Carl Bernhard Trinius

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Carl Bernhard Trinius

Carl Bernhard von Trinius , also Karl Bernhard Trinius (born March 7, 1778 in Eisleben , † March 12, 1844 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German doctor, poet and botanist . He founded the Botanical Museum in St. Petersburg and was the personal physician and teacher of Tsar Alexander II . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Trin. "

Life

Trinius was born on March 7, 1778 in Eisleben . He was the son of the Protestant pastor Johann Anton Trinius (1722–1784) and Charlotte Hahnemann (1752–1812), a sister of the founder of homeopathy Samuel Hahnemann . His father died early, and so his mother married the teacher Müller from Eisleben. After graduating from high school in Eisleben, Trinius studied medicine from 1792–1802, first in Jena, then in Halle an der Saale, where he discovered his interest in botany, and finally in Leipzig. In Göttingen he received his doctorate in medicine in 1802.

After completing his studies, Trinius moved to the German-Russian Baltic Sea provinces. In order to find a job as a doctor in Russia, he passed his exams again in Dorpat and immediately got a job at the Gawen estate in Courland. A little later he evidently moved to the town of Hasenpoth in Latvia, where he met the poet Ulrich von Schlippenbach (1774–1826) and the writer Mirbach . In 1804 he married Josepha Boriskovski (1775-1857). They had a daughter Amalie (1805–91), who in 1831 married the Russian major general and later homeopath Michael von Bulmerincq (1805–93). In 1808 Trinius gave up his practice in Hasenpoth and became the personal physician of Duchess Antoinette of Württemberg. Until the Duchess' death in 1824, he took part in many trips that took him through Germany and Russia. So Trinius accompanied the Duchess to St. Petersburg from 1811 to 1815, where he made friends with Ernst Moritz Arndt and also found time for scientific work. From 1816–1822 Trinius lived in Vitebsk (Belarus).

Returning to St. Petersburg in 1822, he became a full member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences as a result of his scientific botanical work. When the Duchess died in 1824, he was appointed imperial personal physician. Trinius now settled in St. Petersburg, where he worked alongside his medical practice in the botany department. From 1829 to 1833 Trinius taught the future Tsar Alexander II in the natural sciences.

In 1830 Trinius finished his medical practice in order to dedicate himself from now on to the study of homeopathy. He corresponded with his uncle Samuel Hahnemann. From 1836 he visited the botanical collections abroad on behalf of the imperial academy. After several strokes, in Munich in 1837 and in Dresden in 1838, he died in St. Petersburg in 1844 of dropsy in "his family's bosom".

Services

Trinius wrote 34 botanical treatises and other manuscripts of botanical content. He has also described the botanical yields of Russian travelers in many individual papers. Shortly before his death, Trinius bequeathed his "Herbarium of Carl Bernhard von Trinius", a botanical collection with 4,000 to 5,000 plant specimens, which is still of fundamental scientific importance to the St. Petersburg Botanical Museum. All plants were mounted on cardboard in the first half of the 20th century. This includes many notes and detailed drawings made by Trinius. In 1994 a digital catalog was created in a joint project between the Komarov Botanical Institute and the Smithsonian Institute (USA). In 1995 the Trinius collection was published on microfiche .

Bernhard Trinius was also a poet. He has published some poems in magazines and paperbacks, he also tried his hand as a playwright. After his death, two of his friends published a collection of his left poetic products.

Honors

In 1821 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . The botanist Georg Franz Hoffmann named the plant genus Trinia from the umbelliferous family (Apiaceae) in honor of Trinius . Also the plant genera Triniella Calest. from the umbelliferae and Triniochloa Hitchc family. from the sweet grass family (Poaceae) are named after him.

Writings and works

  • with Joseph Liboschitz : Flore des environs de St.-Pétersbourg et de Moscou, Saint Petersburg: Pluchart 1811
  • 1820: Fundamenta Agrostographiae , standard botanical work
  • About the nature and meaning of human hair and teeth.
  • 1828: Species graminum, iconibus et descriptionibus illustravit CB Trinius [...]. Petersburg 1828 ff.
  • 1848: Poems by Dr. BC Trinius, published by two of his friends , Berlin 1848

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry of Karl Bernhard von Trinius at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ 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 Trinius, Carl Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trinius, Carl Bernhard von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, poet and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisleben
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1844
Place of death St. Petersburg