Daniel Matthias Heinrich Mohr

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Daniel Matthias Heinrich Mohr (born April 8, 1780 in Quickborn , Pinneberg district , Schleswig-Holstein , † August 26, 1808 in Kiel ) was a German naturalist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " D. Mohr ".

Life

Daniel Matthias Heinrich Mohr was born the son of pastor Matthias Mohr (1743–1789) and his wife Christina Sophia Ulrica (1752–1785). His grandparents on the paternal side were the brewer and distiller Matthias (Ties) Mohr and his wife Elisabeth, on the maternal side the chancellery and bailiff Sebastian Daniel Gerckens and his wife Anna Margaretha. Heinrich, as his nickname was, remained unmarried.

At the age of 19 he began his studies in Kiel after his primary school in Husum in 1799. In 1801 he moved to the University of Göttingen . In Kiel he heard the zoological lectures from Johann Christian Fabricius , in Göttingen the botanical lectures from Heinrich Adolf Schrader (1767–1836). Returned to Kiel, he was born on 12 November 1803 with a thesis on Kryptogamen Dr. phil. and then continued his studies on algae and moss . In 1805 he became an adjunct of the Philosophical Faculty of the Christiana Albertina in Kiel and on March 20, 1807 Associate Professor of Zoology and Botany . In Kiel he met Friedrich Weber (1781–1823), son of the doctor and professor of medicine Georg Heinrich Weber . In the Botanical Garden Kiel both Friedrich Weber learned and Heinrich Mohr know botanical basics. In 1810, two years after Mohr's death, Friedrich became the overseer of the Botanical Garden.

Honor taxon

In honor of Heinrich Mohr, the Linnaeus pupil Olof Swartz established the genus Mohria in the fern family Schizaeaceae in 1806 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mohr as a botanist
  2. ↑ Martin Nickol: Algae, Mosses and an Early Death: The Kiel botanist Daniel Matthias Heinrich Mohr (1780–1808).
  3. ↑ Olof Swartz: Synopsis filicum: earum genera et species systematice complectens , Volume 6, page 159. Kiel 1806
  4. ↑ 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 .

literature

  • Martin Nickol: Algae, moss and an early death: the Kiel botanist Daniel Matthias Heinrich Mohr (1780–1808) . In: Kiel notes on botany . Volume 35, Kiel 2007, pp. 1-8 ( PDF ).
  • Ernst Wunschmann:  Mohr, Daniel Matthias Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 65 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Mohr, Daniel Matthias Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Quickborn , Pinneberg District , Schleswig-Holstein
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1808
Place of death Kiel