin (politician, 1568)
↑ Peter George Wallace: Communities and Conflict in Early Modern Colmar: 1575-1730 , BRILL, 1995, pp. 213 ff., 225
↑ ^a ^b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

personal data
SURNAME	Gloxin, Benjamin Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German botanist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	1765
PLACE OF BIRTH	Colmar
DATE OF DEATH	1794

[1] The year of death 1784 given by Zander, 13th edition, is likely to be an error.

[Zander2008-2] Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1938. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7

[3] Evidence from David Gloxin (politician, 1568)

[4] Peter George Wallace: Communities and Conflict in Early Modern Colmar: 1575-1730 , BRILL, 1995, pp. 213 ff., 225

[Burkhardt2018-5] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]