Hermann Karsten (botanist)
Hermann Karsten (born November 6, 1817 in Stralsund , † July 10, 1908 in Sopot ; full name: Karl Hermann Gustav Karsten , also: Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten ) was a Prussian, German botanist and geologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " H.Karst. ".
Short biography
Hermann Karsten came from a widespread family of scholars from Mecklenburg and was a grandson of the agricultural scientist Lorenz Karsten (1751-1829). He was the son of the landlord, Königl. prussia. Government secretary and chancellery adviser Christian Karsten (1785–1847) and his wife Dorette Cierow (1792–1824) were born in Stralsund. He studied in Rostock and Berlin and traveled from 1843 to 1847 and again from 1848 to 1856 South America , where he was in Venezuela , New Granada , Ecuador and Colombia . He then taught as an associate professor of botany in Berlin and from 1868 to 1872 in the same subject as a full professor in Vienna , where he founded a laboratory. He then lived in Switzerland and Berlin and also founded a plant physiology laboratory in Berlin.
Hermann Karsten was married twice. Of his three children, only their daughter Rose Karsten (* 1860) was older than ten years.
Karsten was the cousin of the eponymous mineralogist Hermann Karsten (1809–1877) and the physicist Gustav Karsten (1820–1900).
In 1844 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Works (selection)
- -, CF Schmidt (Ill.): Selection of new and beautifully blooming plants from Venezuela . Publishing house of Decker's secret upper court book printing company, Berlin 1848. - Full text online .
- Directory of the fossils from the Sternberg rock located in the Rostock Academic Museum . Adler, Rostock 1849. - Full text online .
- -, Hugo von Mohl (recipient of the dedication): The sex life of plants and the parthenogenesis . Publishing house of the Royal Secret Upper Hofbuchdruckerei, Berlin 1860. - Full text online .
- Florae Columbiae terrarumque adiacentium specimina selecta in peregrinatione duodecima annorum observata . Dümmler, Berlin 1861 and 1869. -
- Textbook of crystallography . Voss, Leipzig 1861. - Full text online .
- Collected contributions to the anatomy and physiology of plants . Volume 1. 1843-1863. Dümmler, Berlin 1865. - Full text online .
- Chemism of the plant cell. A morphological-chemical study of the yeast with consideration of the nature, the origin and the distribution of the contagia. Braumüller, Vienna 1869. - Full text online .
- German flora. Pharmaceutical-medical botany. An outline of systematic botany for self-study for doctors, pharmacists and botanists . Spaeth, Berlin 1880–1883. - Full text online .
- Illustrated revision course of pharmaceutically-medicinal botany and pharmacognosy . Springer, Berlin 1886.
- Flora of Germany, Austria and Switzerland including the foreign medicinal and technically important plants, drugs and their chemical-physiological properties. For all friends of the plant world . Volume 1. 2., increased and improved edition. Köhler, Gera-Untermhaus 1895. - Full text online .
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Karsten, Hermann Gustav . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 28th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1874, p. 357 ( digitized version ).
- Carlos Schubert: Hermann Karsten (1851) y Wilhelm Sievers (1888): las primeras descripciones e interpretaciones sobre el óigen de las terrazas aluviales en la Córdillera de Mérida . In: Boletín de Historia de las Geociencias en Venezuela , No. 44, pp. 15-19.
- Karl Mägdefrau: Karsten, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 305 f. ( Digitized version ).
- 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 .
Web links
- Literature about Hermann Karsten in the state bibliography MV
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Hermann Karsten (botanist) at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reto Nyffeler (Red.): Gustav Carl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (November 6, 1817– July 10, 1908) ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: herbarien.uzh.ch , University of Zurich , November 25, 2011, accessed on June 1, 2012.
- ↑ Official part. (...). In: Wiener Zeitung , August 12, 1868, p. 1, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karsten, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Karsten, Karl Hermann Gustav (full name); Karsten, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stralsund |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1908 |
| Place of death | Sopot |