Friedrich Adam Julius von Wangenheim
Friedrich Adam Julius von Wangenheim (born February 8, 1749 in Sonneborn , † March 25, 1800 in Gumbinnen ) was a German dendrologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Wangenh. "
origin
His parents were the Saxon-Gotha chamberlain Julius Adam von Wangenheim (* April 5, 1721 - July 21, 1763) and his wife Sophie Christiane Wilhelmine von Steinsdorf (1733-1802). His father was a buyer of the Upper Winterstein Castle.
Life
He first received military training in the Gotha service, but then took his leave as a lieutenant in order to be trained as a forester. When the Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel set up an auxiliary corps for the English during the American War of Independence , Wangenheim joined this and went to North America in 1777. He became Premier-Lieutenant with a patent on December 14, 1776 and joined the Hessian Jäger Corps under Major Karl von Prüschenck . The troops embarked for America in 1777 and on December 13, 1777 Wangenheim became staff captain . He took part in the battles at Brandywic and Charleston .
In the eight years of his stay in America he carried out extensive forest science studies; as early as 1780 he sent his first book to Europe. He returned with the Jägerkorps and was able to move back into Kassel on May 17, 1784. After he had hoped in vain for a job in the forestry service, he took his leave on November 8, 1786.
Wangenheim dedicated his second book, published in 1787, to King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia. Thereupon he was appointed head forest master of the Lithuanian War and Domain Chamber in 1788 . After a serious illness in the winter of 1799, he died and was buried in the garden of his Lasdinehlen estate (Gumbinnen district) .
Honors
- Pour la vertu militaire , Military Merit Order (Hesse)
- Honorary member of the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin
- The plant genus Wangenheimia F.Dietr. from the Aralia family was named after him.
family
In 1786 he married Wilhelmine Henriette Charlotte Sophie von Bornstedt (1768–1840) a niece of Friedrich August Ludwig von Burgsdorff . The couple had several children:
- Julius Wilhelm Moritz (born June 19, 1788; † September 12, 1859), Lord Chamberlain and Oberlandjägermeister ⚭ Amalie von Münchingen (born February 21, 1797; † January 19, 1878)
- Alexander Friedrich Karl Ludwig (1792–1867), Prussian Lieutenant General ⚭ Ernestine Henriette von dem Borne (* May 2, 1797; † February 22, 1854)
- Caesar († March 5, 1852), Prussian Appellate Council ⚭ 1845 Mathilde von Wangenheim
The widow married her brother-in-law Adam Christian Ernst Treusch von Buttlar († 1806).
Fonts
- Description of some North American wood and bush species, with application to German forests. , Dieterich, Göttingen 1781, digitized
- Supplement to Forests Culture Science, Applied to Transplanting Tree Species Growing in North America, 1787
- Contribution to German forest science appropriate to wood with application to German forests. , Dieterich, Göttingen 1787, digitized
- Description of the different types of wood that grow in North America , 1788
- Reflections on the firs from Prussian-Litthauen , 1789
- Considerations on the softwoods that grow in North America , 1795
literature
- John Booth : Friedrich Adam Julius v. Wangenheim and the Naturalization (1749–1799) , in: The introduction of foreign wood species into the Prussian state forests under Bismarck and others, Springer, Berlin 1903, pp. 23–34, digitized
- Richard Hess : Wangenheim, Friedrich Adam Julius von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 148 f.
- Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg : Forest Science Writer's Lexicon, Berlin 1872–73, p. 157 footnote, digitized
- Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 , Volume 14, Gerhard Fleischer, Leipzig, 1815, p. 408
- Historical-genealogical atlas since the birth of Christ, p.70
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
Web links
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Friedrich Adam Julius von Wangenheim at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wangenheim, Friedrich Adam Julius from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dendrologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1749 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sonneborn |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 1800 |
| Place of death | Gumbinnen |