Georg Ernst Wilhelm Crome
Georg Ernst Wilhelm Crome (born March 28, 1781 in Einbeck ; † May 2, 1813 in Möglin , Mark Brandenburg ) was a German agricultural scientist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Crome ".
Live and act
Crome grew up in Lüneburg , where he learned the profession of pharmacist. His cousin, the later Africa explorer Friedrich Konrad Hornemann, also lived in his father's house from 1788 . Crome enrolled in 1806 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen for pharmacy and medicine. In 1808 he went as a teacher of natural sciences to the agricultural teaching institute Albrecht Daniel Thaers in Möglin ( Agricultural Academy Möglin ). Here he had the title of "Royal Prussian Professor". On May 14, 1809 he married Caroline Thaer (1788-1845), the daughter of Thaers; the only son Karl from this marriage died early. Crome died of typhoid at the age of 32 .
Despite this short life span, Crome was an extremely productive scientist. Before his studies in Göttingen, he was mainly concerned with the botanical systematics of mosses. In Möglin, soil and plant analyzes were in the foreground. He published many of his research results in Thaer's journal Annals of the Progress of Agriculture in Theory and Practice . Of his books, a multi-volume manual of natural history for farmers and also a volume of poetry should be emphasized.
Crome's most important scientific achievement is the book "The soil and its relationship to the plants" published in 1812. Based on careful observations in the field and taking into account basic growth factors such as B. temperature, light and soil condition, Crome was the first to describe the pointer value of wild plant species as an aid for site assessment. The ecological value of pointer plants for agriculture and landscape maintenance was only "rediscovered" and systematically researched by science in the second half of the 20th century, especially by the geobotanist Heinz Ellenberg .
Fonts (selection)
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Collection of German mosses . Schwerin 1803; 1st subsequent delivery ibid. 1805, 2nd subsequent delivery ibid. 1806.
- Johann Jacob Hartenkeil: Medicinisch-chirurgische Zeitung , issue 2, April 18, 1808, p. 76ff. Digitized , (contains the note that this article can also be found in Hoppe's [Botanical] paperback.)
- Mixed remarks on the moss , by Mr. Crome. In: David Heinrich Hoppe : Botanical pocket book for beginners of this science and apothecary art to the year 1804, Regensburg, pp. 26–38.
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Handbook of natural history for farmers . Part 1 Hanover 1810; Part 2 ibid. 1811; Part 3 (in three volumes) - published posthumously, ibid. 1816 a. 1817.
- Review: botany . In: Neue Leipziger Literaturzeitung , 34th issue, March 20, 1811, column 536 digitized
- Poems . Hanover 1811.
- The soil and its relation to the plants; or: instruction to get to know the soil, especially in view of the wild plants growing on it, and to judge its value; together with a description of the marl species, moder species and peat deposits. Hahn brothers, Hanover 1812.
literature
- H. Brockmüller: The mosses of Mecklenburg . § 1 History. In: CM Wiechmann (Ed.): Archive of the Association of Friends of Natural History in Mecklenburg , Volume 23, Opitz & Co, Güstrow 1870, pp. 7–8, digitized , (curriculum vitae)
- William Löbe: Crome, Georg Ernst Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 607 f.
- Günther Natho: About Georg Ernst Wilhelm Crome 1781 to 1813 . In: Scientific journal of the Humboldt University of Berlin , Mathematical-Natural Science Series, vol. 27, 1978, pp. 81–84 (with bibliography).
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Georg Ernst Wilhelm Crome at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crome, Georg Ernst Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German agricultural scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 28, 1781 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Einbeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1813 |
| Place of death | Möglin , Province of Brandenburg |