Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen

Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen (born September 16, 1775 in Leipzig ; † May 2, 1853 there ) was a German botanist and bryologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Schwägr. "

Live and act

Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen comes from a merchant family based in Leipzig. He went to school there and attended the University of Leipzig . In 1798 he became a master's; he received his doctorate and habilitation in 1799 as a doctor under Johannes Hedwig . From 1801 to 1803 he was a private lecturer in botany at the Medical Faculty of the University of Leipzig, from 1803 to 1815 Professor of Natural History at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig and, initially overlapping, from 1807 to 1852 Professor of Botany at the Medical Faculty. In 1815 he took over the full professorship for natural history at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig. He ceded a large part of his own garden to the university to set up a botanical garden , which he took over as director. In 1837 he handed over the management of the Botanical Garden to Gustav Kunze ; In 1852 he retired from all university offices. In 1799 he published two parts of the Topographiae botanicae et entomologicae Lipsiensis specimen , which he followed in 1806 with the final part with newly discovered species. After Johannes Hedwig's death in 1801, he published the standard work on bryology by Johannes Hedwig, which started the nomenclature of the genus names for deciduous and liverworts that are still valid today . From 1811 to 1814 three supplements were published in six volumes, in which Schwägrichen described other mosses with 300 colored plates. In 1830 he took over the finishing of the mosses in the fourth edition of Carl von Linnés Species Plantarum, edited by Carl Ludwig Willdenow . In 1853 he fell down a flight of stairs and died of the consequences of the accident. One of his best-known students was the America researcher and botanist Eduard Friedrich Poeppig .

Honors

From 1808 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Schwägrichen was an honorary member of the Medical Society in Leipzig and was elected a founding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences on July 1, 1846 . Schwägrichenstrasse in the music district in Leipzig is named after him. In 1818 he was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Dedication names

In 1815 Kurt Sprengel named the genus Schwaegrichenia from the Haemodoraceae family in honor of Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen. Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach established a genus of the same name in the balsam tree family in 1828 .

Works (selection)

• Guide to teaching natural history for schools, 2nd volume, Leipzig 1803.
• Topographiae botanicae et entomologicae Lipsiensis, 4 vols., 1799-1806.
• Instructions for the study of botany, Leipzig 1806.
• Historiae Muscorum hepaticorum prodromus, Leipzig 1814.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Medical Society of Leipzig, your honorary member, the senior of the Medicinische Facultät, Prof. Dr. Christian Friedrich Schwaegrichen on September 16, 1848, the day he completed his master's degree fifty years ago. Leipzig 1848.
2. ^ Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
3. ^ Directory of the Saxon Academy

literature

• Medical Society of Leipzig, your honorary member, the senior of the Medicinische Facultät Prof. Dr. Christian Friedrich Schwaegrichen on September 16, 1848, the day he received his master's degree fifty years ago (Festschrift), Leipzig 1848.
• Ernst Wunschmann:  Schwägrichen, Christian Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 175.
• New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen at the IPNI
• Overview of Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1814 to summer semester 1852)