Joachim Christian Timm (pharmacist)
Joachim Christian Timm (born December 7, 1734 in Wangerin ; † February 3, 1805 in Malchin ) was a German council pharmacist and mayor of Malchin. He is considered a pioneer of modern botany in Germany.
Life
Joachim Christian Timm was born as the son of tobacco spinner and shopkeeper Matthias Ernst Timm (1704–1779) in Wangerin in Western Pomerania . He attended the Rector's School in Wangerin and began a five-year apprenticeship with pharmacist Friedrich John from Michaelis 1749 in his place of birth, where he then worked for a year as an assistant. The wandering took Timm to Mecklenburg in the 1750s. Until 1757 he conditioned the Rostock doctor and pharmacist Dr. med. Wolff, later with Hofapotheker Bracht in Rostock. At the end of the 1750s, Timm finally came to Malchin as a provisional to pharmacist Georg Heinrich Krüger or his heirs. In 1760 Timm became a council pharmacist in Malchin. In 1771 he was elected senator. In 1778 Timm was second, from 1790 first mayor of Malchin. With his death, the tradition in the old Mecklenburg state parliament city ended that more than one mayor controlled the fortunes of the city at the same time.
As a pharmacist, he was also interested in botany . He eagerly collected all kinds of plants, especially cryptogams, mainly in the area around Malchin . In 1788 his work “Florae megapolitanae Prodromus” was published, which he had created based on his model, the Swedish botanist Carl von Linné . Professor Johannes Hedwig from Leipzig later named a genus of moss after him “ Timmia ” and especially a moss he found near Malchin (Mecklenburg) “Timmia Megapolitana”. Megapolitana here stands for Mecklenburg. A mountain on the Arctic Ellesmere Island was named after him as "Mount Timmia" at the instigation of the Timmia monograph Guy Brassard.
Timm had been with Anna Christine Elisabeth, born in 1762. Witte (1743–1792) married, a merchant's daughter from Röbel . Ten children were born in the marriage, including the sons Joachim (1768–1801) and Hans Timm (1774–1852), who successively succeeded their father as council pharmacists in Malchin. Another son, Helmuth Timm (1782–1848), became pastor in Groß Gievitz , and later in Malchin.
Works
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Florae Megapolitanae Prodromus. Müllerische Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1788 ( digitized version )
- Review: Allgemeine Literaturzeitung , vol. 1789, vol. 2, no. 108, 53–55 ( digitized version )
- Mayor Timm's description of the Malchin fire-proof clay clapboard roofs. In: Adolph Christian Siemssen (Ed.): Magazine for natural history and economics of Mecklenburg. Volume 2. Bärensprung, Leipzig and Schwerin, 1795, pp. 97-105 ( digitized version )
literature
- Karl Müller: Germany's Mosses. Schwetschke, Halle 1853. p. 161 [4. Genus Timmia, Nabekmoos]
- Heinrich Brockmüller: The mosses of Mecklenburg. § 1 History. In: Carl Michael Wiechmann (Ed.): Archive of the Association of Friends of Natural History in Mecklenburg. Volume 23. Opitz & Co, Güstrow 1870, p. 4–6 ( digitized version) [Ent .: CV]
- Gabriele Berg, Christian Berg: Type localities of mosses. Timmia megapolitana HEDW. In: Bryologische Rundbriefe , June 1995, No. 21, pp. 1-2. ( Digitized version )
- Malchin and Remplin. Self-published by the Böttcher brothers, Malchin 1998. p. 20
- Michael and Norbert Böttcher: The district of Demmin historical sites. Khs Verlag & Service GmbH, Stavenhagen 2000, pp. 97-101
- Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2001, pp. 519-520
Individual evidence
- ^ Gabriele & Christian Berg: Type localities of Moosen
- ↑ Her brother was Hofrat Samuel Simon Witte (1738–1802), professor of natural and international law at Friedrichs-Universität Bützow and its rector several times.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Timm, Joachim Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pharmacist and mayor of Malchin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1734 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wangerin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 3, 1805 |
| Place of death | Malchin |