Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt

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Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt (born February 13, 1825 in Hamburg ; † March 3, 1897 ibid) was a German teacher and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Klatt ".

Live and act

Klatt was a teacher in Hamburg and studied botany as an amateur. He collected in the area around Hamburg and on the North Sea coast and came into contact with Johann Georg Christian Lehmann from the Botanical Garden , who became his mentor.

He dealt mainly with sunflower plants (Compositae), iris family (Iridaceae) and sticky seed family (Pittosporaceae). He also worked on collections from exotic countries, for example from Africa by the explorer Karl Klaus von der Betten (East Africa) and Conspectus Florae Africae by Théophile Alexis Durand and Hans Schinz (1898) or from Brazil ( Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1840 –1868), Flora of Central Brazil by Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming (1841–1924)). He made several trips to the Kew Gardens Botanical Gardens and traded with Asa Gray .

Honors

The genus of the iris family Klattia was named in his honor by John Gilbert Baker in 1877 .

On February 3, 1881 he became a member of the Leopoldina . He was an honorary doctor from the University of Rostock . His herbarium came to Harvard (Gray Herbarium) and to the University of Hamburg (Botanical Institute).

literature

  • A. Voigt: Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt . In: Yearbook of the Hamburg Scientific Institutions, Volume 16, 1899, pp. 99-106.
  • H. Schinz: Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt . In: Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier Volume 5, 1897, pp. 836-839 ( digitized version ).
  • WJ Goverts: Obituary for Dr. Klatt . In: Leopoldina Volume 35, 1899, pp. 142–145.
  • Otto Solbrig: The Klatt Herbarium of Compositae at Harvard . In: Taxon Volume 14, 1965, pp. 188-191 ( JSTOR ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Klatt, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1897
Place of death Hamburg