Carl Wilhelm Leopold jug

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Carl Wilhelm Leopold Krug , shortly Leopold Krug , also Charles , (* 1. September 1833 on Good Muehlenbeck at Pankow , † 5. April 1898 in Berlin light field ) was a German botanist , anthropologist , author and patron . Its botanical author's abbreviation is " Krug ".

Life

He was the son of the manor owner Karl Krug on Gut Mühlenbeck and Auguste Ulrici. His grandfather was the German economist and statistician Leopold Krug (1770–1843).

Krug was baptized on October 8, 1833 in the Sophienkirche in Berlin. He was educated in his parents' house, at the Joachimsthaler Gymnasium and at the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin . After completing a commercial apprenticeship in Hamburg , he joined the global company Schulze and Co. in 1856. In Mayagüez on Puerto Rico , the company management soon passed into his hands. He was German and English consul in Mayagüez. For his services he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Queen Isabella the Catholic by the Spanish government and thus with the rank of grande with seat in the Cortes .

The Prussian government awarded him the title of professor on the basis of his research into the fauna and flora of West India . He left his extensive collections in the field of fauna to the Berlin Zoological Museum for processing . His 20-volume catalog of flora, Catalogus plantarum omnium Indiae occidentalis , which he had made between 1884 and 1898, was donated to the Botanical Museum in Berlin . For the processing and further local research on the West Indies, he made substantial grants from his own resources.

He donated ethnographic collections to the Ethnological Museum in Berlin . He returned to Berlin at 18-6 and made his own home in Lichterfelde-Ost, Marienplatz 8-10. In Puerto Rico he married the Spanish widow Tula de Chavarry (1839–1911) on October 21, 1879 and adopted her son from his first marriage, Pedro Fernandez. The marriage remained childless.

Krug is buried next to his wife in the Lichterfelde cemetery. After his death, the National-Zeitung (Issue No. 238 of April 15, 1898) and the report of the German Botanical Society (Volume XVI, 1898) gave a detailed appraisal of his work .

The genus Krugiodendron of the buckthorn family was named after him.

Works

  • Catalogus plantarum omnium Indiae occidentalis , manuscript, 20 volumes, Berlin 1884–1898
  • Nomina vernacula plantarum Indiae occidentalis , 1868-1893

literature

  • Ignaz Urban: Leopold Krug . Reprint from the reports of the German Botanical Society, Volume XVI, pages 23–37, Berlin 1898
  • Ernst Wunschmann:  Krug, Leopold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 401-403.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers: Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen , Volume 2, Page 259, 2001 ( digitized with photo )
  2. ↑ Nelson Papavero: Essays on the history of neotropical dipterology, with special reference to collectors (1750-1905) , Volume 2, page 296, Museu de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo, 1971 ( excerpt )
  3. ↑ D. Gledhill: The names of plants , page 226, 2008 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Krug, Carl Wilhelm Leopold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krug, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist, author and patron
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Mühlenbeck near Pankow
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1898
Place of death Berlin-Lichterfelde