Carl Anton Fingerhuth

Carl Anton Fingerhuth (born December 20, 1798 in Dom-Esch ; † June 3, 1876 ibid) was a German physician and botanist . His botanical author abbreviation is " Fingerh. "

Life

Carl Anton Fingerhuth studied medicine, received his doctorate in medicine and surgery and was approved on June 28, 1831 . Fingerhuth worked as a doctor in Esch near Euskirchen until the end of his life .

He is the first descriptor of numerous botanical taxa, partly together with his friend Mathias Joseph Bluff , with whom he published some writings together and for whom he created and published an obituary after his early death.

From October 1834 Fingerhuth was a member of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine .

Honors

In 1834 Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck named the plant genus Fingerhuthia Nees , the current Fingerhuthia Nees ex loam, in his honor . and is assigned to the grass family .

Fonts

with Mathias Joseph Bluff: Compendium florae Germaniae. Sect. I. Plantae phanerogamicae seu vasculosae. Tomus I. Schrag, Norimbergae 1825 digitized
with Mathias Joseph Bluff: Compendium florae Germaniae. Sect. I. Plantae phanerogamicae seu vasculosae. Tomus II. Schrag, Norimbergae 1825 digitized
Tentamen Florulae Lichenum Eiffliacae sive Enumeratio Lichenum in Eifflia provenientium . Schrag, Norimbergae 1829 digitized
Monographia generis Capsici . Arnz, Düsseldorpii 1832 digitized
with Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, Mathias Joseph Bluff and Johann Conrad Schauer : Compendium florae Germaniae. Sectio I., Plantae phanerogamicae seu vasculosae. Tomus I, Pars I, Schrag, Norimbergae 1836 digitized
with Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, Mathias Joseph Bluff and Johann Conrad Schauer: Compendium florae Germaniae. Sectio I., Plantae phanerogamicae seu vasculosae. Tomus I, Pars II, Schrag, Norimbergae 1837 digitized
Matthias Joseph Bluff, practicing doctor in Aachen. In: Second annual report of the botanical association on the Middle and Lower Rhine. Henry & Cohen, Bonn 1839, pp. 142–144 digitized

literature

Jan-Peter Frahm & Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists , Norderstedt 2001, p. 105 digitized

Web links

Works by and about Carl Anton Fingerhuth in the German Digital Library
IPNI : 2735-1
OCLC WorldCat Identities: Fingerhuth, Karl Anton
CERL Thesaurus: Fingerhuth, Carl Anton (1798 - 1876)

Individual evidence

^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Cologne, Item 32, Tuesday, August 9, 1831, p. 224 digitized
^ Members of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine as of July 31, 1836
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

personal data
SURNAME	Fingerhuth, Carl Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physician and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 20, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cathedral Esch
DATE OF DEATH	June 3, 1876
Place of death	Cathedral Esch

[1] Official Journal of the Royal Government of Cologne, Item 32, Tuesday, August 9, 1831, p. 224 digitized

[2] Members of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine as of July 31, 1836

[Burkhardt2018-3] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]