Frederick Brendel

Frederick Brendel (born January 20, 1820 in Erlangen , † August 10, 1912 in Peoria , Illinois ) was an American botanist and meteorologist of German origin.

Life

Born as the son of a wagon master, councilor and mayor, Brendel studied medicine at the University of Erlangen after graduating from high school . During his studies in 1839 he became a member of the Bubenruthia Erlangen fraternity , of which he was spokesman in 1841. In 1843 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . In the immediate aftermath he held an assistant doctor position at the municipal hospital in Bamberg until 1846 . He took part in the revolution in 1848 , so he published a republican pamphlet, which resulted in his expulsion. In 1850 Brendel emigrated to the USA, where he initially worked for Georg Engelmann in Missouri for a while before he settled as a doctor in Peoria.

There Brendel carried out botanical research on the one hand, and on the other hand began in December 1855 with weather records. He carried out temperature and precipitation measurements almost continuously until 1905. Brendel's records serve as the framework for the Peoria climatological database.

Fonts

• Historical researches upon the cultivated grain fruits in the state of Illinois, Lanphier & Walker, printers, 1857
• Birds of the Neighborhood of Peoria, Illinois, In: Volume 9 of Journal for the Entire Natural Sciences Hall, 1857
• Forests and forest trees, Bailhache & Baker, 1859
• On meteorology in connection with botanical investigations, 1859
• The oaks of Illinois, Bailhache & Baker, 1859
• The trees and shrubs in Illinois, In: Volume 3 of Transactions of the Illinois State Agricultural Society, 1859
• The water lily: on the peculiar growth of the water lily (Nelumbium luteum), Willd, Bailhache & Baker, printers, 1861
• Historical sketch of the science of botany in North America from 1635 to 1858, 1879
• Immigration of animals and plants, 1887
• Flora peoriana; the Vegetation in the Climate of Middle Illinois, New Edition , BiblioBazaar, 2010, ISBN 1149355743

literature

• Virginius H. Chase: Frederick Brendel: The Pioneer Botanist of Peoria, reprint, Phillips Bros., print, 1932
• Brendel, Frederick (1820–1912) In: Jan-Peter Frahm; Jens Eggert: Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen, Volume 2, Page 51 , Norderstedt: Books on Demand 2001, ISBN 9783831109869
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 150-151.

Individual evidence

1. ^ In Dvorak (page 150) named as Friedrich Johann Gottlieb Brendel.
2. ↑ Frederick Brendel began recording the weather in Peoria in 1855 on the History of Federal Weather Services in Central Illinois website, the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office, Central Illinois