Heinrich Moritz Welcome

Heinrich Moritz Welcome

Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (born June 29, 1821 in Herwigsdorf , Saxony ; † August 26, 1895 at Wartenberg Castle in Stráž pod Ralskem , Bohemia ) was a German botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Willk. "

Live and act

Willkomm was born as the son of the Herwigsdorf pastor Mag. Carl Gottlob Willkomm and his wife Amalia (née Bergmann). He was the younger brother of the scholar Ernst Adolf Willkomm . Heinrich Moritz worked at the University of Leipzig , among others . He worked as a professor of natural history in Tharandt , then at the University of Dorpat and finally from 1874 to 1892 as a professor and director at the Charles University in Prague .

He wrote dozens of works in various fields of botany. His works contain many valuable lithographic images. In the 1840s he made trips to the Iberian Peninsula ; he was considered an authority on the flora of this region.

Together with Robert Hartig (1839–1901) he is considered the founder of forest phytopathology .

In 1896, Willkomm wrote Volume 1 of the work Die Vegetation der Erde by Adolf Engler and Oscar Drude on "Principles of Plant Distribution on the Iberian Peninsula".

In 1867 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Honors

In 1888 the plant genus Willkommia Hack was named in honor of Willkomm . from the sweet grass family (Poaceae). The generic name Willkommlangea Kuntze for a genus of mushrooms (Fungi) also honors him and the Danish botanist Johan Martin Christian Lange for their joint work "Prodromus florae hispanicae". The generic name Willbleibia Herter emerged from both names in 1953 as a play on words ("Will come and stay") , which was used again as an honor for Willkomm for a genus of sweet grasses (Poaceae).

During his studies Willkomm became a member of the Leipzig fraternity of Kochei in 1842 , and in 1890 an honorary boy of the Arminia fraternity in Prague .

Works

• Two years in Spain and Portugal: travel memories. Volume 1 . 1847 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Two years in Spain and Portugal: travel memories. Volume 2 . 1847 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• The beach and steppe areas of the Iberian Peninsula and their vegetation. A contribution to physical geography, geognosy and botany . 1852 ( csic.es ).
• The peninsula of the Pyrenees a geographical-statistical monograph, according to the latest sources and according to your own opinion . Leipzig 1855 ( csic.es ).
• Basic features of the plant distribution on the Iberian Peninsula . 1896 ( csic.es ).
• Icones et descriptiones plantarum novarum…, praecipue Hispaniae . (1852-1862).
• Prodromus florae hispanicae .
• Forest flora of Germany and Austria . (1872-1875).
• Atlas of Botany . 1873.
• Illustrationes florae Hispaniae insularumque Balearium . (1881-1892).
• Natural history of the plant kingdom according to the Linnean system . Schreiber, Esslingen 1890.
• The Pyrenean Peninsula: in three sections / by Moritz Willkomm. - Prague: Tempsky, 1884.
  • Volume 1: Physical paintings of the peninsula and portrayal of Portugal , urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-11823

literature

• Juan Antonio Devesa Alcaraz: Viajes de un botánico sajón por la Península Ibérica: Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (1821–1895). Cáceres: Univ. de Extremadura, 2001. 375 pp.: Ill. ISBN 84-7723-451-5 . 1991 ( csic.es [PDF; 482 kB ]).
• H. Tankler, K. Voolma: Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (1821–1895) yes tema osa metsateaduses . In: Metsanduslikud Uurimused . tape 31 , 1999, p. 23–35 (translation of the title: Heinrich Moritz Willkomm (1821–1895) and his role in forest science).
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 725–728.
• Ernst Wunschmann:  Welcome, Moritz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 298-300.

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• Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names. Edited by Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-946292-10-4 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2016
2. ↑ Fraternity leaves . XIV., Berlin 1900, p. 281.

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich Moritz Willkomm  - Sources and full texts

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Heinrich Moritz Willkomm at the IPNI
• Overview of Heinrich Moritz Willkomm's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1852 to winter semester 1855)
• Short entry at hshsl.umaryland.edu (English)
• Member entry of Moritz Willkomm (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on December 17, 2015.