Charles Theodore Mohr
Charles Theodore Mohr , born Karl Theodor Mohr (born December 28, 1824 in Esslingen am Neckar , † July 17, 1901 in Ashville (North Carolina) ) was a German-American botanist and pharmacist . It achieved great importance for the economic development of the southern states. His botanical author abbreviation is " C.Mohr ".
Life
From 1842 to 1845 Mohr studied chemistry , pharmacy and mineralogy at the polytechnic school in Stuttgart . He then traveled to New Guinea to accompany August Kappler to carry out botanical studies. However, he had to stop this due to an illness. Until it was closed due to the 1848 revolution , Mohr worked in a chemical factory in Brno .
He then emigrated to the United States with an older brother , where he found employment as a chemist in a factory in Cincinnati . In addition, he created an extensive herbarium with the plants from the area . In 1849 Mohr moved to California , but had to return a year later due to illness. After working briefly as a farmer in Indiana, he learned pharmacy from a German pharmacist in Louisville and became a partner in a company. In addition, he continued his botanical studies. In 1857 Mohr had to move south to Mexico due to health problems, but returned to the USA due to the Mexican Revolution. In Mobile, Alabama , he opened the first German pharmacy and took over drug control for the Southern Army during the American Civil War . After the war he returned to botanical research and helped Leo Lesquereux with his work Mosses of North America (1884) by providing him with the mosses of South Alabama.
Mohr also carried out several investigations on behalf of the Department of Agriculture in Washington . From 1880 he went on research trips through the southern states and withdrew more and more from the pharmacy. Shortly before his death, he moved to Ashville to work on the Baltimore Herbarium.
Works
- Mohr, Charles: Plant life of Alabama. An account of the distribution, modes of association, adaptations of the flora of Alabama, together with a systematic catalog of the plants growing in the state 1901.
- Mohr, Charles: The Forests of Alabama and their Products . , Mobile 1879
- Mohr, Charles: The Natural Resources of Alabama . , Mobile 1883
- The Medicinal Plants of Alabama , Mobile 1887
- The Timer Pines of the Southern United States , Washington 1896 [2. Washington edition 1897]
- UNC Herbarium
literature
- Martin Müllerott: Mohr, Charles Theodore. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 704 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Wolfgang-Hagen Hein, Holm-Dietmar Schwarz: German Pharmacist Biography Volume II MZ
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Charles Theodore Mohr at the IPNI (without mosses and mushrooms)
- Mohr, Charles Theodore (Karl Theodor) at Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden (with list of plants described including mosses). Retrieved March 4, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mohr, Charles Theodore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mohr, Karl Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American botanist and pharmacist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Esslingen am Neckar |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 17, 1901 |
| Place of death | Ashville , North Carolina |