Carl Haussknecht

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Heinrich Carl Haussknecht

Heinrich Carl Haussknecht (born November 30, 1838 in Bennungen ; † July 7, 1903 in Weimar ) was a German pharmacist and botanist . His botanical author abbreviation is " Hausskn. ".

Life

Haussknecht was a pharmacist by profession and had been an assistant in Bremgarten, Canton Aargau, and Aigle, Canton Vaud since 1857. He dealt with the flora of the Swiss Alps and got to know Pierre Edmond Boissier .

Haussknecht studied botany and pharmacy at the University of Breslau . In 1864 he finished his studies with the state examination. He then led a trip from 1864 to 1869 via Eastern Anatolia, Kurdistan and Luristan through Persia and the Persian Gulf. He discovered and mapped antiquities and put on botanical collections.

In 1882 he was a co-founder of the Thuringian Botanical Association . He was a corresponding member of the Thuringian-Saxon Association for Geography. In 1885 he traveled to northern Greece with Theodor von Heldreich .

On October 18, 1896, he founded the Haussknecht herbarium . It was initially located in Weimar and is now part of the Institute for Special Botany at the University of Jena .

Honors

In 1889 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

The genus Haussknechtia Boiss. in the umbelliferae family (Apiaceae) has been named in his honor.

Fonts (selection)

  • Preliminary report on Prof. C. Haussknecht's oriental journeys / together with explanations by Prof. Dr. H. Kiepert. In: Journal of the Society for Geography. Vol. 17 (1882).
  • Monograph of the genus Epilobium. G. Fischer, Jena 1884.
  • About the descent of the Saathabers. In: Communications from the Geographical Society for Thuringia to Jena. Vol. 3 (1885), pp. 231-242.

literature

  • Christian Faludi: Eloisa Köhler, Friedrich Stier and the Herbarium Haussknecht Foundation in the Weimar Republic . In: Zeitschrift für Thüringische Geschichte , 73 (2019), pp. 265–274.
  • Matthias Gründig: The Shah in the box. Social image practices in the age of the carte de visite. Marburg: Jonas Verlag 2016. ISBN 978-3-89445-530-9 (study on the photographic collection of Carl Haussknecht with a complete reprint of this collection in the catalog section of the book)
  • Elisabeth Müller, Kristin Victor (ed.): Sheet on sheet. Unique stories from the Haussknecht herbarium. Weimar: VDG 2016. ISBN 978-3-89739-873-3
  • Jürgen Pusch, Klaus-Jörg Barthel, Wolfgang Heinrich (eds.): Die Botaniker Thüringens , Jena 2015, (Haussknechtia supplement 18), pp. 203–205. ISSN  0863-6451
  • Kristin Victor (ed.): Carl Haussknecht. A life for botany , Jena 2013, (contributions from the collections of the University of Jena, Volume 2). ISBN 978-3-00-044408-1 .
  • Dietrich von Engelhardt (ed.): Biographical encyclopedia of German-speaking natural scientists. Volume 1: A – O, Munich 2003. ISBN 3-598-11629-2 .
  • F. Karl Meyer:  Haussknecht, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 128 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • N. N .: In memory of the botanist Karl Haußknecht . In: Thuringian Homeland Security. 5 (1939), No. 2, pp. 9-10. ZDB ID 401004-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of the members of the Thuringian-Saxon Geography Association on March 31, 1885 ( Memento from December 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Member entry by Karl Haussknecht at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 26, 2015.
  3. ↑ Robert Zander : Zander hand dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
  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 Haussknecht, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haussknecht, Heinrich Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Names
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1903
Place of death Weimar