Christoph Ludwig Köberlin

Christoph Ludwig Köberlin (born March 16, 1794 in Volkratshofen near Memmingen , † April 29, 1862 in Eysölden , buried there on April 30, 1862) was the pastor and botanist who introduced the young Sebastian Kneipp to herbal medicine.

family

Christoph Ludwig Köberlin was born in 1794 as the son of a pastor who was also interested in botanicals. He had been married to Helene Elisabeth Zangmeister since 1819. He had the sons: Karl Ludwig Thuerecht Köberlin (born May 27, 1821 in Burggrub / Upper Palatinate), who later became a teacher and rector; Ludwig AC Köberlin jun. (* Dickenreishausen), studied in Kempten; Reinhold Köberlin, was a pastor in Ederheim near Nördlingen in the Donauries. Christoph Ludwig's grandson was the Reichsbahnoberrat Köberlin in Munich.

Life

Köberlin was a royal Bavarian Evangelical Reformed pastor and botanist who introduced the young Sebastian Kneipp to herbal medicine. The plant genus Koeberliniaceae with the plant species Koeberlinia spinosa is named after him. His botanical author's abbreviation is “ Köb. ".

Köberlin attended grammar school in Augsburg and studied theology in Erlangen from 1813 to 1817, where Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini also studied, with whom he made lifelong friends and later also exchanged plants. He was a member of the botanical society. Köberlin was pastor: 1819 in Burggrub in the Obermainkreis; 1824 in Grönenbach near the fortress Rothenstein; 1834 to 1849 in Dickenreishausen; 1849 in Kempten (deanery) and since July 1852 pastor in Eysölden . He researched the flora of Upper Swabia , the Allgäu , in particular the Memminger Ried, its parishes and the Alps . His own publications about his research are not yet known. Köberlin left a handwritten directory of Memmingen's moss flora. His herbarium is in the Memmingen city archive. After the death of his father, his son Reinhold put his herbarium and book collection out for sale. Whether this offered herbarium and the one in the Memmingen city archive are the same remains to be checked. With the decision of the market council of Bad Grönenbach on November 23, 2010, a street in a new development area was named "Köberlinstraße" after this researcher.

literature

• Jan-Peter Frahm , Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists , Volume 2
• Adolf Engler , Karl Anton Eugen Prantl , Hermann Harms , Johannes Mattfeld : The natural family of plants along with their genera and more important species, especially the useful plants . Volume 17, Part 2, Page 193, 1924.
• Irmgard Prommersberger, remember your teachers who told you the word of God - We carry this treasure in earthen vessels (pastor's board), published in: Die Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchengemeinde Eysölden - yesterday and today, 2002, p. 23, ISBN 3-00 -010228-0 .

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Christoph Ludwig Köberlin at the IPNI