Friedrich Bernhard Wartmann

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Friedrich Bernhard Wartmann (born December 8, 1830 in St. Gallen ; † June 3, 1902 there ) was a Swiss botanist and plant collector . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Wartm. "

biography

Memorial to Friedrich Bernhard Wartmann (1830–1902) botanist and plant collector. Designed by Henri Gisbert Geene (1865–1950), sculptor
Memorial to Friedrich Bernhard Wartmann at the inauguration in 1908
The Wartmann memorial 110 years later (2018)

Friedrich Bernhard Wartmann's ancestors came from Wittenbach and Lömmenschwil . Wartmann was the grandson of a bookbinder (1803–1873) and the son of Jacob and Anna Helena Weibrata, née Wild. He was taught at the St. Gallen City School by Pastor Kunkler and others at the grammar school by the scholar Peter Scheitlin (1779–1848).

From 1849 to 1852 Wartmann studied at the University of Zurich . He then worked as an assistant to Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1855 he received his Ph. D. and lectured as a professor of natural history at the grammar school in St. Gallen. In 1863 he became rector of the canton school in St. Gallen, president of the St. Gallen Natural Science Society and, as his father's successor, from 1873 to 1902 director of the Natural Science Museum in St. Gallen .

In 1878 he founded St. Gallen's first botanical garden in the city park next to the museum he directed. Between 1862 and 1882 he published together with Bernhard Schenk (1833-1893) and Heinrich Georg Winter (1848-1887) the work Swiss cryptogams , a herbarium in 18 editions.

Wartmann's extensive collection is now in the St. Gallen Nature Museum . On May 24, 1908, the monument to Wartmann created by Henri Gisbert Geene (1865–1950) was inaugurated in the St. Gallen city park .

Wartmann described, among other things, the Bodensee forget-me-not .

Dedication names

According to Wartmann, the plant genus Wartmannia is Müll.Arg. named from the family of milkweed plants (Euphorbiaceae).

Works (selection)

  • Contributions to the St. Gallen folk botany. 1861
  • Swiss cryptogams. 1865.

literature

  • Emil Bächler : Bernhard Wartmann, museum director. A picture of life and character. In: Yearbook of the St. Gall Science Society . Vol. 43, 1901, pp. 1-109 ( digitized version ).
  • Directory of all publications by Bernhard Wartmann. In: Yearbook of the St. Gall Science Society. Vol. 43, 1901, pp. 109-121 ( digitized version ).
  • Natural Research Society in Zurich (Ed.): Quarterly publication of the Natural Research Society in Zurich. Orell Füssli Graphic Works, Zurich 1901.
  • Bürgerrat St. Gallen (Ed.): Bürgerbuch 1990. Zollikofer, St. Gallen 1990, p. 1136.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Wartmann Memorial , 1908
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names. Volume 2. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7 , p. 2077.

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personal data
SURNAME Wartmann, Friedrich Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss botanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1902
Place of death St. Gallen