Christoph Jacob Trew

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Portrait published in his work Plantae selectae

Christoph Jacob Trew [ trɔʏ̯ ] (born April 26, 1695 in Lauf an der Pegnitz , † July 18, 1769 in Nuremberg ), also written Treu , was a German doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Trew ".

Live and act

Trew was the son of a pharmacist, studied medicine in Altdorf near Nuremberg and then began a three-year study trip. In 1721 he settled in Nuremberg.

In addition to his medical practice, he carried out basic medical research and taught at the university. On January 27, 1727 he was admitted to the Leopoldina as a member ( matriculation number 394 ) with the academic surname Heraclianus .

He was the patron and friend of the plant painter Georg Dionysius Ehret . Many of Ehret's plant drawings went to Trew and later served as illustrations for his works Hortus nitidissimus (1750–1786) and Plantae selectae (1750–1773).

His journalistic activities made him particularly important: from 1731 on, Trew founded and oversaw one of the very first medical journals, the weekly "Commercium litterarium ad rei medicinae et scientiae naturalis" .

As an academic “networker”, Trew corresponded with colleagues across Europe for this magazine for 15 years. In 1743 he became Director Ephemeris of the Imperial Leopoldine Carolingian Academy of Natural Scientists and as such published the Leopoldina magazine. On April 17, 1746 he was accepted as a member of the Royal Society . He also used his international contacts to put together several collections that are now considered to be among the most extensive of the early modern times in their respective fields: Trew left behind the largest known collection of letters with a medical and scientific focus (it contains more than 19,000 letters, including from Albrecht von Haller , Conrad Gessner , Lorenz Heister and Johann Peter Ernst von Scheffler ).

Its library, which contains over 34,000 volumes (including many invaluable unique items), is one of the largest natural history stores of knowledge of its time. In 1768 he left his entire collection to the University of Altdorf . After the university was dissolved in 1809, it was transferred to the university library in Erlangen , which it still has today. There are also five of his six family books, which he kept from 1713 to 1769 and in which numerous important representatives of European intellectual life have entered. The associated collection of 19,000 letters was looked through and cataloged by Eleonore Schmidt-Herrling between 1930 and 1940 , who also helped with the historical description of the book inventory.

Trew's grave is in the Johannisfriedhof in Nuremberg.

Honors

The East Indian plant genus Trewia from the milkweed family is named after Trew . It was established by Carl von Linné and comprises two species, including the Trewia nudiflora (Gutelbaum). The plant genera Afrotrewia Pax & K.Hoffm. , Neotrewia Pax & K.Hoffm. , Wetria Baill. and Wetriaria Pax , all of the Euphorbiaceae family, are named after him.

In addition, the state high school in Lauf an der Pegnitz was named after him on March 1, 1996.

Fonts

  • Hortus nitidissimus ... (1750–1786).
  • Plantae selectae… pinxit Georgius Dionysius Ehret… doi : 10.5962 / bhl.title.816 (1750–1773, supplement 1790).
  • Plantae rariores… 1763.
  • Christoph Jacob Trew: Uitgezochte Planten… 1771 (Dutch translation by Plantae selectae ).
  • Herbarium Blackwellianum… Nürnberg, doi : 10.5962 / bhl.title.567 (1757–1773; new edition of A Curious Herbal [1737/39] created by Elizabeth Blackwell ).
  • Christoph Jacob Trew: Tabulae Osteologicae… Nuremberg 1767 ( ub.uni-heidelberg.de ).

literature

  • Eleonore Schmidt-Herrling: The letter collection of the Nuremberg doctor Christoph Jacob Trew. Erlangen 1940.
  • Collection of letters from Trew (on 3204 microfiches). Harald Fischer Verlag, Erlangen 2006, ISBN 3-89131-477-9 (since 2006 also available online for a fee)
  • Susanne Grosser: Medical correspondence in the early modern period: the correspondence between Peter Christian Wagner and Christoph Jacob Trew; Analysis and annotated edition . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston MA 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-041140-9 ; at the same time dissertation University Erlangen-Nürnberg 2014.
  • Thomas Schnalke : Knowledge organization and knowledge communication in the 18th century: Christoph Jacob Trew . European History Online , ed. from the Institute for European History (Mainz) , 2012, urn : nbn: de: 0159-2011121249 .
  • Thomas Schnalke: Medicine in a letter. The eighteenth-century urban doctor as reflected in his correspondence. (= Sudhoffs Archive, Supplements Vol. 37). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997.
  • Thomas Schnalke: Nature in Pictures. Anatomy and botany in the collection of the Nuremberg doctor Christoph Jacob Trew. An exhibition on the occasion of his 300th birthday. (= Writings of the University Library Erlangen-Nürnberg, Vol. 27). Erlangen 1995.
  • Hubert Steinke (Ed.): The useful letter. The correspondence between Albrecht von Haller and Christoph Jakob Trew 1733–1763. Basel 1999 (= Studia Halleriana, V)
  • Bernd Ullrich: Christoph Jacob Trews colored plant drawings . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 44, No. 4, 1993, pp. 80-85
  • Ernst Wunschmann:  Trew, Christoph Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 593-595.

Web links

Commons : Christoph Jakob Trew  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Schnalke: Trew, Christoph Jacob. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1419.
  2. ↑ Member entry of Christoph Jakob Trew at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 21, 2016.
  3. ^ Thomas Schnalke: Knowledge organization and knowledge communication in the 18th century: Christoph Jacob Trew . European History Online (EGO), ed. from the Institute for European History (IEG), Mainz 2012.
  4. ^ Marion Mücke, Thomas Schnalke: Briefnetz Leopoldina: the correspondence of the German Academy of Natural Scientists around 1750 . Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
  5. ↑ 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 .
  6. ↑ Brief portrait | Christoph-Jacob-Treu-Gymnasium Lauf an der Pegnitz. Retrieved October 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Trew, Christoph Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Treu, Christoph Jacob; Trew, Christoph Jakob; Heraclianus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH Run on the Pegnitz
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1769
Place of death Nuremberg