Charles Martins
Charles Frédéric Martins (born January 6, 1806 in Paris , † February 4, 1889 there ) was a French botanist and medicin. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Martins ".
Martins was Protestant and of German descent. He went to school in Paris and Geneva (where he came under the influence of the botanist Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle ) and studied medicine in Paris with a doctorate in 1834 (Principes de la méthode naturelle appliqués à la classification des maladies de la peau). In 1839 he received his Agrégation in Natural History in Paris. He taught natural history at the Medical Faculty of the Sorbonne and was from 1846 assistant professor for botany and zoology at the University of Montpellier and in 1851 he became professor for botany and natural history and director of the botanical garden. In 1879 he retired and last lived in Paris.
He took part in various expeditions from Spitzbergen to the Sahara (Egypt, Algeria), about which he also published a travel report. He was also in the Alps a lot. In addition to botany, he also published on geology and meteorology (he translated the textbook on meteorology by Ludwig Friedrich Kämtz ). In the botanical garden in Montpellier he built a large glass house and an observatory.
He was a corresponding member of the Geological Society of London and corresponded with Charles Darwin (he was an evolutionist) and Carl Vogt , with whom he was friends. Martins translated works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (his scientific writings in 1837), Charles Darwin (his work on insect-eating plants) and Ernst Haeckel (natural history of creation) into French. In 1873 he also published a new edition of the philosophy zoologique by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck .
From 1839 he was a member of the Leopoldina . In 1853 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences of Montpellier and in 1870 he was its president. In 1863 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .
Fonts
- Du Spitzberg au Sahara: étapes d'un naturaliste au Spitzberg, en Laponie, en Écosse, en Suisse, en France, en Italie, en Orient, en Égypte et en Algérie, Paris: J.-B. Baillière 1866
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Charles-Frédéric Martins at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 23, 2015.
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter M. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 19, 2020 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martins, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martins, Charles Frédéric (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French botanist and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1889 |
| Place of death | Paris |