Georg von Martens

This article deals with the naturalist Georg von Martens. On the diplomat and publicist see Georg Friedrich von Martens .

Georg Matthias von Martens, around 1850, portrait of his daughter Luise von Martens

Georg Matthias von Martens (born June 12, 1788 in Mira near Venice ; † February 24, 1872 in Stuttgart ) was a lawyer, traveler and naturalist. Its botanical abbreviation is G. Martens .

Life

Journey to Venice , 1824

His father Wilhelm Conrad von Martens (1748–1828) was a merchant and Danish consul in Venice. His mother Margarete Louise (1765-1832) was the daughter of Colonel Matthias von Scheler. He was born on an estate (Miravecchia near Dolo ) near Venice. His siblings were the general and war writer Karl von Martens (1790–1861), the later Colonel Christian von Martens (1793–1882) and the painter and sculptor Friedrich von Martens (1807–1885).

From 1807 he studied law at the University of Tübingen . He also attended lectures by the naturalists Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer , Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger and the historian Christian Friedrich Rösler . After he had passed the state examination in 1811, he became secretary at the Higher Justice College in Stuttgart. In the meantime he worked in Ulm from 1818 to 1821. In 1823 he was given the post of librarian at the Upper Tribunal in Stuttgart and in 1829 that of the official interpreter for Italian, Spanish and Portuguese at the Ministry of Justice and the Interior. In 1836 he became a chancellery and retired in 1855. In 1832 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

His children were the painter Luise von Martens (1828–1894) and the zoologist and explorer Eduard von Martens (1831–1904).

Act

Georg von Martens was interested in the natural history of his native land and he went on extensive trips. During his time in Ulm, he traveled to Austria and Northern Italy and collected natural produce for the Stuttgart Natural History Cabinet , mainly fish from Venice. He founded the Moosherbar in Stuttgart, the oldest evidence of which dates from 1792. In 1824 he published his two-volume trip to Venice . In Vicenza he had seen one of Garnier's elephants , and in it he reported about its death in Venice in 1819. Between 1844 and 1846 the three-volume work Italy was published , in which he also dealt extensively with algae. In 1834 he brought out the flora of Würtemberg with the botanist Gustav Schübler from Tübingen . It was expanded in the second edition together with Carl Albert Kemmler to the Flora von Württemberg and Hohenzollern , 1865. The third edition appeared in 1882. In 1863 the natural science faculty in Tübingen awarded him the Dr. H. c.

After the expedition of SMS Thetis (1855) he brought The Prussian Expedition to East Asia. According to official sources. The Tange . Out in 1866 .

Honors

The algae genera Martensia Hering and Neomartensia T.Yoshidea & Mikami are named after him .

Works

• Italy
  • 1st vol., Italian country . Scheidle, Rieger & Sattler, Stuttgart 1844
  • 2nd vol., Italian life . Scheidle, Rieger & Sattler, Stuttgart 1844
  • 3rd Vol., The States . Scheidle, Rieger & Sattler, Stuttgart 1845
• Trip to Venice
  • 1. Th. From Stuttgart via Ulm, Vienna and Trieste to Venice . Stettin, Ulm 1824
  • 2. Th. Venice. Eugans. Belluno Alps. Tyrol. Baier. Natural history appendix . Stettin, Ulm 1824

Secondary literature

• Eduard von Martens : Life picture of the chancellery Dr. Georg v. Martens , based on his notes and oral communications, designed by. In: Annual books of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg , 29th year, E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1873, p. 66f.

literature

• Georg von Martens: The Prussian expedition to East Asia. According to official sources. Botanical part. The Tange. Decker, Berlin 1873 ( digitized version and full text in the German text archive )
• Ernst Wunschmann:  Martens, Georg von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, pp. 467-471.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Botanik Collection - State Museum for Natural History Stuttgart. In: naturkundemuseum-bw.de. Accessed May 31, 2020 . 
2. ^ Georg von Martens: Journey to Venice . Ulm 1824; Second part pp. 319–322 limited preview in Google Book search
3. ↑ Georg Matthias von Martens: Die Tange ... Königliche Geheime Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei, 1866 limited preview in the Google book search
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 .