Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer

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Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer (born April 18, 1782 in Hanover , † March 19, 1856 in Göttingen ) was a German botanist and professor of forest science at the University of Göttingen . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " G.Mey. "

Life

Meyer studied from 1802 to 1803 in Göttingen and from 1805 in Dillingen natural sciences and forest science. In 1806 he became a mining and forestry office auditor in Hanover and in 1808 a forest inspector in Paderborn . In 1813 he became a Prussian government councilor and temporarily director of the forests in Paderborn, Corvey and Höxter. In 1814 he continued his studies in Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1818. In 1820 he became physiographer of the Kingdom of Hanover and in 1832 court counselor and full professor of forest sciences in Göttingen. The chair was not filled again after his death.

In 1820 he solved a prize task of the Göttingen Society of Sciences on flood damage to the innermost and measures to prevent it.

In 1836 he wrote a flora of Lower Saxony (Chloris hanoverana).

In 1820 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1843 he became a member of the Society of Sciences in Göttingen .

Honors

The plant genus Meyeria DC. from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) is named after Carl Anton von Meyer , Johann Carl Friedrich Meyer , Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer , Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer and Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer .

Fonts

  • Chloris Hanoverana or overview of the visibly flowering plants and ferns that grow wild in the Kingdom of Hanover, sorted by natural families, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1836 (sub-title: Flora of the Kingdom of Hanover)
  • Contributions to the chorographic knowledge of the river basin of the Innerste in the principalities of Grubenhagen and Hildesheim, Annex to the flora of the Kingdom of Hanover, Göttingen 1822, digitized
  • About the nature of horsetail, flora of the Kingdom of Hanover, Applied part: Investigation of the individual vegetables, Part 1, Göttingen 1837, archive
  • Flora Hanoverana Excursoria containing the description of the phanerogamic plants of Northern Germany in the river areas of the Ems, Weser and Lower Elbe, sorted according to the natural families, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1849, archive
  • Primitiae florae essequeboensis adjectis descriptionibus centum circiter stirpium novarum, observationibusque criticis, Göttingen, Dieterich 1818, archive

literature

  • Klaus-Dirk Henke, article Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer, in: Karl Arndt u. a .: Göttingen scholars, Wallstein 2001
  • Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers: Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen, 2001, Volume 1, p. 319 (with a photo of a painting)

References and comments

  1. ↑ Matriculation May 8, 1802
  2. ^ According to Frahm, Eggers, Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists, he was chief forester in the Harz Mountains
  3. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer
  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 .

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Georg Friedrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES G.Mey. (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1856
Place of death Goettingen