Gottfried von Segnitz
Gottfried von Segnitz (born June 13, 1827 in Schweinfurt , † November 1, 1905 in Rappershausen ) was a German botanist and landowner.
Life
Gottfried von Segnitz, descendant of a Schweinfurt family of lawyers, first studied camera sciences and later natural sciences at the universities of Würzburg, Erlangen and Jena. He worked as a farmer on Gut Maria Burghausen and later managed the Kaltenhof for the Schweinfurt industrialist Wilhelm Sattler . In 1859 he bought the meadow mill in Niederwerrn . On January 23, 1862 he married Julie Amalie Emmert, daughter of the pastor Friedrich Emmert , with whom he published the Flora von Schweinfurt in 1852 .
On January 1, 1852, he was accepted as a member of the Leopoldina and received the academic surname Wohlfarth. In 1862 he was a founding member of the natural science association Schweinfurt.
Fonts
- with Friedrich Emmert : Flora von Schweinfurt: a systematic listing of the phanerogams and higher cryptogams growing and cultivated in the wild in the area around Schweinfurt with details of the locations and flowering times and a brief preliminary remark about the physical-geographical conditions; a contribution to the jubilee of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian Academy of Natural Scientists , founded 200 years ago in Schweinfurt , Giegler, Schweinfurt 1852 digitized
literature
- Stephan Ankenbrand and Karl Stolz: Heimatbuch Oberwerrn, part 1. Verlag JH Röll, Dettelbach 2006, 243–244 digitized
- 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. 277 .
Web links
- Member entry of Gottfried von Segnitz at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 7, 2017.
- Entry about Segnitz, Gottfried von in the index of the German biography
- Works by and about Gottfried von Segnitz in the German Digital Library
- Leopoldina members in Schweinfurt
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 8, Leipzig 1868, p. 440.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Segnitz, Gottfried von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schweinfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1905 |
| Place of death | Rappershausen |