Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel

Ernst Gottlieb (Theophil) von Steudel (born May 30, 1783 in Esslingen ; † May 12, 1856 ibid) was a German doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Steud. "

Life

He was the son of Johann Samson Steudel and Regina Catherina Burk . The physician and entomologist Wilhelm Steudel was his nephew. On August 6, 1811 he married Augusta Rosina Sophia Bührer (born August 11, 1787) in Echterdingen ( Neckarkkreis ) , the daughter of Victor Matthäus Bührer and Rosina Elisabeth Godelmann.

From 1801 Steudel studied medicine and natural sciences in Tübingen , where he received his doctorate in 1805. After a stay in Switzerland, he spent some time in Vienna and Halle and returned to Esslingen in 1806, where he established himself as a general practitioner. Soon afterwards he was given the position of senior veterinary surgeon and in 1828 became the city's medical officer.

Steudel had been a corresponding member of the Senckenberg Natural Research Society since 1822 . In 1826 he became a member of the Leopoldina . He was also a co-founder of the Esslingen travel association .

His son, Hellmuth Steudel (1816–1886), was a doctor and official physician in Esslingen. His father named the plant genus Hellmuthia Steud after him in 1850 . from the sourgrass family (Cyperaceae).

The Esslingen travel association

Fonts

In addition to his professional activity, he also devoted himself to botany and published some works on it. From 1821 to 1824 his work Nomenclator botanicus was published , in which he alphabetically recorded the names and synonyms of all plant species and genera. In the second edition, which appeared twenty years later, 6,722 genera and 78,005 species were listed by name. In addition to the family and the growing area, the synonyms and the literature references are also listed there. For a long time this work was considered to be an important basic work of botanical taxonomy. It served as a model for Charles Darwin when in 1882 he entrusted Joseph Dalton Hooker with the creation of an index of flowering plants, the Index Kewensis . Benjamin Daydon Jackson , commissioned by Hooker as the author, used Steudel's Nomenclator as the first basis for listing the species names.

In a further work, the "Synopsis plantarum glumacearum", which was planned to be in eleven volumes, two booklets were published in 1855 in which the Gramineae , the Cyperaceae and the Juncaceae and related taxa are treated.

In 1826 he published the work Enumeratio plantarum germaniae helvetiaeque indigenarum seu Prodromus, quem synopsin plantarum germaniae helvetiaeque edituri botanophilisque adjuvandam commendantes with the Esslingen city pastor Christian Ferdinand Hochstetter , in which all plant species found in Germany and Switzerland are recorded. He also published medical papers.

Taxonomic honor

In his honor, Kurt Sprengel created the genus Steudelia Spreng in 1822 . from the plant family of erythroxylaceae (Erythroxylaceae), 1891, the genus Steudelago Kuntze of the family Rubiaceae (Rubiaceae) and 1930, the genus Steudelella Honda from the family of grasses named (Poaceae).

literature

Ernst Wunschmann: Steudel, Ernst Gottlieb von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 151 f.
Johann Gottlob von Kurr : Lectures. In: Annual booklet of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg No. 13, Stuttgart 1857, pp. 17–24.
Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck : Dr. Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel. In: Bonplandia , Volume 4, 1856, p. 176.
Arno Wörz: The Esslingen Botanical Travel Association 1825–1845. A stock corporation for the implementation of natural history collecting trips. (= Stuttgart contributions to the history of science and technology. Volume 9). Logos Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-8325-4211-5 .

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel at the IPNI
Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library

Individual evidence

^ List of members Leopoldina, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel
^ ^A ^b ^c Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic 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 .
^ Benjamin Dayton Jackson: The new 'Index of Plant-Names'. In: The Botanical Journal - British and Foreign. Vol. XXV. West, Newman & Co., London 1887, pp. 66-71.
^ Benjamin Dayton Jackson: The new 'Index of Plant-Names'. (Concluded from p. 71) In: The Botanical Journal - British and Foreign. Vol. XXV. West, Newman & Co., London 1887, pp. 150-151.

personal data
SURNAME	Steudel, Ernst Gottlieb from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Steudel, Ernst Theophil von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 30, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH	Esslingen
DATE OF DEATH	May 12, 1856
Place of death	Esslingen

[1] List of members Leopoldina, Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel

[Burkhardt_2018-2] A ^b ^c Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic 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 .

[3] Benjamin Dayton Jackson: The new 'Index of Plant-Names'. In: The Botanical Journal - British and Foreign. Vol. XXV. West, Newman & Co., London 1887, pp. 66-71.

[4] Benjamin Dayton Jackson: The new 'Index of Plant-Names'. (Concluded from p. 71) In: The Botanical Journal - British and Foreign. Vol. XXV. West, Newman & Co., London 1887, pp. 150-151.