Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau

Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau

Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau (born January 12, 1831 in Kassel , † April 23, 1906 in Bremen ) was a German botanist and educator . His botanical author's abbreviation is " Buchenau ".

biography

Buchenau was the son of a bank employee. He attended a secondary school and since 1845 the polytechnic school in Kassel. From 1848 he studied at the Philipps University of Marburg and from 1850 at the Georg-August University of Göttingen a . a. Botany and obtained a doctorate with a botanical dissertation . He then became a brief teacher at a private school in Hanau and, after its closure, a private tutor and then a teacher in Friedrichsdorf in what is now the Hochtaunus district .

In 1855 he got a job as a substitute teacher at the higher citizen school of Henry Graefe in Bremen Old Town. After Graefe's death, he took over the management of this now state school and received the title of professor. According to the Prussian model, he converted the school to a secondary school of the 2nd order with the designation secondary school in the old town .

Buchenau wrote a local history book in 1862 with the title The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and its Territory , in which he described the history and landscape of and around Bremen. In 1864 he was the co-founder of the Natural Science Association in Bremen , of which he was chairman from 1887 to 1902. He gave numerous lectures and enjoyed a great reputation in Bremen. His book on local history was published in 1882 and 1900, and in the meantime - in multiple editions - his most famous works with the titles Flora von Bremen and Flora der Ostfriesische Insel as well as other books on botany were published. To the work The Plant Kingdom by Adolf Engler he contributed to “Tropaeolaceae” (1902), “Scheuchzeriaceae, Alismataceae et Butomaceae” (1903) and “Juncaceae” (1906). For the work The Natural Plant Families by Engler and Prantl he wrote "Juncaginaceae, Alismaceae, Butomaceae" (Volume 2 No. 1, 1889) and "Juncaceae" (Volume 2 No. 5, 1887).

In 1902 he fell ill and resigned from school in 1903.

The numismatist Heinrich Buchenau was his eldest son, the fourth son Siegfried Buchenau became a merchant and art collector.

Honors

• August Wilhelm Eichler named the genus after him in 1866 Buchenavia from the family of combretaceae (Combretaceae).
• The book Austraße in Bremen- Sebaldsbrück was named after him.
• Several species of plants from different families were named after him, e.g. B. Triglochin Buchenaui ( Juncaginaceae ).
• In 1866 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Works

• Flora of Bremen . 1877, urn : nbn: de: gbv: 46: 1-126 (2nd edition. 1879; from the 3rd edition in 1885 under the title Flora von Bremen and Oldenburg. 9th edition. 1927 by FAG Bitter and Bruno Schütt, 10 Edition. 1936 by Bruno Schütt with the title Flora von Bremen, Oldenburg, Ostfriesland and the East Frisian Islands. ).
• Flora of the East Frisian Islands . 1881 (further editions 1891, 1896 (with addendum 1901) and 1901).
• Flora of the Northwest German Plain . 1894.
• Critical additions to the flora of the Northwest German Plain . 1904.
• About consistency of botanical art expressions and abbreviations . 1894, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-114216 .
• The development of the city of Bremen up to the completion of the old town in 1305. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch 1896. pp. 1–32.
• The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and its area . Bremen 1862 (digitized version) Bremen 1882 (2nd edition). Bremen 1900 (3rd edition). (Digitized version)
• The catch tower. A look into the history of our city. In: Bremer Nachrichten . June 6, 1903.
• The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. A local lore . 4th, exp. Edition. ed. Dietrich Steilen. Geist-Verlag, Bremen 1934.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
• Monika Porsch: Bremen Street Lexicon. Volume 9: Vahr, Oberneuland . Verlag Schmetterling, Bremen 1999, ISBN 3-932249-05-4 .
• Wilhelm Olbers Focke : Franz Buchenau . In: Treatises published by the Natural Science Association in Bremen. 19 (1), 1907, pp. 1-19. BHL (obituary including bibliography).
• Wilhelm Olbers Focke : Buchenau, Franz. In: Bremische Biographie of the nineteenth century . Bremen 1929, pp. 63-71. (Digitized version)

swell

• Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
2. ^ The International Plant Names Index (2011). Published on the Internet http://www.ipni.org/ [accessed 6 December 2011]

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Franz Georg Philipp Buchenau at the IPNI