Christian Schkuhr

Christian Schkuhr (born May 14, 1741 in Pegau , † July 17, 1811 in Wittenberg ) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Schkuhr ".

Live and act

Schkuhr was a trained gardener who helped found the Botanical Garden in Kassel in 1765 and then visited gardens in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands for several years. On his return he moved to Leipzig, where he attended lectures on botanical subjects, and became a university mechanic in Wittenberg.

Several botanical works originate from him, for which he made the copper plates himself. He also built the microscopes he used himself.

He was a supporter of the system of Carl von Linné . Several initial descriptions come from him, such as the one for the root ledges .

Honors

After him, the plant genera Schkuhria Roth and Platyschkuhria (A.Gray) Rydb. named from the sunflower family (Asteraceae).

Fonts

Botanical handbook of the mostly wild growing plants in Germany: partly foreign plants perennial in Germany under the open sky, 3 parts, 1791 1796, 1803
Description and illustration of the partly known and partly not yet described species of sedge according to our own observations and an enlarged representation of the smallest parts, 1801, 1806
- French edition: Histoire des Carex ou laiches, contenant la description et les figures coloriées de toutes les espèces connues et d'un grand nombre d'espèces nouvelles. 1802
Enchiridion botanicum, seu descriptiones et icones plantarum in Europa vel sponte crescentium vel in hortis sub Dio perdurantium, 1805
Fourth and twentieth class of the Linnaeus plant system or cryptogamic plants. I-II, Wittenberg 1804-1810
Germany's cryptogamic plants, or the 24th class of the Linnaeus system. 1806 to 1810

literature

Ernst Wunschmann: Schkuhr, Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 315.

Individual evidence

↑ 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 .

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Christian Schkuhr at the IPNI (without mosses)

personal data
SURNAME	Schkuhr, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 14, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pegau
DATE OF DEATH	July 17, 1811
Place of death	Wittenberg

[Burkhardt_2018-1] 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 .