Ferdinand Alpers
Ferdinand Alpers (born December 5, 1842 in Spieka ; † February 16, 1912 in Hanover ) was a German teacher, author and philologist . The botanist , collector and researcher wrote a 450-page biography about Friedrich Ehrhart and, according to the address book of the city of Hanover from 1974, has made a name for himself through numerous "contributions to natural history and especially to research into Hanoverian flora ".
Live and act
Ferdinand Alpers was born under the Kingdom of Hanover as the son of the teacher C. Alpers. After attending the grammar school in Verden and the teachers' seminar in Stade , he was first employed in Achim as a teacher, then as rector in Zeven and finally as a teacher at the seminar schools in Stade and Hanover.
In 1887 he became a member of the Natural History Society , where he has been a member of the botanical department since its foundation.
Alpers maintained extensive personal and written correspondence with important botanists of his time such as Paul Friedrich August Ascherson , Paul Graebner , Wilhelm Olbers Focke , Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau and Carl Nöldeke .
In Herrenhausen , Alpers was friends with the pastor A. Stölting, the Marstall commissioner G. Preuss and the senior teacher H. Steinvorth. He regularly gathered a small group of botanists around him on Tuesdays from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., who called these meetings "Erhartia".
During his summer vacation, Alpers undertook extensive journeys for botanical studies to Switzerland , the North Sea islands, the Harz Mountains , Thuringia , Silesia , Moravia and the Black Forest .
Ferdinand Alpers suffered from a lung disease towards the end of his life. He had already given his book collection and herbaria to the Royal Seminary when he retired.
Alpershof
- The Alpershof street, laid out in 1973 in the Hanover district of Davenstedt , has since honored the researcher with its name.
Fonts
- Directory of the vascular plant of the Landdrostei city , 1875
- Contributions to the flora of the districts of the Duchy of Bremen and Verden , 1875
- Instructions for a methodical lesson in botany , revision of the previously published by Lüben. Work, 1879
- On the flora of the Stade administrative district , 1887
- The oldest directory of plants growing wild in Germany , 1900
- Ms. Ehrhart, Königl. Great Britain. Botanist of Hanover , 1902
- Contributions to the flora of Sylt , 1904
- Ferdinand Alpers (Ed.): Friedrich Ehrhart. Messages from his life and his writings. Using previously unpublished documents as well as letters from Ehrhart and his widow (= separate writings of the Verein für Naturkunde an dem Unterweser , Vol. 2), with portraits (plates) Ehrharts, Andreaes and Ústeris, Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1905
literature
- C. Engelke: Ferdinand Alpers † , obituary in: Annual report of the Lower Saxony Botanical Association (Botanical Department of the Natural History Society of Hanover) , Vol. 4 and 5 (1913), pp. IIf .; online via the collection of digital journals of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
- Dirk Böttcher : ALPERS, (1) Ferdinand. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 27.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dirk Böttcher: ALPERS ... (see literature)
- ↑ Compare the GND number of the German National Library
- ↑ a b c d e f g C. Engelke: Ferdinand Alpers † (see literature)
- ↑ a b Helmut Zimmermann : Alpershof. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 11f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alpers, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist, author and editor, collector and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Spieka |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 1912 |
| Place of death | Hanover |