Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine

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The Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine was one of the oldest botanical associations in Germany, based in Koblenz .

history

In 1834, on the initiative of Philipp Wilhelm Wirtgen and Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck, a botanical association was founded in Koblenz on the Middle and Lower Rhine . The aim of the association was to research the flora of the Rhineland and to provide mutual instruction and support in the study of botany. The co-founders and first members who were accepted in August 1834 include Karl Wilhelm Arnoldi , Michael Bach , Johann Carl Fuhlrott and Louis Clamor Marquart .

At the suggestion of the pharmacist and botanist Louis Clamor Marquart, the association was de facto dissolved in 1843 and an association that was expanded to include the Prussian Rhineland was reorganized. Marquart worked out the statutes of this association with the Cologne pharmacist and botanist Johann Friedrich Sehlmeyer and the Elberfeld grammar school teacher Johann Carl Fuhlrott, and at Whitsun 1843 the founding meeting of the " Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland " was held in Aachen .

The herbarium and library were transferred to the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland.

Fonts

  • First annual report of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine. Henry & Cohen, Bonn 1837 digitized
  • Second annual report of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine. Henry & Cohen, Bonn 1839 digitized
  • Third annual report of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine. Dubois & Werle, Coblenz 1840 digitized

literature

  • Philipp Wirtgen: The botanical association on the Middle and Lower Rhine . In: Flora or general botanical newspaper, 21, 1841, pp. 322-335 digitized

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Notes and individual references

  1. ^ The approval of the responsible state minister Freiherr von Altenstein took place in June 1834
  2. ^ Members of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine as of July 31, 1836