Carl Eugen von Mercklin

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Carl Eugene of Mercklin ( Russian Карл Евгеньевич (фон) Мерклин ; born March 26, jul. / 7. April  1821 greg. In Riga , † November 11 jul. / 24. November  1904 greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a German- Baltic or Russian botanist .

Life

Origin and family

Carl Eugen was a son of from Ludwigsburg originating and 1841 the Russian nobility collected physician in Riga Eugen Mercklin (1792-1873) and the pastor's daughter Friederike Lark (1793-1831). His brothers were the classical philologist Ludwig Mercklin (1816–1863) and the Russian major general August Mercklin (1823–1892).

In 1849 he married Rosalie von Lerche (1821-1892).

Career

After previous private lessons, Mercklin attended the State High School in Birkenruh from 1831 to 1835 and the Gouvernementsgymnasium in Riga from 1836 to 1839 . In Dorpat he began to study natural sciences in 1840 , where he especially attended the lectures on botany with Alexander von Bunge . After his exams in 1845 he went on a study trip, which finally took him via Paris and Vienna to Jena , where he worked with Matthias Jakob Schleiden with the thesis "On the history of the development of leaf shapes", to the Dr. phil. received his doctorate .

At the beginning of 1847 he moved to St. Petersburg, where he was employed as a physiologist in the Botanical Garden in 1848. From 1856 to 1887 he worked as an expert in natural sciences and microscopy at the Medical Department of the Ministry of the Interior. Since 1863 he was an advisory member of the Medical Council of the Ministry of the Interior and since 1877 a permanent member of the medically-learned committee of the Ministry of War. He also taught as a lecturer between 1847 and 1865 plant anatomy, physiology and forest botany at the St. Petersburg Forest Institute and as a full professor of botany from 1864 to 1877 at the Medical and Surgical Academy there.

In 1855 he was honored with the Demidow Prize , had been a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences since 1864 , became a privy councilor in 1881 and was passed in 1887. Since 1895 he was also an honorary member of the Natural Scientists Association in Riga.

Mercklin also gained recognition by naming a genus of the Proteaceae family as well as some living and fossil plant species after him. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Merckl. "

Works

Mercklin has written numerous thematically relevant scientific articles, including:

  • The microscope and its services. In: Work of the Natural Research Association in Riga 1, 1848, pp. 83–114 (digitized version )
  • Karloffelkrankheit in the Baltic provinces of Kur-, Liv- und Ehstland in the years 1846 and 1847. In: Work of the Natural Research Association in Riga 1, 1848, pp. 369–427 (digitized version )
  • Instructions for examining suspicious stains for doctors and lawyers , 1870 (Russian), 1871 (German)
  • Palaeodendrologikon rossicum , 1855

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Hasselblatt and Gustav Otto : Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. C. Mattiesen, Dorpat 1889, p. 295.
  2. ↑ Mercklin, Karl Eugen (Eugeniewitsch) von (1821–1904) in the International Plant Names Index , accessed on October 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Mercklin, Carl Eugen von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ме́рклин, Карл Евге́ньевич фон (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1904
Place of death St. Petersburg