Carl Traugott Beilschmied
Carl Traugott Beilschmied , also Karl, (born October 19, 1793 in Langenöls , † May 6, 1848 in Herrnstadt ) was a Silesian - Prussian , German botanist and pharmacist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Beilschm. "
Beilschmied was the son of a weaver, lost his parents at the age of two and was raised by his grandfather and an aunt. From 1803 he was a pupil in the orphanage Bunzlau and from 1807 went to be a pharmacist in Beuthen . This awoke his interest in botany. From 1814 he was in Breslau for three years, then again in Beuthen and from 1819 he was a pharmacist's assistant in Berlin. He attended lectures at the university and began, after he had accepted a position as a pharmacist in Bonn in 1820, at the local university with Nees von Esenbeck , whose herbarium he arranged. The study was made possible by a scholarship because of his work on the flora of the area around Bytom. In 1822 he became the provisional agent of a pharmacy in Ohlau , which he took over in 1826 by marrying the widow of the previous owner. He died of tuberculosis in Herrnstadt, where his daughter had married a pharmacist.
He was particularly concerned with plant geography. In 1831 he published the plant geography by Alexander von Humboldt and in 1829 he published a German translation of the tribes of the vegetable kingdom by John Lindley .
In 1837 he received an honorary doctorate in Breslau and in 1838 he became a member of the Leopoldina . Nees van Esenbeck named a genus of Lauraceae in his honor .
His herbarium was sold after his death and is believed to have been scattered.
Fonts
- Plant geography, based on Alexander von Humboldt's works on the geographical distribution of plants: with annotations, larger supplements from other plant-geographical writings and an excursion on the considerations necessary for comparing plant-geographical flora. Breslau 1831 Archives
literature
- Jan-Peter Frahm , Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists. 2001
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beilschmied, Carl Traugott |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beilschmied, Karl Traugott |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 19, 1793 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Long oil |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1848 |
| Place of death | Wąsosz |