Ernst Hampe

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Ernst Hampe on the cover picture of a reprint of his main work

Ernst Georg Ludwig Hampe (born July 5, 1795 in Fürstenberg (Weser) , Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , † November 23, 1880 in Helmstedt , Duchy of Braunschweig ) was a German pharmacist and bryologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Hampe ", but it is also the abbreviation " Hamp. " in use.

Life

Memorial plaque on Marktstrasse 31 in Blankenburg

Hampe attended high school in Holzminden and began an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in his uncle's pharmacy in Brakel in 1810 . After completing his apprenticeship, he volunteered in a campaign to Brabant . He then began another apprenticeship in the Hirsch pharmacy in Halle (Saale) . There he met Kurt Sprengel and Georg Friedrich Kaulfuss . In 1817 he went to Worms before moving to Göttingen in 1818 , where he worked at the university pharmacy. He also took part in lectures by Sprengel at the University of Göttingen .

In 1820 he passed his exam in Kassel . He then worked as a pharmacist in Allendorf before moving to the Mühlenpfordt'sche pharmacy on Hagenmarkt in Braunschweig . In 1825, Hampe took over the local pharmacy in Blankenburg , which he managed until 1864. During his time in Blankenburg he mainly dealt with the collection of plant drugs and the resin flora. In 1832 he and the pharmacist Hornung founded the Natural Science Association of the Harz Mountains in Aschersleben . Through contacts with Carl Müller , Hampe came to research on non-European mosses, especially the deciduous mosses . Hampe began to work on various collections, including from the United States , Mexico , Puerto Rico , Colombia , Ecuador , Peru , Brazil , South Africa , Madagascar , Sri Lanka , Borneo , Australia and New Zealand . Through joint research by Hampe and Müller, a total of 1372 new species of deciduous moss were recorded between 1827 and 1851. Carl Müller named a genus Hampeella Müll in honor of Hampe . Hal . Hampe described some new species, including astromum , Sporledera , Leucobryum and Sphaerothecium .

Hampe received the title of professor for his publication Flora Hercynica before he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1875. On October 22nd, 1874 ( registration number 2144 ) he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

After the death of his eldest son Georg, who took his own life in the Blankenburg pharmacy in 1876 due to economic difficulties, Hampe sold the pharmacy and moved in with his second son Karl, who worked as a doctor in Helmstedt. His wife had died in 1872.

Hampe died of paralysis . The British Museum of Natural History received his herbarium with around 25,000 specimens.

Fonts

  • with Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling : Vegetabilia cellularia in Germania septentrionale praesertim in Hercynia et in agro Gottingensi. 1832-1845
  • Prodromus florae Hercyniae or directory of the plants growing wild in the Harz region . Gebauer, Halle 1836 ( archive )
  • Icones muscorum novorum vel minus cognitorum . Bonn 1844 ( Google Books )
  • Flora Hercynica or list of the vascular plants growing wild in the Harz region . G. Schwetschke'scher Verlag , Halle 1873 ( archive )
  • Review of the flora of the Harz region . In: Negotiations of the Botanical Association of the Province of Brandenburg, 17, Berlin 1875 ( archive )
  • Enumeratio muscorum hactenus in provinciis Brasiliensibus Rio de Janeiro et São Paulo detectorum. AF Høst, Copenhagen 1879 ( archive )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Hampe, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hampe, Ernst Georg Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist and bryologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenberg (Weser)
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1880
Place of death Helmstedt