Johan Martin Christian Lange

Johan Martin Christian Lange (photography, ca.1860)

Johan Martin Christian Lange (born March 20, 1818 in Ødstedgaard , Fredericia , † April 3, 1898 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Lange ".

Life

For a long time he was a professor at the Veterinary College in Copenhagen . He was editor of the supplies 44 to 51 (1858 to 1883) of Flora Danica . He collected many plants in the south of France and in Spain.

Honors

The mushroom genus Willkommlangea Kuntze is named after him and Heinrich Moritz Willkomm .

Works

Descriptio iconibus illustrata plantarum novarum… e flora hispanica . (1864-1866).
Haandbog i den Danske Flora . (1850-1851, 4th edition 1886-1888).
Revisio specierum generis Crataegi… quae in hortis Daniae coluntur . 1897.
Arboretum scandinavicum . 1883.
together with Heinrich Moritz Willkomm : Prodromus florae hispanicae… (1861–1880, Supplement 1893).

literature

E. Rostrup: Lange, Johan Martin Christian . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 10 : Laale – Løvenørn . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1896, p. 29-32 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
Robert Zander : Zander concise dictionary of plant names . Ed .: Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

Individual evidence

↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1978. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Johan Martin Christian Lange at the IPNI

personal data
SURNAME	Lange, Johan Martin Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 20, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ødstedgaard , Fredericia
DATE OF DEATH	April 3, 1898
Place of death	Copenhagen

[Zander2008-1] Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1978. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7

[Burkhardt2018-2] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]