Gustav Kunze

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Gustav Kunze

Gustav Kunze (born October 4, 1793 in Leipzig ; †  April 30, 1851 ibid) was a German botanist , bryologist, spongiologist, entomologist and doctor. Its botanical author's abbreviation is " Kunze ".

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In 1813, Kunze enrolled at the University of Leipzig . In 1819 he became a doctor of medicine doctorate . During his studies he already undertook scientific excursions through Germany, the results of which he described in volume 1 of the "Mykologische Hefte" in 1817. In 1815 he wrote articles about sponges for various booklets . In 1818 the "Entomological Fragments" were published in the "Neue Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Halle". Kunze enjoyed a very good reputation as a botanist from an early age, so that from 1817 he became a member of the Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh. Membership in the Botanical Society in Regensburg followed in 1818, in the Society of Natural Scientists in Moscow in 1819 and membership in over 20 other scientific societies in Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden and Italy. In 1820 he became a member of the Leopoldina . In 1818 he was a co-founder of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig and from 1822 its secretary. In the same year he became an associate professor of medicine and a few years later curator and librarian at the United Gehlerschen Medicinische Bibliothek in Leipzig . He held this position until 1848. In 1835 he became an associate professor and in 1845 a full professor of botany. In 1837 he took over the management of the Botanical Garden at the University of Leipzig .

Kunze's botanical research focus was the ferns, about which he wrote the two-volume work "The fern herbs in colored illustrations faithfully explained and described - Schkuhr's fern herbs" between 1840 and 1851. These explanations are considered to be one of the first detailed classifications on cryptogams .

In addition to his botanical work, Kunze also conducted entomological studies. In 1818, for example, he wrote a monograph on the genus of the cane beetles ( Donacia ), in the same year described the genus Zeugophora and in 1822 published the "Monograph of the ant beetles (Scydmaenus Latr.)" Together with Philipp Wilbrand Jacob Müller .

Dedication names

The natural scientist Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach named the Australian plant genus Kunzea from the myrtle family (Myrtaceae) in honor of Gustav Kunze.

Fonts (selection)

  • Contributions to the monograph of the cane beetles. In: New writings of the natural research society in Halle. Vol. 2 (1818), H. 4, pp. 1-56.
  • Zeugophora (main beam) a new genus of beetles. In: New writings of the natural research society in Halle. Vol. 2 (1818), H. 4, pp. 71-76.
  • De dysphagia, inprimis oesophagea a caussis organicis adiecta nova morbi historia tabulaque aenea. Dissertatio Inauguralis pathologico-anatomica. Leipzig 1819.
  • with Philipp Wilbrand Jacob Müller: Monograph of the ant beetles (Scydmaenus Latr.). Leipzig 1822.
  • Plantarum acotyledonearum Africae australioris recensio nova. Leipzig 1836.
  • The ferns are explained and described true to life in colored illustrations. Vol. 1 (delivery 1-10). Leipzig 1840–1847.
  • The ferns are explained and described true to life in colored illustrations. Vol. 2 (delivery 11-14). Leipzig 1848–1851.

literature

  • Author anonymous: Nekrolog In: Academic monthly journal . Published by H. Bethmann, 1851: p. 399
  • Ernst Wunschmann:  Kunze, Gustav . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 400-403.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Named after the geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner
  2. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Gustav Kunze
  3. ↑ Named after the doctor Johann Carl Gehler
  4. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Kunze, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist, bryologist, spongiologist, entomologist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1851
Place of death Leipzig