Christian Gottfried Nestler
Christian Gottfried Nestler (also: Chrétien Géofroy , Chrétien Geoffroy ) (born March 1, 1778 in Strasbourg , † October 2, 1832 in Strasbourg) was a professor of botany and pharmacy in Strasbourg. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Nestl. "
Live and act
He was a pharmacist in Alsace and from 1806 to 1810 a military pharmacist . He studied in Paris and was a student of LC Richard . He was in correspondence with Johann Bartholomäus Trommsdorff . He was assistant to Dominique Villars , later professor of botany and pharmacy at the university and director of the Botanical Garden in Strasbourg. In 1830 he discovered the moss Trichostomum viridulum from the Pottiaceae family on the banks of the Rhine . In 1819 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Honors
Kurt Sprengel named the South African sunflower genus Nestlera (Tribus Gnaphalieae ) after him .
Works
- Monographia de Potentilla præmissis nonnullis observationibus circa familiam Rosacearum. 1816
- Index plantarum quae in horto Academ. Argentinensi viguerunt in 1817 ; FG Levrault, 1818
- Discours prononcé à la faculté de médecine à l'occasion de sa rentrée, le onze décembre 1828 ; Levrault FG, 1829
- Notice sur le Sedum repens ; 1830
- Discours prononcés sur la tombe de MCG Nestler, professeur ... décédé le 2 octobre 1832
- Quatre heures de relevée, Grand'rue no. 7 ; with M. Piton; Imprimerie de Mme Ve Silbermann, 1833
- Index alphabeticus: generum, specierum et synonymorum ; 1843; with Jean-Baptiste Mougeot and Wilhelm Philipp Schimper
- Stirpes cryptogamæ vogeso-rhenanæ: quas in Rheni superioris inferiorisque, nec non Vogesorum præfecturis ; 1854; with Mougeot and Schimper
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Christian Gottfried Nestler at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers: Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen p. 355
- ↑ a b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic 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 .
- ↑ Umberto Quattrocchi: CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names at Google Books
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nestler, Christian Gottfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Géofroy, Chrétien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French university lecturer, professor of botany and pharmacy in Strasbourg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1778 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 2, 1832 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg |