Gustav Schübler

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Gustav Schübler (born August 15, 1787 in Heilbronn , † September 8, 1834 in Tübingen ) was a German scientist. Its botanical author abbreviation is " Schübl. "

Life

Gustav Schübler was the eldest son of the Mayor of Heilbronn, Christian Ludwig Schübler (1754-1820). He first attended the Heilbronn grammar school and later that in Ellwangen (Jagst) , where the family had moved after the takeover of Heilbronn by Württemberg . In 1806 he began studying natural sciences and medicine at the University of Tübingen . He became a member of the Corps Suevia I . After a short time in Vienna , he established himself as a general practitioner in Stuttgart in 1811 . In 1812 he went to the Fellenberg Institute in Hofwil as a teacher . He later came to the University of Tübingen as a professor of natural history and botany . He has published widely on scientific topics. His most important work is the Flora von Würtemberg published in 1834 , which he wrote together with Georg Matthias von Martens and in which all of the higher plants native to Württemberg were recorded and described for the first time. Schübler is also the doctoral supervisor of Albert Zeller (1830). From 1819, Schübler was married to the pastor's daughter Karoline Kern (1800–1874). The marriage had a son. In 1826 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He was a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. Schübler died shortly before the publication of his Flora von Württemberg, which he wrote together with Martens.

Honors

According to Schübler, the plant genus is Schuebleria Mart. named from the gentian family (Gentianaceae).

Fonts

  • Georg Cless, Gustav Schübler: Attempt of a Medical Topography of the Royal Capital and Residence City of Stuttgart (1815)
  • Investigations of the earth types in economic terms (1817)
  • About the vegetation conditions in Switzerland at different heights (1824)
  • The caves of the Württemberg Alps (1824)
  • Investigations into the effects of various substances on the life of plants (1826)
  • Investigations into the influence of the moon on the changes in our atmosphere (1830)
  • Principles of Agricultural Chemistry (1831)
  • Principles of meteorology in closer relation to Germany's climate (1831)
  • News about the conditions of viticulture in Würtemberg. From the year 1236-1830 a. more important related weather phenomena (1831)
  • Gustav Schübler, Georg Matthias von Martens: Flora von Würtemberg (1834)

literature

  • Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Significant Heilbronn (III) . In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice . 15th year, no. 1 . Heilbronner Voice publishing house, January 11, 1969, ZDB -ID 128017-X .
  • Ernst Wunschmann:  Schübler, Gustav . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 639 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 197/39
  2. ↑ List of members since 1666: Letter S. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 27, 2020 (French, here incorrect indication of the year of admission).
  3. ↑ 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 .
personal data
SURNAME Schübler, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German natural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1834
Place of death Tübingen