Franz Peter Cassel
Franz Peter Cassel (also François-Pierre Cassel , born November 3, 1784 in Cologne , † June 8, 1821 in Ghent ) was a German physician and botanist .
Life
Franz Peter Cassel was the son of the Cologne doctor Reiner Joseph Anton Alexander Cassel. After attending the Laurentianum grammar school in Cologne and the Cologne Central School based on the French model, Cassel studied medicine at the University of Göttingen. In 1805 he received his doctorate in Paris. From 1806 he worked as a professor of natural sciences at the central school and the successor institution at the royal Prussian grammar school in Cologne.
In 1817 he went to the University of Ghent, newly founded by King Willem I , to teach natural history . Cassel became director of the Botanical Garden in Ghent and was rector of the university in the school year 1818/19.
On October 6, 1819, he married Colette-Marie-Antoinette de Vliegher.
Cassel belonged to the "Olympic Society" founded around 1809 by the teacher Johann Caspar Schug (1766-1818) and the pedagogue Ferdinand Franz Wallraf . This society was dedicated to cultivating art and literature as well as Cologne humor and dialect. The society met weekly in winter in Wallraf's apartment in the Dompropstei and in summer in a high-altitude restaurant on the bulwark , which the members understood as Olympus and thus gave the society its name.
On January 18, 1819 he was elected a member of the Académie royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres and on October 26, 1819 with the academic surname Laurenberg as a member (matriculation no. 1148) of the Leopoldina . Cassel was also a member of the Mineralogical Society in Jena, the Natural Research Society in Halle and the Wetterau Society for All Natural History in Hanau .
To him, the plant genus was named in honor Casselia Nees & Martius in 1823 from the family of the iron herb plants named.
Fonts
- Dissertatio inauguralis medica, sistens cogitata circa originem et formam morborum systematis nervosi. Parisii 1805 digitized
- Sketches for zoonomy or the life of numbers and shapes. 1808
- Try about the natural families of plants with regard to their healing properties. Rommerskirchen, Cologne 1810 digitized
- The words of a German on the left bank of the Rhine. Cöln 1814 digitized
- Textbook of the natural plant order. Andreean bookstore, Frankfurt am Main, 1817 digitized
- Morphonomia botanica, sive observationes circa proportionem et evolutionem partium plantarum. DuMont-Schauberg, Coloniae Agrippinae 1820 digitized
literature
- Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 249 (archive.org) .
- Rheinisches Conservations-Lexicon or encyclopedic concise dictionary for educated classes. Third volume, C-Cz, Cologne and Bonn 1824, pp. 171–173 digitized
Web links
- Member Post by François-Pierre Cassel in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Napoleon era: Franz Peter Cassel
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Franz Peter Cassel at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Journal d'affiches des arrondissements de Gand, Bruges, Courtrai, Termonde et de la Flandre, October 10, 1819, p. 4 digitized
- ↑ Willi Spiertz: Eberhard von Groote: Life and Work of Cologne Social politician and literary scholar (1789-1864), pp 125-129 Digitalisat
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cassel, Franz Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cassel, François-Pierre; Laurenberg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physician and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1784 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1821 |
| Place of death | Ghent |