Heinrich Emanuel Grabowski

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Heinrich Emanuel Grabowski (born July 11, 1792 in Leobschütz , † October 1, 1842 in Breslau ) was a German pharmacist and botanist in Silesia. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Grab. "

Life

In the grammar school in Leobschütz he completed the tertia and began training as a pharmacist with the medical assessor , pharmacist and botanist Karl Christian Günther (1769-1833) in Breslau. With Karl Günther and the Silesian botanist Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer , he published a directory of plants that occur in Silesia in 1824: Enumeratio stirpium phanerogamarum, quae in Silesia sponte proveniunt . In the years from 1827 to 1829 he wrote the three-volume work Flora Silesiae in Breslau with Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer .

Business trips to Prague and Vienna followed, where he attended pharmaceutical lectures. Heinrich Grabowski established himself as a pharmacist in Opole in 1824 . In 1836 he published an article on the occurrence of spring ragwort ( Senecio vernalis ) as well as supplements to the systematic directory of the botanists Rudolf Rohrer and Ernst Meyer .

When he became widowed, he sold the pharmacy and in 1840 moved to Breslau with three children. He then devoted himself to botanical research in Silesia and publications. He also conducted research in Moravian Jeseníky and in 1842 described the production of "forest wool" from pine and spruce needles near the town of Zuckmantel . He was a long-time member of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture .

Publications

  • with Karl Günther and Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer: Enumeratio stirpium phanerogamarum, quae in Silesia sponte proveniunt . Breslau 1824 (online)
  • Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer: Flora Silesiae I . Wroclaw, 1827
  • with Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer: Flora Silesiae II . Wroclaw, 1829
  • with Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer: Flora Silesiae III . Wroclaw, 1829
  • Correspondence about the frequent occurrence of Senecio vernalis in Silesia . In: Flora 19 (1836)
  • Supplements to the systematic index by Rohrer and Mayer . In: Flora 19 (1836)
  • Flora of Upper Silesia and the Jeseníky Mountains . Wroclaw, 1840
  • About some species of the Upper Silesian flora . In: Overview of the work and changes of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture , Breslau 1841
  • About forest wool, which is obtained in a sugar coat from pine and spruce needles . In: Overview of the work and changes of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture , Breslau 1842
  • Flora of Upper Silesia and the Jeseníky Mountains. Taking into account the geognostic soil and height conditions , Breslau 1843

Dedication names

The plant genus Grabowskia from the nightshade family (Solanaceae) is named in his honor. Other dedication names are:

  • Colymbacosta × grabowskiana
  • Cryptocoryne cordata var. Grabowskii
  • Cyperus grabowskianus (now synonymous with Cyperus compactus Retz. )
  • Hieracium × grabowskianum
  • Homalomena grabowskii
  • Ooia grabowskii
  • Rubus grabowskii

Web links

literature

  • New necrology of the Germans. Twentieth year, 1842, second part . Weimar 1844, pp. 706-707. (on-line)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Forest wool. Zeno.org , accessed May 24, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Grabowski, Heinrich Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Leobschütz
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1842
Place of death Wroclaw