David Nathaniel Friedrich Dietrich

David Nathaniel Friedrich Dietrich (born October 3, 1799 in Ziegenhain , † December 23, 1888 in Jena ) was a German botanist and gardener. His botanical author abbreviation is " D.Dietr. "

Life

Dietrich devoted himself to botany and from 1828 worked as an academic botanical gardener in Jena. In 1836 he received his doctorate from the University of Jena . Dietrich became curator of the herbarium (see Jena Botanical Garden ) of the University of Jena under Ernst Stahl .

He was the nephew of the botanist Friedrich Gottlieb Dietrich (1765-1850), who was court garden director in Eisenach .

Fonts

Dietrich wrote writings on poisonous plants, mosses and forest flora of the flora of Germany as well as several botanical lexicons. In his five-volume Synopsis Plantarum , written between 1839 and 1852, over 80,000 species and 524 genera are described. Germany's Flora from 1833 to 1864, also in five volumes, contains 1150 partly colored plates. Flora Universalis , comprising 476 booklets , was published between 1831 and 1861.

Here is a list of some of his writings:

• Germany's poisonous plants, arranged according to natural families, with illustrations. (1826).
• Forest flora ... (1828–1833).
• Flora universalis ... (1828–1861).
• Flora medica ... (1831-1835).
• Lichenographia germanica… (1832–1837).
• Germany's economic flora ... (1841–1844).

literature

• Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for David Nathaniel Friedrich Dietrich at the IPNI
• Nathan Friedrich David Dietrich . david-dietrich.de; short biography entry

Individual evidence

1. ↑ October 3, 1799 according to Zander; at david-dietrich.de the year 1800 is given without a precise date.
2. ↑ December 23, 1888 according to Zander; at david-dietrich.de, October 23, 1888 is given.