Friedrich Bödeker

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Friedrich Bödeker at the YHV of the German Cactus Society in August 1933 in Frankfurt (Main)

Friedrich Bödeker (born September 11, 1867 in Währentrup ( Lippe ), † April 9, 1937 in Cologne ) was a German craftsman and cactus researcher . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Boed. ".

Life

Friedrich Bödeker came from a family of millers who had lived at the foot of the Teutoburg Forest for centuries. The house where he was born was an old mill in Wärentrup in Lippe. He was actually a painter by profession and had wandered a good chunk of the continent as a skilled craftsman. He then settled in Cologne in 1893 and married his wife in 1896, about whom little is known. From this marriage a son was born.

Bödeker's great passion was researching cacti. In this area he had a lifelong friendship with Wilhelm Weingart . Bödeker first appeared as an author in 1906 in the monthly magazine for cactus science . In many other articles he described new discoveries and worked as an author of plant names. The majority of these initial descriptions appeared in the monthly magazine for cacti of the German Kakteen-Gesellschaft , of which he was a member since 1904, in the 1920s and 1930s. He was particularly fond of the genus Mammillaria (Cactaceae). The "Mammillaria comparison key" published by him in 1933 is still one of the standard works in the taxonomy of mammillaries today .

The species Turbinicarpus boedekerianus was named after him in 2019 .

Fonts (selection)

  • A mammillar comparison key. Neumann, Neudamm 1933.

literature

  • Curt Backeberg : Die Cactaceae - Handbuch der Kakteenkunde, Vol. 1-6. Gustav-Fischer, Jena 1958–1962.
  • Curt Backeberg : The cactus dictionary - Enumeratio diagnostica Cactacearum. Gustav-Fischer, Jena 1966.
  • J. Pilbeam: Mammillaria - A Collector's Guide. London 1982.
  • W. Reppenhagen: The genus Mammillaria as far as I know today. Titisee-Neustadt 1987.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ During this period, the monthly underwent numerous title changes: Zeitschrift für Sukkulentenkunde , monthly of the German Kakteen-Gesellschaft , Kakteenkunde
  2. ↑ Directory of members of the German Cactus Society . In: Monthly for cactus science . Vol. 14, 1904, p. 15 (online) .
  3. ↑ Leccinum Jesús García-Morales, Miguel Ángel González-Botello, Grzegorz Matuszewski, Stefan Nitzschke, Duilio Iamonico: Turbinicarpus boedekerianus sp. nov. (Cactaceae), a new species from Nuevo León, Mexico . In: Phytotaxa Volume 391, Number 2, 2019, pp. 159-162 ( doi: 10.11646 / phytotaxa.391.2.12 ).

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personal data
SURNAME Bödeker, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boedeker, Ms.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Currency squad
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1937
Place of death Cologne