Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff
Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff (born May 21, 1797 in Dürkheim ad Haardt , † September 11, 1854 in Heidelberg ) was a German botanist and university professor. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Bisch. "
Live and act
In Kaiserslautern , Bischoff devoted himself to the study of botany under the direction of Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch , the author of the classic " Flora Germany " . He attended the 1819 Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and studied since 1821 in Erlangen Botany, where he joined the Corps Rhenania I joined. In 1824 he went to Heidelberg as a teacher and completed his habilitation there in 1825. In 1833 he became professor of botany and in 1839 director of the Heidelberg Botanical Garden . George Engelmann was one of his students . Bischoff devoted himself to the systematics and reproduction of cryptogamous plants and delivered valuable work on liverworts , characeae and vascular cryptogams. Among other things, he created the terms antheridium and archegonium and distinguished between deciduous and liverworts. Like Goethe in his morphological studies, he derived all plant organs from the leaf .
Honors
- Elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1826)
Fonts
- The botanical art language in outline . 1822.
- Handbook of botanical terminology and systems science . 1830-1844.
- Text-book of general botany . 1834-1840.
- Dictionary of descriptive botany . 1839.
- Medical-pharmaceutical botany . 1843. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Botany in its outline and according to its historical development . 1848.
- Contributions to the flora of Germany and Switzerland . 1851.
literature
- Adolf Engler: Bischoff, Gottlieb Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 673.
- Hermann goat bacon : Bischoff, Gottlieb Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 263 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 43 , 11.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bischoff, Gottlieb Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bischoff, Theophilus G .; Bischoff, Theophil G. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1797 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Dürkheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1854 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |