Georg Gustav Detharding

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Georg Gustav Detharding

Georg Gustav Detharding (born June 22, 1765 in Rostock ; † February 3, 1839 ibid) was a German doctor ( gynecologist ), botanist and malacologist who was a resident doctor in Rostock. Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Dethard. "

His father Georg Christoph Detharding was also a doctor in Rostock. He attended the city school in Rostock and studied medicine in Jena with his doctorate in 1787 (with a dissertation on childbirth). He then visited well-known medical institutions in Germany before settling down as a doctor in Rostock, specializing in obstetrics (gynecology). From 1789/90 he also gave medicine lectures there, but soon gave up.

In addition to his work as a doctor, he mainly conducted research in botany. Thanks to good contacts with domestic and foreign scholars, he set up a herbarium vivum and had a collection of minerals and conchylia. He also owned a valuable natural history library. He published a list of molluscs from Mecklenburg (1794) and the seed plants of Mecklenburg (1828).

In 1800 he became a member of the Leopoldina . He was also a member of the natural history societies in Jena, Kassel, Drei 30acker (Forest Academy) and Rostock, of which he was a founding member in 1800.

He was married to Marie Elizabeth Sophie Tarnow (1774-1859) and had eight children, including their son Georg Wilhelm , who was a military doctor in Rostock.

Fonts

  • Systematic directory of the Mecklenburg conchylia, Schwerin 1794 (editor and foreword Adolph Christian Siemssen)
  • Conspectus plantarum magniducatuum Megalopolitanorum phanerogamarum, Rostock 1828

He also published on gynecology and obstetrics.

literature

  • Brüssow, New Nekrolog der Deutschen, 17th year 1839, part 2, Weimar 1841, pp. 1030f
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2053 .
  • Sabine Pettke (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for Mecklenburg. Volume 1, Schmidt-Römhild, Rostock 1995, ISBN 3-7950-3702-6 , p. 69

References and comments

  1. ↑ Dates of life according to Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen 1841. Sometimes 1838 is also given as the date of death.
  2. ^ Author entry and list of the described plant names for Georg Gustav Detharding at the IPNI
  3. ↑ A description of his herbarium of plants from Mecklenburg in the Schweriner Freimüthigen Abendblatt 1819
  4. ^ Member entry by Georg Gustav Detharding at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 22, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Detharding, Georg Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician (gynecologist), botanist and malacologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1839
Place of death Rostock