Gottfried Albrecht Germann

Gottfried Albrecht Germann (* December 8th ^July / December 19, 1773 ^greg. In Riga ; † November 16 ^July / November 28, 1809 ^greg. In Dorpat ) was a Baltic German botanist .

Life

Gottfried Albrecht Germann studied medicine and natural science at the University of Jena from 1792 . Here he founded the Jena Natural Research Society with August Batsch in 1793 . From 1796 he studied botany at the University of Kiel .

He then practiced as a doctor.

From 1802 he was professor of natural history at the University of Dorpat (now Tartu). Germann founded the botanical garden in Dorpat in 1803. In 1811 Carl Friedrich Ledebour was his successor.

Honors

On August 8, 1806, Gottfried Albert Germann, nicknamed Xenophanes II, was elected a member ( matriculation no. 1036 ) of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Writings and works

Journey through Estonia, especially of botanical content, undertaken in the summer of 1803 by Professor Germann in Dorpat. In: Hoppe, DH (Red.), New botanical pocket book for the beginners of this science and the apothecary art for the year 1805. JE Monath and JF Russer, Nürnberg and Adorf, pp. 57–105.
Description of a new species of the genus Valeriana pubescens Herm. Rain. Bot. Zeit., 23 (1805), pp. 359-361.
Directory of plants in the botanical garden of the imperial university in Dorpat, in 1807. MG Grenzius, Dorpat.

literature

Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 243 digitized

Web links

Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Gottfried Albrecht Germann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Meyers Konversationslexikon, fourth edition, 1885–1892, keyword "Germann"
Biography , Institute of Botany and Ecology , University of Tartu (Estonian)

Individual evidence

^ Member entry by Gottfried Albert Germann at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 23, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Germann, Gottfried Albrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Xenophanes II (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 19, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH	Riga
DATE OF DEATH	November 28, 1809
Place of death	Dorpat

[1] Member entry by Gottfried Albert Germann at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 23, 2015.