Franz Willibald Schmidt
Franz Willibald Schmidt , also Franz Wilibald Schmidt (born July 7, 1764 in Plan , Bohemia , † February 2, 1796 in Prague ) was a Bohemian botanist and plant painter. His botanical author abbreviation is " FWSchmidt ".
Live and act
Schmidt was a professor of botany in Prague. He wrote several works on flora of Bohemia as well as on physical-economic topics. His work Flora Boëmica inchoata was created from 1794 to 1795 .
In a section on Botanical Explorers in this work, Schmidt deals with many research personalities and their research trips. Among them are Franz Wilhelm Sieber , who was always in financial difficulties due to his countless research trips, Thaddäus Haenke , the discoverer of the giant water lily Victoria regia (today Victoria amazonica ), the South America travelers Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl and Friedrich von Berchtold , the Indian traveler Johann Wilhelm Helpers , the Central and North American travelers August Karl Joseph Corda and G. Menzel, the brothers Presl and Josef Ruprecht. A separate section is devoted to Philipp Maximilian Opiz (1787–1858); He is in it as the “spiritual center of the botanists of Bohemia in the first half of the XIX. Century ". In a further section, The Floristic Exploration of the Country , the areas of Bohemia are discussed individually. Chapter 6 deals with plant care in Bohemia in the 18th and first half of the 19th century; The topics include the parks of Bohemia, the introduction of ornamental and cultivated plants and the establishment of the Bohemian Horticultural Society. The 7th and final chapter deals with the history of botany in Bohemia over the past decades, followed by a list of sources and an index of persons and subjects.
Honors
After him, the plant genera Schmidtia Moench from the daisy family (Asteraceae) and Wilibalda Sternb are. together with Wilibald-Schmidtia Conrad from the sweet grass family (Poaceae).
Fonts
- New and rare plants ... 1793.
- Flora Boëmica inchoata, exhibens plantarum regui Boemiae indigenarum species . (1793-1794).
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Schmidt, Franz Willibald . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 30th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1875, p. 243 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names. Edited by Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Franz Willibald Schmidt at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ^ Synopsis of the Central European Flora - Internet Archive 1898.
- ↑ Staff news (PDF) History of botany
- ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Franz Willibald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bohemian botanist and plant painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1764 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plan , bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 2, 1796 |
| Place of death | Prague |