Georg Heinrich Weber

Georg Heinrich Weber

Georg Heinrich Weber , also George , or Georgius Henricus Weber , (born July 27, 1752 in Göttingen , † July 25, 1828 in Kiel ) was a German doctor and botanist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Weber ".

Life

As the son of the philosopher Andreas Weber studied Weber medicine at the Georg-August University of Göttingen , where he in 1774 to Dr. med. PhD . In 1777 he became a prosector and associate professor of medicine in Kiel . In 1780 he was appointed full professor of medicine and botany.

Up until then, medical training in the Duchy of Holstein was deplorable. In 1788 Weber set up a polyclinic in what was then the suburb of Kiel on the Prüne . The patients were treated in his home or in their own apartments under his guidance from students. In the same year Weber was able to acquire a farm near Kiel with the help of foundations, on which he built a hospital. In 1791 it was completed to such an extent that “30 sick people can be accommodated extremely comfortably and well and, if necessary, twice as many”.

Weber also laid out Kiel's third botanical garden, both for teaching and for the recovery of the sick. Here both his son Friedrich Weber (1781–1823) and Daniel Matthias Heinrich Mohr got to know the basics of botany. In 1799 he became the Duke's personal physician .

When his private clinic was taken over by the Kiel Senate and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel in 1802 , he was appointed director. The clinic existed as an academic sanatorium until 1873.

In 1806 he received the title of Budget Councilor . In 1810 he was appointed director of the Schleswig-Holstein sanitary college and supervisor of the combined hospitals and the botanical garden. In 1813/1814 he was rector of the CAU, Weber was one of the first to recognize lichens as a special way of life.

His son Georg was a general practitioner in Kiel.

Honors

Weberstrasse in Kiel parade ground is named after him. The moss genus Webera Ehrh. is named after him.

See also : Old Botanical Garden (Kiel)

Fonts

• Ask the public for support on the hospital to be built in Kiel. 1788.
• Commentatio botanico-medica, sistens vires plantarum cryptogamicarum medicas. 1778. Investigates the medicinal use of mosses and ferns.
• Spicilegium florae Göttingensis plantas imprimis cryptogamicas Hercyniae illustrans. ( Google books )
• Flora of Göttingen. 1778. An early survey of the plant population.
• Some experiences on the treatment of the current dysentery epidemic.
• About the Schleswig seagulls and Holstein swimming birds. 1798.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Weber in Kiel
2. ^ Newspaper for the employees and friends of the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein. 6th year, August 2008, No. 4 (PDF uk-sh.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) .  
3. ^ Ernst Wunschmann:  Weber, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 294 f.
4. ^ Ernst Wunschmann:  Mohr, Daniel Matthias Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 65 f.
5. ^ Weber and Mohr
6. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
7. ↑ Hans-G. Hilscher, Dietrich Bleihöfer: Weberstrasse. In: Kiel Street Lexicon. Continued since 2005 by the Office for Building Regulations, Surveying and Geoinformation of the State Capital Kiel, as of February 2017 ( kiel.de ).
8. ↑ 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 .

literature

• Julius Pagel :  Weber, Georg Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 302 f.

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Georg Heinrich Weber at the IPNI