Ernst Ferdinand Nolte

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The seaweed Zostera noltii was named in honor of Ernst Ferdinand Nolte.

Ernst Ferdinand Nolte (* December 24, 1791 in Hamburg , † February 18, 1875 in Kiel ) was a German botanist who worked on the flora of Schleswig-Holstein and made many contributions to the Flora Danica . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Nolte ".

Life

After taking private lessons in Hamburg , Nolte came to Schwerin at the age of 18 to be prepared for university studies by Hofmedicus Johann David Wilhelm Sachse by teaching ancient languages ​​and the natural sciences. Here Nolte's inclination for botany awoke, which he promoted through numerous botanical excursions. In order not to be drafted into the French army, he finally fled to Goslar and started as an apprentice to the pharmacist Braunholz before he enrolled at the University of Göttingen in the fall of 1813 . He studied medicine, but was also just as eager to do botany, using the acquaintance of men like Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth , Heinrich Gustav Flörke , Göran Wahlenberg , Johann Georg Christian Lehmann and Joakim Frederik Schouw .

Regular excursions took him to various parts of northern Germany. Lauenburg, whose best florist he later became, seems to have been the first to visit in 1815. In 1817 Nolte was promoted to Dr. med. did his doctorate and continued his training in Berlin at the Charité . He botanized together with Schlechtendal . In the fall of 1818 he left Berlin and, after a brief activity as assistant to the botanist Meyer in Göttingen, went to Ratzeburg to his family in the summer of 1820 . During a stay in neighboring Mölln , Nolte met the Copenhagen professor of botany, Jens Wilken Hornemann , who was the editor of Flora Danica .

Nolte became one of his collaborators who, with the support of the Danish government, researched Lauenburg and the Elbe duchies from 1821 to 1823. In 1824, at Hornemann's request, Nolte moved to Copenhagen with his plant treasures and experience . A year later, his first work, Botanical Remarks on Stratiotes and Sagittaria , appeared, which was awarded the silver medal by the Society for Science in Copenhagen. Above all, Nolte depicts the propagation of plants in a vegetative and generative way and gives a progressive representation of their geographical distribution for the time. Nolte explored Zealand , Funen , Jutland and the archipelagos on both coasts of the Schleswig-Holstein mainland.

In the summer of 1826 he received the professorship for botany in Kiel and became director of the Kiel Botanical Garden . His most famous student is the explorer of the flora of Australia, Ferdinand von Mueller . From Kiel, Nolte began to research the flora of the Elbe duchies of Schleswig , Holstein and Lauenburg and made friends with the Hamburg botanist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach , from whom he received support. In 1840 he stopped working for Flora Danica entirely. The botanical garden in Kiel took a strong boom under his leadership, the establishment and expansion of the university herbarium was particularly important to him.

In 1860 his wife, daughter of the physicist Christoph Heinrich Pfaff , died, which left him in a shattered state. His eyesight deteriorated rapidly; Paralysis in his right hand made writing difficult for him, and the severe bronchitis that befell him in 1864 increased his infirmity. At first he looked for relief on cures that led him to Switzerland, Bavaria and Austria. In 1873 he was retired.

Honors

In honor of Nolte, Jens Wilken Hornemann named a seaweed Zostera noltii in the Flora Danica , which was incorporated into the genus Nanozostera in 2001 . Heinrich E. Weber named a blackberry Rubus noltei in 1972 (publ. 1973) . The plant genus Noltea Rchb is also named after him . from the family of buckthorn plants (Rhamnaceae). In 1864 Nolte was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts (selection)

  • Botanical Notes on Stratiotes and Sagittaria . Hartwig Friderich Popp, Copenhagen 1825.
  • Primitiae florae Holsaticae . Suppl. 2: Novitiae florae Holsaticae: sive supplementum alterum Primitiorum Holsaticae GH Weberi . Kiel 1826, online .

literature

  • Karl Koppmann: Ernst Ferdinand Nolte. Communications of the Association for Hamburg History, Vol. 2, Vol. 4. (1881), 9, Sep., pages 118–119.
  • Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach: Ernst Ferdinand Nolte, a Hamburg botanist. Hamburg: Meissner, 1881. 38 pages.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Wunschmann:  Nolte, Ernst Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 760-762.
  2. ↑ http://www.uni-kiel.de/nickol/Garten/Ernst-Ferdinand-Nolte.html
  3. ↑ Fl. Dan. t. 2041.
  4. ↑ Taxon 50 (2): 433 (2001)
  5. ↑ Phanerogam. Monogr., 7: 192 (1972 publ. 1973)
  6. ↑ 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 .

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personal data
SURNAME Nolte, Ernst Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1875
Place of death Kiel