Joachim Steetz
Joachim Steetz (born November 12, 1804 in Hamburg , † March 24, 1862 in Hamburg) was a doctor and botanist in Hamburg.
Life
Joachim Steetz was the son of the sugar manufacturer Zimbert Joachim Steetz (1765–1847) and his wife Anna Maria Schroedter. He went to school in Hamburg at the Johanneum and the Academic Gymnasium . In April 1825 he began studying medicine in Halle and went to Würzburg in autumn 1826 . In 1829 he submitted his doctoral thesis in surgery. From around 1830 he worked as a surgeon and obstetrician in Hamburg. Joachim Steetz married Johanna Henriette Möller on July 23, 1842. In 1849 he succeeded Johann Rudolph Sickmann (1779–1849) as an assistant at the botanical garden . With this position lectures and determinations of plants were connected. In 1857 he was accepted into the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists as JE Smith (after James Edward Smith ). He was a member of numerous scientific and research associations. Joachim Steetz was a member of the Commission of the Natural History Museum.
He owned a herbarium with around 5,000 different plants. After his death it came to Melbourne via Ferdinand von Müller . Theodor Siemssen (1816–1886) arranged the sale of the collection . He ran a successful trading company in Hamburg and was Joachim Steetz's brother-in-law. His sister Emilie had married the doctor and older brother Friedrich Christian August Siemssen in 1835.
Works
- The Tremandreen family and their relationship to the Lasiopetaleen family , a contribution to the expansion of the natural plant system, Hamburg 1853, digitized
- Enumeratio plantarum quas in Australasia annis 1838-1841 collegit L [udovicus] Preiss , undated , digitized
- Revisio generis Comesperma Labill. et synopsis lasiopetalearum et büttneriearum in Nova Hollandia indigenarum . Hamburg 1847, digitized
- Nekrolog [Wilhelm von Winthem]. In: Entomologische Verein zu Stettin (ed.): Entomologische Zeitung , 9. Jg., (No. 7.), 1849, pp. 194-198
Portraits
- Lithograph around 1862, inscribed in the stone: Druck d. lith. Inst. V. Ch. Fuchs , Hambg. / W. Graupenstein lith. 1862. Inscribed on the sheet: facsimile signature and dates of life. 35.5 x 25.1 cm.
literature
- 1025. Steetz (Joachim) . In: Adolph Carl Peter Callisen : Medicinisches Writer-Lexicon of the now living doctors, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists, and naturalists of all educated peoples, Copenhagen, 1834, 18th volume, Sem-St, p. 331, digitized
- 3888. Steetz, Joachim . In: Hans Schröder , Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . Volume 7, Hamburg: Perthes 1851, № 3888 ( online , State and University Library Hamburg)
- 440. Zimbert Joachim Steetz . In: F. Georg Bueck: The Hamburg upper elders , their bourgeois effectiveness and their families, Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, № 440, p. 330, digitized
- Personal-Nachrichten [Nekrolog], No. 19 of May 9, 1862 in the Botanische Zeitung , 20th year, Leipzig, 1862, p. 151, digitized
- Book review of The Tremandreen Family
Individual evidence
- ↑ F. Georg Bueck, p. 330
- ^ Adolph Carl Peter Callisen, p. 331
- ↑ diss. inaug. med. de laryngostenosi, digitized
- ↑ Hamburg address book (1831) (entries in the address book were usually made for the following year), p. 375, ( online )
- ↑ Hans Schröder , № 3888
- ↑ Flora or Allgemeine Botanische Zeitung , New Series VII. Volume, Volume 1 or (Whole Series) XXXII. Volume 1, Regensburg, 1849, page 223, ( digitized version )
- ↑ Hamburg address book (1847), authorities a. a. Corp., official information, section: Alphabetical directory of public institutions, charitable foundations and associations, scientific institutes, buildings worth seeing and other oddities, initially for strangers, p. 470, ( online ).
- ↑ Biography in Australian National Herbarium, ( online )
- ↑ presumably after a daguerreotype , ( online , State and University Library Hamburg)
- ↑ (No. 13, July 1, 1854), Bonplandia . Journal for the entire botany, (Official organ of the K. Leopold. Carol. Academy of Natural Scientists), 2nd year, Verlag Carl Rümpler, Hanover 1854, page 158, digitized
Web links
- Biography in Australian National Herbarium, ( online )
- Documents in the State and University Library Hamburg, ( online )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Steetz, Joachim |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Physicians and botanists in Hamburg |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1804 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 1862 |
Place of death | Hamburg |