Ferdinand Kummer

Festuca bosniaca Kummer & Sendtner 1849 at the natural site (coastal mountains in Montenegro)

Ferdinand Kummer (* 1810 in Moosburg ; † March 22, 1870 in Munich ) was a German botanist . His botanical author abbreviation is “ Kumm. "

Life

Ferdinand Kummer received his PhD in 1835 from the University of Munich with his dissertation De spasmo tonico (printed in 1838). med. PhD . After his studies, he worked initially as an adjunct at the royal herbarium and from 1848 until his death as custodian of the herbarium at the University of Munich.

Ferdinand Kummer and Otto Sendtner are the first to describe the colorful fescue Festuca bosniaca Kummer & Sendtner 1849.

He was a member of the Regensburg Botanical Society since 1840 .

His personal herbarium , rich in collections from Bavaria , came to the royal herbarium of the University of Munich after his death in 1870.

Samples from the Munich Herbarium signed with “Kummer” have been incorrectly assigned to the mycologist Paul Kummer in the past . According to Andreas Bresinsky (1973, p. 38), comparisons of scripts and the collection locations of the documents show that the samples signed with “Kummer” can be attributed to Ferdinand Kummer.

Fonts

• De spasmo tonico . Dissertatio Inauguralis. Giesser, Munich 1838 ( digitized version )
• with Otto Sendtner: Enumeratio plantarum in itinere Sendtneriana in Bosnia lectarum, cum definitionibus novarum specierum et adumbrationibus obscurarum varietatumque . In: Flora, XXXII, Regensburg 1849, pp. 1–10 (sectio prima) ( digitized version) and 753–766 (sectio secunda) ( digitized version )

literature

• Andreas Bresinsky: 200 years of mycology in Bavaria . In: Zeitschrift für Pilzkunde , 39, 1973, pp. 15-38
• Jan-Peter Frahm & Jens Eggers: Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen , 2001, pp. 262–263

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Ferdinand Kummer at the IPNI
• Collectors represented in herbaria M and MSB: Kummer, Ferdinand