Johan Peter Falck
Johan Peter Falck , including Johann and Falk or Pehr Falk , (* 26. November 1732 in Broddetorp , Västergötland , † March 20 . Jul / 31 March 1774 greg. In Kazan ) was a Swedish naturalist. Its botanical author abbreviation is Falk .
Life
Falck was the son of Peter Falck and Benta (nee Vinge). He studied from 1751 at Uppsala University , where he did his doctorate under Carl von Linné . On June 23, 1762 he defended his dissertation on the subject: Planta Alströmeria . He was also employed by Linnaeus as a teacher for his son.
From 1765 he was professor of medicine and botany in Saint Petersburg . In 1768 he was commissioned to accompany the expedition of the German geographer Peter Simon Pallas to Siberia . The Tsarina Catherine II financed it. During the expedition he got sick and depressed. The expedition was already on the way back when he suffered from severe hallucinations, paranoia and anxiety in 1773 and spent the winter in Kazan weakened by his illness. He tried to relieve his symptoms with opium, but this made his condition worse. In March 1774 he was found dead by his colleague Johann Gottlieb Georgi , who had also taken part in the expedition. He had killed himself with a pistol shot.
Georgi, who translated many of Linnaeus' books into German, brought Falck's manuscripts to Saint Petersburg and published the travel notes in Additions to the Topographical Knowledge of the Russian Empire I-III (1785–1786).
Dedication names
His colleague and also a PhD student of Linnaeus, Carl Peter Thunberg , dedicated to him in 1781 the botanical genus Falckia from the plant family of wind plants .
literature
- 1. Falck, Johan Peter . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 322 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- TOBN Krok: Falck. 1. Johan Peter F. (i Ryssland Ivan Petrovitj) . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 7 : Egyptologi-Feinschmecker . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1907, Sp. 1294-1295 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Sigurd Lindman: Johan Peter Falck. In: Svenskt Biografiskt Lexicon. Volume 15, 1956, p 96 ( sok.riksarkivet.se ).
Web links
- Correspondence between Johan Peter Falck and Carl von Linné
- Dissertation by Johan Peter Falck (PDF; 4 MB)
- OL Noskowa: Johan Peter Falck - Carl Linné's pupil in Russia. (PDF; 535 kB) Institute for Ecology at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Togliatti, 2007 (Russian)
- Biography , Biologija (Russian)
- Literature by and about Falck, Johan Peter 1733–1773 in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Falck, Johan Pehr (1733–1774). In: jstor.org. plants.jstor.org, accessed June 7, 2019 .
- ^ Johann Peter Falk: Additions to the topographical knowledge of the Russian Empire . tape 1-3 . Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1785 ( e-rara.ch ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Falck, Johan Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Falck, Johann Peter; Falck, Ivan Petrovitj; Falck, Johan Pehr |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish naturalist and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1732 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Broddetorp , Västergötland |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1774 |
| Place of death | Kazan |