David Heinrich Hoppe

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David Heinrich Hoppe

David Heinrich Hoppe , also David Henri or David-Henri and David Henry , (born December 15, 1760 in Bruchhausen-Vilsen , † August 1, 1846 in Regensburg ) was a German doctor, botanist and pharmacist , as well as entomologist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Hoppe ".

Life

Hoppe was born the youngest of 16 children of the merchant and trader Arend Hoppe and his wife Elisabeth, a Diepholz pharmacist's daughter. His siblings took him to school at an early age, so that he could read and "declaim" at the age of four. He attended Latin school and then learned pharmacy in Celle . As a pharmacist's assistant he came to Regensburg via Hamburg , Halle and Wolfenbüttel in 1786. The Danube - and Jura - Flora told him a rich field for its research activities.

Hoppe first visited Salzburg in 1798 to botanize on the Untersberg . With only a few exceptions, he was to return annually until 1843 and climbed the Salzburg high throne for the last time exactly three years before his death .

He laid out herbaria , sent the collected splendid specimens to colleagues and made great contributions to research into the alpine flora.

Act

Memorial plaque on the protective rock Pentling

On May 14, 1790, Hoppe founded the Regensburg Botanical Society, the first botanical society in Bavaria , the oldest still existing botanical society in the world. From 1812 until his death in 1846 he was its director / chairman.

From 1790 to 1804 he published his Botanisches Taschenbuch , which appeared from 1805 to 1811 as the Neues Botanisches Taschenbuch , and, under the editorship of the Botanical Society in Regensburg, the Botanische Zeitung (Jg. 1-6, 1802-1807).

From 1818 to 1834 he was sole editor and from 1834 to 1842 together with August Emanuel Fürnrohr the editor of the scientific journal Flora or Botanische Zeitung . For a time he was also the editor of the memoranda of the Regensburg Botanical Society (title from Volume 29 [1971]: Hoppea ).

In 1820 Hoppe was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Stays in Heiligenblut am Großglockner

His stays in Heiligenblut are listed here chronologically according to the sources.

  • 1802: For three weeks in the summer of 1802.
  • 1813: Together with Pichler, he entered the chamois pit .
  • 1833: That year he stayed outdoors in the chamois pit.
  • 1841: last stay.

Discoveries on the Großglockner

Helmut Gams (1936): (With a vegetation map 1:25 000) - Treatises of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Austria - 16_2: 1 - 79.

Publications

  • Ectypa plantarum ratisbonensium, or imprints of those plants that grow wild around Regensburg. Regensburg 1787–1793.
  • Enumeratio Insectorum Elytratorum Circa Erlangam Indigenarum Observationibus Iconibusque Illustrata. Erlangen 1795.
  • Botanical trip to some of the Salzburg, Carinthian and Tyrolean Alps 1799. Bot. Taschenbuch f. 1799, 1800. Numerous other travel reports and correspondence there 1801-3 and in Flora, Bot. Zeitung 1802-1811.
  • Together with HG Flörke: About the gradations of vegetation in the Salzburg mountains. Hoppes Bot. Paperback, 1800.

Honors

  • In his honor was the genus Hoppea Willd. (belongs to the tribe Chironieae (G.Don) Endlicher ) of the gentian family (Gentianaceae).
  • The so-called memoranda of the Regensburg Botanical Society, for which Hoppe was the editor for a time, have been called Hoppea since 1971 (from volume 29) .
  • In honor of David Heinrich Hoppe, who was born in (Bruchhausen-) Vilsen and whose work was and is of supra-regional importance, there is a bronze memorial plaque in the Kurpark Bruchhausen-Vilsen (size: 55 cm × 90 cm). It bears the following text:
Dr. med. David Heinrich Hoppe / b. December 15, 1760 in Vilsen / died August 1, 1846 in Regensburg. / DH Hoppe founded with / like-minded friends / in 1790 the 1. / "Botanical Society" in Regensburg. / The botanist, pharmacist / and doctor DH Hoppe described / more than 200 plant species / for the first time and / gave them their scientific / scientific names.
  • A street in Bruchhausen-Vilsen, which runs directly north of the Bruchhausen-Vilsen- Asendorf small railway and roughly parallel to the street “Am Bürgerpark”, is called “David-Hoppe-Weg”.
  • A street in Regensburg was also named after him: Hoppe-Straße.
  • In the Max-Schultze-Steig nature reserve on the western outskirts of Regensburg, the Hoppe rock is named after him. There he founded the "Royal Bavarian Botanical Society" with Charles Francois Jeunet Duval and Franz Gabriel de Bray in 1790, today the "Regensburg Botanical Society of 1790 eV", the oldest existing botanical society in the world.

See also

Nature self print

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Gams: Contributions to the plant-geographic map of Austria. I. The vegetation of the Grossglockner area. In: Treatises of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Berlin. Volume XVI, Issue 2, Vienna 1936, p. 2 ( PDF (62.9 MB) on ZOBODAT , accessed on March 19, 2013).
  2. Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names. Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin, Berlin 2018 ( bgbm.org ).