Georg Wilhelm Franz Wenderoth

Georg Wilhelm Franz Wenderoth

Georg Wenderoth (born January 17, 1774 in Marburg ; † June 5, 1861 there ; full name ' Georg Wilhelm Franz Wenderoth ') was a Hessian , German pharmacist and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Wender. "

Life

After an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Marburg, Wenderoth first worked in Schweinfurt for a few years before returning to Marburg in 1796 and studying medicine and natural sciences at Philipps University . In 1801 he finished his studies with a doctorate in medicine. Between 1803 and 1806 he worked as a lecturer at Philipps University. Since he was neither given the chair for botany nor for pharmacy in Marburg after the death of his teacher Conrad Moench , he accepted the appointment at the University of Rinteln. There he took over the subjects of medicine, pharmacy, physics, chemistry and botany as well as the supervision of the local botanical garden. Wenderoth stayed there until the university was dissolved at the end of 1809, and in the same year he received an honorary doctorate from the faculty of philosophy. He was the last to receive this title from the University of Rinteln. At the beginning of 1810 Wenderoth was transferred to the Philipps University in Marburg and took over the chair of botany from Professor Blasius Merrem and thus also the management of the botanical garden. He was commissioned to create a new botanical garden in Marburg. Wenderoth was a professor in Marburg until his death in 1861. He never married and therefore remained childless.

Services

His main achievement consists in the creation of the new botanical garden in Marburg, today's old botanical garden . When he took office in 1810, he took over the former botanical garden on the Ketzerbach at the so-called Weinberg, which was in a desolate state. The university received the 3.6 hectare garden of the Teutonic Order from the King of Westphalia, Jérôme Bonaparte . Since only the gardener Gottfried Wilhelm Schwarzkopf was permanently available as an employee and he also believed that hardly anyone could meet his requirements, he was busy planting the botanical garden for several years.

Honors

In 1821 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

The plant genus Wenderothia Schltdl is named after him . from the legume family (Fabaceae).

Fonts (selection)

• Ge [orgius] Guil [ielmus] Franc [iscus] Wenderoth: Dissertatio inauguralis medica sistens Materiae pharmaceuticae Hassiacae specimen . Marburg 1802. XVI + 70 pp.
• Georg Wilh [elm] Franz Wenderoth: About pharmacists and pharmacists, together with proposals for the most necessary reforms and improvements in pharmaceuticals and related events in the state . Giessen 1805. 233 pp.
• Georg Wilh [elm] Franz Wenderoth: About the study of botany. A few words to his fellow academic citizens in order to correct the lectures on medicinal botany that had been announced in the summer of 1805 . Marburg 1805. 32 pp.
• Georg Wilhelm Franz Wenderoth: Autobiography . in: Friedrich Wilhelm STRIEDER: Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. Vol. XVIII . Marburg 1819. pp. 503-511.
• Georg Wilhelm Franz Wenderoth: Textbook of botany. For lectures and self-study . Marburg 1821. XVI + 590 pp.
• [Georg Wilhelm Franz] Wenderoth: Contributions to the flora of Hessen . in : Writings of the Society for the Promotion of the Entire Natural Sciences in Marburg . Vol. I. Marburg 1823. pp. 118-152.
• [Georg Wilhelm Franz] Wenderoth: Some remarks about various new plant species in the botanical garden in Marburg. Along with an illustration of the Polygala depressa Wender . in: Writings of the Society for the Promotion of the Entire Natural Sciences in Marburg . Vol. 11. Marburg 1831. pp. 211-267.
• G [eorg] W [ilhelm] F [ranz] Wenderoth: The aconite and the aconite drugs. Remarks on important, indigenous medicinal plants, together with suggestions regarding the same, were first given to the pharmacists of the Electorate of Hessen; Doctors and medicinal authorities for consideration . Kassel 1837. 23 pp.
• Georg Wilhelm Franz Wenderoth: Attempt to characterize the vegetation of Kurhessen. As an introduction to the flora of this country. In addition to two test sheets: one from Flora hassiaca and one from Flora marburgensis . Kassel 1839. XII + 155 S. (= publications of the Society for Transport, the entire natural sciences to Marburg. Vol. IV).
• Georg Wilhelm Franz Wenderoth: Flora Hassiaca or systematic directory of all plants observed up to now in Kurhessen and (with regard to the rarer ones) in the next adjacent areas of the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt etc., containing the open flowering plants . Kassel 1846. XXVIII + 402 pp.
• G [eorg] W [ilhelm] F [ranz] Wenderoth: The plant garden of the University of Marburg. The story of the same is told . Marburg 1850. 75 pp.
• G [eorg] W [ilhelm] F [ranz] Wenderoth: The plants of botanical gardens, initially those of the plant garden of the University of Marburg, listed systematically and synoptically under their catalog numbers , for use when visiting such gardens for students and friends of the plant world. 1st booklet: Containing the natural order of the conifers . Kassel 1851. XVIII + 64 S. (digitized from GoogleBooks)
• G [eorg] W [ilhelm] F [ranz] Wenderoth: Analyzes of critical remarks, further explanations and additions to and about some plants of the German and other flora, some hitherto little known, some not at all. 1st issue. A contribution to the writings of the Society for the Promotion of the Entire Natural Sciences in Marburg and the new plants already described by the author . Kassel 1852. 18 pp.

literature

• Ernst Wunschmann:  Wenderoth, Georg Wilhelm Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 716 f.
• Ingeburg maintenance pupil: Georg Wilhelm Franz Wenderoth (1774–1861). A contribution to the history of botany at the University of Marburg. Hessian Historical Commission et al., Darmstadt et al. 1989, ISBN 3-88443-164-1 ( Sources and research on Hessian history 75), (At the same time: Marburg (Lahn), Univ., Diss., 1988/89).

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Georg Wilhelm Franz Wenderoth at the IPNI

swell

1. ↑ Wenderoth 1850, p. 27 in Unterhalt-Schüler 1989
2. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Georg Wilhelm Franz Wenderoth
3. ↑ 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 .