Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher

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Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher , also Heinrich Christian Friederich Schumacher (born November 15, 1757 in Glückstadt , † December 9, 1830 in Copenhagen ) was a German botanist , physician and malacologist (molluscologist). Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Schumach. "

Live and act

After his school days in Rendsburg , he worked there as a military surgeon at the age of 16 before starting his studies at the Theatro Anatomica-Chirurgicum in Copenhagen . After graduating in 1779 , he began botanical studies under the guidance of Christian Friis Rottbøll and Martin Vahl .

Schumacher described a variety of West African plants on the basis of the collections and notes by Peter Thonning . In 1808 he was elected a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1814 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Dedication names

The genus Schumacheria Vahl of the Dilleniaceae plant family was named in his honor.

Works

  • Notice of a gunshot wound . (1778)
  • Some myological remarks on the dissection of various corpses . (1779)
  • Of the benefits of the Cotunnian waterways . (1781)
  • Om Slægten " Paullinia " Linn. (1794)
  • Medicinal and surgical remarks (1800)
  • Attempt of an index of the simple minerals to be found in the Danish-Nordic states with tables of the simple fossils according to their predominant components . (1801)
  • Enumeratio plantarum in partibus Saellandiae Septentrionalis et Orientalis (1803)
  • Pharmacopoeia Danica . (1805)
  • Declare . (1807)
  • En unaturlig Födsel efter en sexaarig Frugtsommelighed . (1809)
  • En Sammenvoxning i Endetarmen hævet ved Kunst og Gjennemboring . (1810)
  • Nogle Bemærkninger ang. the forester Bestemmelse af et Saars Dödelighed . (1811)
  • Jagtlagelser over Nyrernes Afgivelser fra the rule-breaking Tilstand . (1824)
  • Medicinsk Plantelære for student læger and Pharmaceutiker . (1826-1828)
  • Om Abens (Simia cynomolgus L.) Hjerne og dens Forretninger, together with Menneskets and other Dyrs Hjerne . (1826)
  • Descriptio musei anthropologici Universitatis Hafniensis . (1828)
  • Deskrivelse af guineiske planter, som ere fundne af danske Botanikere, især af Etatsraad Thonning . (1828–1829) (together with Peter Thonning )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Martin Henrichsen Vahl, p. 122
  2. Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
  3. Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 2045. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7