Carl Heinrich Schultz (botanist)

Funerary inscription, Deidesheim cemetery

Gravestone, Deidesheim cemetery

Carl Heinrich Schultz , also Karl , (born June 30, 1805 in Zweibrücken , † December 17, 1867 in Deidesheim ), named Schultz Bipontinus through latinization of his place of birth (Zweibrücken = Bipons) , was a German doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Sch.Bip. "; earlier it was also “ Schultz Bip. “In use.

Life

His older brother Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz (1804–1876) was also a botanist. In 1840 Carl Heinrich Schultz, then a doctor at the Deidesheimer Spital , gathered 25 scholars from the Palatinate and surrounding areas to found an association; on October 6, 1840, POLLICHIA was founded, initially a purely scientific society. This was named after the Kaiserslautern doctor and botanist Johann Adam Pollich (1740–1780). Since an amendment to the statutes in 1976, the association has been called “POLLICHIA Verein für Naturforschung und Landespflege e. V. ".

Schultz was a member of many fraternities : fraternity Germania im Schwan Erlangen (1825), fraternity Amicitia Munich (1826), old fraternity Arminia Munich (1827), fraternity Marcomannia Munich (1828) and fraternity Germania Munich (1829, founder).

Honors

In 1843 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

According to the epitaph, Schultz was a knight of the 1st class of the Bavarian Order of St. Michael .

According to him, the plant genera Bipontia S.F.Blake from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) and Bipontinia Alef. named from the legume family (Fabaceae).

Fonts

Analysis of Cichoriacearum Palatinatus . 1841.
Contribution to the history and geographical distribution of the Cassiniaceen . 1866.
I. Original essays on the Compositae of Eduard Rüppell 's and Wilhelm Schimper 's Abyssinian and Kotschy 's Nubian journey. In: Flora or general botanical newspaper , XXV vol., II. Vol. Regensburg 1842, pp. 417–424, 433–442

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 354-355.
Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
Ernst Wunschmann: Schultz, Karl Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 722 f.

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Carl Heinrich Schultz (botanist) at the IPNI

Individual evidence

^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 354.
^ Member entry by Karl Heinrich Schultz-Bipontinus at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 13, 2015.
↑ 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	Schultz, Carl Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schultz-Bipontinus, Carl Heinrich; Schultz Bipontinus, Carl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 30, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH	December 17, 1867
Place of death	Deidesheim

[1] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 354.

[2] Member entry by Karl Heinrich Schultz-Bipontinus at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 13, 2015.

[Burkhardt_2018-3] 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 .