Christian Friedrich Lessing
Christian Friedrich Lessing (born August 10, 1809 in Groß-Wartenberg in the Katzengebirge , Lower Silesia ; † March 13, 1862 in Krasnoyarsk , Siberia ) was a Prussian, German doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Less. "
Life
His father Carl Friedrich Lessing the Elder (1778-1848) was a judicial officer in Breslau, from 1809 Chancellor of the Court of the Free State of Polish Wartenberg . His mother Clementine b. Schwarz (1783–1821) was the daughter of the government chancellor of Prince Hatzfeldt in Trachenberg . Christian Friedrich Lessing was a great-nephew of the famous poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781). One of his brothers was the painter Carl Friedrich Lessing (1808–1880).
In his work "Synopsis generum Compositarum ...", published in 1832, he dealt with the aster family of plants (Asteraceae, formerly called Compositae).
He made research trips through Lapland and Siberia. In 1862 he died working as a city doctor in Krasnoyarsk.
Honors
The plant genus Lessingia Cham. from the daisy family (Asteraceae) was named after the poet Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , after the painter Carl Friedrich Lessing and after him.
Works
- Journey through Norway to the Loffoden through Lapland and Sweden . Mylius, Berlin 1831.
- De generibus cynarocephalarum atque speciebus generis arctotidis: Dissertatio inauguralis botanica . Trowitzsch, Berlin 1832 (dissertation, University of Berlin, 1832).
- Synopsis generum Compositarum earumque dispositionis novae tentamen monographiis multarum capensium interjectis . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1832.
literature
- Arend Buchholtz : The story of the Lessing family. V. Holten, Berlin 1909, Volume 2, pp. 355-401.
- Rostislaw Jurjewitsch Danilewski: СИБИРСКИЙ ЛЕССИНГ. In: ВЕСТНИК ТОМСКОГО ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА. No. 291, 2006, pp. 43-45 ( abstract ; PDF ).
- Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
- Ernst Wunschmann: Lessing, Christian Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 446-448.
Web links
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Christian Friedrich Lessing at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ The statement "grandchildren" is incorrect; Lessing's only child died after a day, see Wikipedia article on the poet.
- ↑ According to Lessingia entry at calflora.net .
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lessing, Christian Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Groß-Wartenberg , Katzengebirge , Lower Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1862 |
| Place of death | Krasnoyarsk |