Jean Baptiste Ziz
Jean Baptiste Ziz (born October 8, 1779 in Mainz , † December 1, 1829 there ) was a pharmacist and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Ziz ".
Career
Johann Baptist Ziz was born in Mainz as the son of the wine merchant and landowner Melchior Ziz. From 1796 he began his apprenticeship with the Mainz pharmacist Baymer. After his training he studied in Erfurt with Johann Bartholomäus Trommsdorff and in Berlin and then worked as a pharmacist in Kassel , Frankfurt and Darmstadt . In 1807 he returned to Mainz , then French , and passed the pharmacist examination there. However, he did not take over a pharmacy, but mainly dealt with botany. He became a member of various learned societies (Regensburger Botanische Gesellschaft, Senckenbergische Gesellschaft in Frankfurt a. M., Wetterau Society in Hanau), undertook botanical trips to southern France and the Pyrenees and stood with Philipp Salzmann , Augustin-Pyrame de Candolle , Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch and other botanists in lively exchange.
When the typhoid de Mayence 1813 Mainz struck as Kriegspest, he took over in the absence of provisor the management of Mainz Mohrenapotheke. In 1819 he took over the post of natural science teacher at the grammar school in Mainz and became a pharmacist in the medical college . After he had become medical advisor in 1824, he received his doctorate from the University of Erfurt in 1826 . In 1829 he was accepted into the board of directors of the Mainz University Fund. He died on December 1, 1829. He bequeathed his rich library to the Mainz high school and his very sizeable herbarium to the Grand Ducal Museum in Darmstadt. Today it forms the basis of the herbarium of the Botanical Institute of the Technical University .
Honors
The plant genus Zizia from the family of Umbelliferae (Apiaceae) has been named after him, in order to appreciate Ziz 'merits.
Fonts
- Catalogus plantarum, quae in ditione Florae Palatinatus legerunt, in amicorum usum conscriptus Koch et JB Ziz , in: amicorum usum conscriptus; Phanerogamia, Mainz 1814
- Botanical finding aid for the areas of Rheinhessen, Rheingau, Untere Nahe in: Stadtbibliothek Mainz urn: nbn: de: 0128-3-2427 , 171 pp.
honors and awards
- Member of the Regensburg Botanical Society
- Member of the Wetterau Society , Hanau
- Member of the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research
source
- An unknown work by the Mainz botanist Ziz (1779–1829).
Individual evidence
- ^ Bernhard Friedrich Voigt : New Nekrolog der Deutschen Volume 7, New Nekrolog der Deutschen
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ ClassificationServlet
- ↑ Zizia aurea
- ↑ Copia archiviata . Archived from the original on September 16, 2008. US Department of the Interior: Ovalleaf Golden Alexander ( Zizea aptera )
- ↑ Catalogus plantarum quas in ditione florae Palatinatus legerunt at Bavarian State Library
- ↑ An unknown work by the Mainz botanist Ziz (1779–1829) by Professor Dr. LUDWIG SPILGER, Darmstadt
Web link
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Jean Baptiste Ziz at the IPNI
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ziz, Jean Baptiste |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ziz, Johann Baptist |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pharmacist and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1779 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mainz |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1, 1829 |
| Place of death | Mainz |