Georg Adolf Suckow

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Georg Adolf Suckow (born January 28, 1751 in Jena , † March 13, 1813 in Heidelberg ) was a German professor of physics , chemistry , mineralogy and mining . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Suckow ". His son was the doctor and naturalist Friedrich Wilhelm Suckow and his brother was the medic Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Suckow . He was a son of the naturalist Lorenz Johann Daniel Suckow .

Life

In 1798 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Suckow was a professor at the High Kameral School in Kaiserslautern and Heidelberg and from 1808 a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

After Suckow's death, the Heidelberg pharmacist and associate teacher at the University of Heidelberg, Johannes Wilhelm Mai , brother of the professor for obstetrics at the University of Heidelberg Franz Anton Mai , asked for an appointment to Suckow's chair, which was rejected by the Senate.

Honors

The plant genus Succowia Medik is named after Suckow . from the cruciferous family (Brassicaceae) with the only species of the Balearic Suckowie ( Succowia balearica ).

Fonts

  • Of the use of chemistry for the sake of civil life, and of economy. In addition to announcement of the reading hours for the summer half year 1775 at the electoral economic school in Lautern, by GA Suckow, the AD professor of theoretical sciences, and permanent secretary of the electoral economic society . Mannheim / Lautern 1775
  • Economic botany . 1777
  • Experiments on the effects of different types of air on vegetation . 1782
  • Diagnosis of the plant genera . Leipzig 1792 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.7731
  • Foundations of the theoretical and applied natural history of animals . in the Weidmannische Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1797–1801 doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.62582

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Georg Adolph Suckow  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Georg Adolf Suckow at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 23, 2016.
  2. ^ Member entry by Georg Adolph Suckow at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on June 21, 2016.
  3. ^ Eberhard Stübler: History of the Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg 1386-1925 , Carl Winters University Bookstore Heidelberg 1926, pp. 180 + 181.
  4. ↑ 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 Suckow, Georg Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Suckow, Georg Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German natural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1813
Place of death Heidelberg