Johan Zoëga

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Johan Zoëga (born October 7, 1742 in Ravsted , † December 29, 1788 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish botanist, entomologist and economist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Zoëga ".

Life

Johan Zoëga was born the son of the preacher Paul Christian Zoëga (1703–1776). He came from a widely ramified pastor family whose ancestor Matthias Zoëga had come to Schleswig-Holstein as an Italian nobleman from Verona because of his participation in a duel around 1570 . Zoëga attended the Latin school Breitenausches Gestift in Plön and the Christianeum , at that time an academic high school in Altona , where his first disputation appeared in print. Together with his friend Johann Christian Fabricius, he studied medicine and pharmaceutical science at the University of Copenhagen and botany at the University of Uppsala under Carl von Linné . He had a close friendship with Linnaeus and his son of the same name . After returning to Copenhagen, he became Georg Christian Oeder's assistant at Botanisk Have . As a botanist, he arranged the papers left by Peter Forsskål from Carsten Niebuhr's Arab journey and published on the mosses on Iceland and Bornholm .

He became the clerk of the Danish Pension Chamber and later belonged to the Danish Finance College, from 1788 onwards with the character of a budget council. As such, he published on economic issues in Denmark and the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein .

The Danish archaeologist and diplomat Georg Zoëga was a cousin of his.

Honors

The plant genus Zoegea L. from the sunflower family (Asteraceae) is named after him.

Fonts

  • Flora Islandica , Soroe 1772, Copenhagen and Leipzig 1775
  • Attempt to develop fixed concepts of work and trade , Copenhagen and Altona 1787 ( digitized version )
  • Something to explain about coinage in general and about the origin and nature of the Danish coin base , Proft, Copenhagen 1789 (translation by Hieronymus Kamphövener )

literature

  • [Friedrich Georg Oye]: Some news from the life of the late budget councilor J [ohan]. Zoëga , Provinzialberichte 1789, Issue 5, pp. 150–176 ( digitized p. 466 ff. (Anthology) ), also appeared in Danish in Minerva 1789 before the German original was published
  • Dietrich Heinrich Stöver: Bibliographical-characteristic description of Zoega in: Historical-statistical contributions to the closer knowledge of the states , Hamburg 1789, pp. 242–248 ( digitized version )
  • Rasmus Nyerup, Jens Edvard Kraft: Almindeligt Litteraturlexicon for Danmark, Norge, og Iceland: eller Fortegeelse over Danske, norske, og islandske, saavel afdte som nu levende Forfattern, med Anførelse af deres vigtigste Levents Omstaendigheder og list over deres Skrifter , Volume 2, Gyldendal, 1819, pp. 686/687 (Danish)
  • Zoega, Johan in: Dansk biografisk leksikon , 1st edition, Volume 19, 1905 (Danish)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. EF Schmersahl's New Messages from Recently Deceased Scholars , Volume 2 in the article Christian Zoëga , p. 291 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Correspondence with Linnaeus
  3. ↑ It was the second of four botanical gardens at the University of Copenhagen in a row to date, north of Frederik Hospital and divided by Amaliegade Street. The first botanical garden in Copenhagen dates back to 1600
  4. ↑ 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 .
personal data
SURNAME Zoëga, Johan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish botanist, entomologist and economist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravsted
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1788
Place of death Copenhagen