Christian Friedrich Ecklon
Christian Friedrich Ecklon , also Frederik , (born December 17, 1795 in Aabenraa , † October 9, 1868 in Cape Town ) was a pharmacist and botanist from North Schleswig . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Eckl. "
Live and act
Born the son of a butcher, he began an apprenticeship as a pharmacist and then studied in Kiel . In 1823 he traveled to the Cape Colony , South Africa, and worked there for four years, first as a pharmacy assistant, then as a pharmacist. Despite his rather meager financial circumstances and his poor health, he was able to gain a reputation in the professional world with his botanical work. In 1828 he returned to Europe with an important collection. With German and Danish support, he and Carl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher traveled a second time to the southern tip of Africa in 1829 to continue his research and collecting activities. After his return in 1833, he worked on his research results in Hamburg until 1838. Part of his collection went to Copenhagen and another part to the Herbarium Kiel, the botanical collection of the university , which awarded him an honorary doctorate . His collections and works created the basis on which his friend Otto Wilhelm Sonder and the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey created the Flora Capensis in the years 1860–1865 . In 1838 he traveled a third time to South Africa and stayed there with a short break in 1844 until the end of his life. The genus of freesia is one of his discoveries, which are known to a wider audience .
Honor taxon
The genera Ecklonia Hornem were named in his honor . and Eckloniopsis Okamura named the algae. The Bornholm marguerite Osteospermum ecklonis from the Asteraceae family, which is widely used as an ornamental plant, bears his name as an epithet .
Works
- With Carl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher : Enumeratio Plantarum Africae Australis Extratropicae . Hamburg 1834-1837, (online) .
- II. Travel reports. Preliminary report on the trips made by Mr. Zeyher and Ecklon in southern Africa . In: kgl. Bay. Botanische Gesellschaft zu Regensburg (ed.): Flora , 16th year, 2nd volume, Regensburg 1833, pp. 470-480, Correspondenz, pp. 759-761.
- Topographical directory of the plant collection by CF Ecklon , I. Delivery, Esslingen 1827, digitized .
literature
- Franz Buchenau : Juncaceae from the Cap . In: Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein zu Bremen (Hrsg.): Abhandlungen , IV. Volume. Ed. Müller, Bremen 1875, p. 393 ff., Digitized version (The article contains detailed information on Ecklon's collecting activities in the chapter “Overview of previous research” from p. 398).
- Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present . Volume 2. Dassovius-Günther, Hamburg, 1854, p. 121, no. 871.
- Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck : Florae Africae australioris illustrationes monographicae , Prausnitz, Glogau 1841.
- Theodor I. Nietner : Travel report on the gardens and gardens of Hamburg . In: Friedrich Otto (Ed.): Allgemeine Gartenzeitung , 2nd year, Berlin 1834, p. 275 ff. (Here p. 277).
- Christian Friedrich Ecklon . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 4 : Clemens – Eynden . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1890, p. 417 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
- Staff Notes (Ecklon Obituary). In: Eduard Otto (Ed.): Hamburger garden and flower newspaper . 25th year, Robert Kittler, Hamburg 1869, p. 143.
- The late Dr. Ecklon (obituary). In: The Gardeners Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 1868, London 1868 pp. 1314-1315 (English, the author cites an article in the South African Advertiser ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1922. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7 .
- ↑ In a short journalistic article in the Botanische Zeitung from 1845, parts of the collection were offered for sale by the Hamburg dealer J. F. Drége: Botanische Zeitung , 3rd year, 1845, p. 607
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018, online .
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Christian Friedrich Ecklon at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ecklon, Christian Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Pharmacist and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1795 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aabenraa |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1868 |
| Place of death | Cape Town |