Georg Friedrich Koch (botanist)

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Georg Friedrich Koch (born November 5, 1808 in Ungstein , † November 4, 1874 in Waldmohr ) was a botanist , physician and scientist from the Palatinate . Its botanical author abbreviation is " G.Koch ".

Life

Georg Friedrich Koch was born the son of a landowner and mayor and received his first lessons from the Ungsteiner pastor and later professor in Erlangen Isaak Rust (1796–1862). After attending the Latin school in Dürkheim and the grammar school in Speyer, he studied theology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Georg Friedrich Koch became a member of a fraternity in Munich and moved to the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen after four semesters . There he became a member of the Germania Erlangen fraternity in 1829 , of which he was a member. By Bernhard Lizius he was to participate in the Frankfurter Wachensturm invited but did not participate in it. In Erlangen, after the failure of the guard tower, Koch was arrested on suspicion of demagogic activities and held in custody for three and a half years. After a subsequent conviction to a prison term of several years, he was pardoned after two years and then studied medicine and botany with Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . After his doctorate as Dr. med. Georg Friedrich Koch worked from 1845 as a general practitioner in Dürkheim, Wachenheim, Sembach and finally in Waldmohr.

He was an early supporter of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and became known as a botanist primarily for his list of lichens found in the Palatinate, published in 1856 . In addition, he has ample evidence in the Herbarium of Pollichia introduced.

Georg Friedrich Koch, who was one of the founding members of Pollichia, was registered on May 1, 1854 under matriculation no. 1707 accepted into the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina with the academic nickname Pollich II . His nickname was a reminiscence of the Palatine doctor and botanist Johann Adam Pollich , after whom the Pollichia natural research association was named in 1840.

Fonts

  • Comments on plants from the flora of the Palatinate . In: Annual report of Pollichia, a natural science association of the Bavarian Palatinate, 7, Speyer 1849, p. 10–28 ( digitized version )
  • History of the internal and external development of Pollichia in the first decade of its existence. Presented to the General Assembly on October 6, 1850 . Baur, Landau 1850 ( digitized version )
  • List of lichens found in the Palatinate . In: Annual report of Pollichia, a natural science association of the Rhine Palatinate, 14, Neustadt 1856, pp. 16-20 ( digitized version )
  • Additions to the flora of the Palatinate . In: Annual report of Pollichia, a natural science association of the Rhine Palatinate, 22–24, Dürkheim 1866, pp. 106–110 ( digitized version )
  • Newton and the law of gravity . Addendum to the 28th and 29th annual report of Pollichia, Dürkheim 1872 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Delffs : Georg Friedrich Koch † . In: Annual reports of Pollichia, 34/35, Dürkheim 1877, pp. IX – X ( digitized version )
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, directory of the members of the academy, according to the chronological order, p. 280 ( archive.org ).
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , p. 120.

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personal data
SURNAME Koch, Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palatine botanist, physician and natural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Ungstein
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1874
Place of death Forest black