Carl Ernst August consecration

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Carl Ernst August Weihe (born January 30, 1779 in Mennighüffen ; † January 27, 1834 in Herford ) was a German human medicine , homeopath and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Weihe ".

Life

His grandfather Friedrich August Weihe was born in Hordorf in 1721 , took part as a field preacher in the Second Silesian War and worked from 1751 to 1771 as a pietistic pastor, song poet in Gohfeld and as a forerunner of the revival movement in the Minden-Ravensberg area . The father Carl Justus Friedrich Weihe (1752-1829) worked as a pastor in Mennighüffen.

Carl Ernst August consecration concluded in Bielefeld , the pharmacist teaching , and studied medicine at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in Halle , where he in 1802 for MD PhD was. He was a practicing doctor in Lüttringhausen , Bünde and finally in his home town of Mennighüffen, where he set up a small botanical garden on his father's land. Weihe learned from Samuel Hahnemann and became the first homeopath in Westphalia . In 1820 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1822 he moved to Herford. In 1828 he cured Clemens von Bönninghausen from consumption .

He made around 160 initial descriptions of new plant species and was a specialist in the genus Rubus . His herbarium is in the University of Münster .

The grandson August Weihe (1840-1896) was a human medicine and homeopath . According to him, the "Weihesche Druckpunkte" and the August Weihe Institute for Homeopathic Medicine e. V. in Detmold .

Dedication names

After consecration, the plant genus Weihea is Spreng. named from the family of Rhizophoraceae .

Alexandre Louis Simon Lejeune named the taxon Rubus weihei Lej in his honor . Other dedication names are:

  • Rubus Weiheanus Kohler
  • Rubus Weihei Kohler
  • Rubus weiheanus Focke ex Gremli
  • Rubus weiheanus Ripert ex Genevier

Initial descriptions (selection)

  • Rubus apiculatus
  • Rubus argenteus
  • Rubus bellardii
  • Rubus carpinifolius
  • Rubus cinerasceus
  • Rubus cordifolius
  • Rubus fastigiatus
  • Rubus ferox
  • Rubus grabowskii
  • Rubus guentheri
  • Rubus koehleri
  • Rubus macrophyllus
  • Rubus pallius
  • Rubus plicatus
  • Rubus × pseudidaeus
  • Rubus radula
  • Rubus rudis
  • Rubus worsei
  • Rubus silvaticus
  • Rubus sprengelii
  • Rubus vestitus
  • Rubus vulgaris

Fonts

literature

  • Carl Ernst August Weihe, in: Heinrich E. Weber : Batologici europaei illustrati et breviter descripti . 2009, p. 1 (online)
  • Brunhild Gries: Life and work of the Westphalian botanist Carl Ernst August Weihe . In: Treatises from the State Museum for Natural History in Münster in Westphalia . 40 (3), 1978, pp. 1-45. → (online)
  • William T. Stearn: Weihe and Nees's Rubi Germanici . In: Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History , Volume 4, 1969, pp. 68-69.
  • Weihe, Carl Ernst August, in: Martin Stahl: The correspondence between Samuel Hahnemann and Clemens von Bönninghausen (= sources and studies on the history of homeopathy , volume 3). Haug Verlag , Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-7760-1632-9 , pp. 230-231.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Justus Friedrich Weihe. Retrieved December 14, 2016 .
  2. ↑ August Weihe Institute for Homeopathic Medicine e. V. Accessed December 14, 2016 .
  3. ↑ 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 Consecration, Carl Ernst August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Consecration (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH at Mennighüffen
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1834
Place of death Herford