Christian Friedrich Hornschuch

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Christian Friedrich Hornschuch in the rector's office, 1836

Christian Friedrich Hornschuch (born August 21, 1793 in Rodach ; † December 24, 1850 in Greifswald ) was a German botanist , bryologist , zoologist and natural philosopher . The focus of his work was the research of mosses . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Hornsch. "

Life

The son of a pharmacist attended the city school in his hometown of Rodach in Saxony-Coburg . After his father's death in 1808, he began an apprenticeship in the Neustädter pharmacy in Hildburghausen with Philipp Wilhelm Bartenstein (later mayor of Hildburghausen), where he continuously dealt with botany and chemistry. In 1813 he went to Regensburg , where he had contact with the professor of botany David Heinrich Hoppe and botanized under his guidance. On Hoppe's recommendation, he then went to Gefrees as an assistant to the pharmacist Heinrich Christian Funck . In addition to his work there, he dealt intensively with the deciduous mosses of the Fichtelgebirge and also with chemistry, mineralogy and entomology . In 1816 he toured the Adriatic coast with Hoppe . After a stopover in Coburg , he traveled with Hoppe via Salzburg to Tyrol and Carinthia in 1817 .

In 1818 he accepted a position as "demonstrator botanices" at the University of Greifswald . In 1819 he stayed for three months in Berlin , where he met Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck , Christoph Friedrich Otto , Heinrich Friedrich Link , and Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal . He arranged the moss herbarium left by Carl Ludwig Willdenow . He then traveled to Skåne with Jöns Jakob Berzelius , where he undertook research trips with Carl Adolph Agardh from Lund University . In 1818 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

In 1820 he became an associate professor of natural history and botany at the University of Greifswald. At the same time he took over the management of the botanical garden, which was significantly expanded under him, and the newly founded zoological museum. He made Wilhelm Schilling a curator at the Zoological Museum , with whom he also published articles together. In 1823 he went on a research trip that took him to Switzerland, France, the Netherlands and Hamburg.

In 1827 he was appointed full professor by royal cabinet order.

In 1830 he received an honorary doctorate in medicine. In 1831 he taught natural history in the medical and surgical college and from 1835 on at the affiliated Royal State and Agricultural Academy Eldena . He took over the rectorate of the university in 1836. In the same year he was made a knight of the Swedish Order of Vasa and awarded the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, 3rd class .

Fonts

Hornschuch published the botanical journal "Flora" with David Heinrich Hoppe and Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck , in which he reported on his discoveries. With Nees and Jacob Sturm he edited the "Bryologia Germanica" (1823-1831). He translated several Danish and Swedish works and edited the archive of Scandinavian contributions to natural history (1847). Other fonts include:

  • Diary on a trip to the coast of the Adriatic Sea. 1818.
  • De Voitia et Systolio. novis muscorum frondosorum generibus. 1818.
  • with Wilhelm Schilling : Brief notes on the species of the genus Halichoerus NILSS that occur in the Baltic Sea. Greifswald 1850. ( Online )

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predecessor Office successor
August Friedrich Barkow Rector of the University of Greifswald
1836 		Franz Anton Niemeyer
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SURNAME Hornschuch, Christian Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hornschuch, Christian; Hornschuch, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist, bryologist and natural philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Rodach
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1850
Place of death Greifswald