Friedrich Siegmund Voigt

Grave of Friedrich Siegmund Voigt in the Johannisfriedhof in Jena

Friedrich Siegmund Voigt (born October 1, 1781 in Gotha , † December 10, 1850 in Jena ) was a German botanist and zoologist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " F.Voigt ".

Live and act

Voigt was the son of the mathematics and physics professor in Jena Johann Heinrich Voigt . He was married to Susette von Loevenich, daughter of Friedrich von Loevenich from the famous Krefeld silk dynasty and Charlotte Susanne Hestermann from the Frankfurt banking dynasty Hestermann. He became professor of medicine and botany at the University of Jena and director of the local botanical garden . He was also a privy councilor.

On the mediation of Goethe Voigt traveled to Paris in September 1809. There he met Alexander von Humboldt , who made him acquaintance with numerous scholars, among others. a. Cuvier made it possible.

He defended the doctrine of the metamorphosis of plants by Johann Wolfgang Goethe . On Goethe's recommendation, he also became director of the Botanical Garden in Jena (which was not subordinate to the university) and rebuilt it after the severe devastation caused by the Napoleonic Wars.

As a zoologist, he published the German edition of the animal kingdom by Georges Cuvier and wrote his own zoology textbook.

Honors

He was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and was elected a member of the Leopoldina in 1821 .

After him, the plant genus Voigtia is Spreng. named from the sunflower family (Asteraceae).

Fonts

Wikisource: Friedrich Siegmund Voigt - Sources and full texts

In 1812 his catalog of the plants in the Jena Botanical Garden was published.

literature

Ernst Wunschmann: Voigt, Friedrich Siegmund . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 204.
Ilse Jahn : Friedrich Siegmund Voigt's study trip to Paris 1809/10 as reflected in the Goethe files . In: Leopoldina . Communications from the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. R. 3. 28. 1982 (1985), pp. 215-233.

Individual evidence

↑ Friedrich Sigismund Voigt's membership entry at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on October 19, 2015.
↑ 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	Voigt, Friedrich Siegmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 1, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gotha
DATE OF DEATH	December 10, 1850
Place of death	Jena

[1] Friedrich Sigismund Voigt's membership entry at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on October 19, 2015.

[Burkhardt_2018-2] 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 .