Johann Anton Schmidt

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Johann Anton Schmidt (born May 6, 1823 in Hamburg , † January 21, 1905 in Elberfeld ) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " JASchmidt ".

Life

Schmidt came from a wealthy Hamburg merchant family, did an apprenticeship as a gardener and in the seed trade at the family's request and studied botany from 1848 at the University of Heidelberg (with Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff ) and from 1849 at the University of Göttingen (with August Grisebach and Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling ), from which he received his doctorate in 1850 with a dissertation on the causes of plant spread. In 1851 he was on a collecting trip to the Cape Verde Islands and described the plants there (flora of Cape Verde) in his habilitation in Heidelberg.

From 1852 he was a private lecturer in Heidelberg and dealt with the regional flora there. He also made contributions, for example, on mint plants and figwort plants for the Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius . Also in 1852 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . After Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff's death in 1854 he became an associate professor in Heidelberg and provisionally headed the Botanical Garden. He hoped to be appointed full professor to succeed Bischoff and director of the Botanical Garden, but was passed over in 1863 in favor of Wilhelm Hofmeister (they didn't want a systematist). He then resigned and went back to Hamburg as a private scholar. In 1902 he suffered a stroke and after the death of his wife in 1904 he moved to live with his daughter in Elberfeld.

His herbarium is in Hamburg (Herbarium Hamburgense, HBG), his library went to Kiel.

Honors

The plant genus Antoschmidtia Steud is in his honor . named from the sweet grass family (Poaceae).

Fonts

  • Contributions to the flora of the Cape Verde Islands , Heidelberg 1852
  • Flora von Heidelberg , Heidelberg 1857

literature

  • Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists, 2001
  • E. Pfitzner: Johann Anton Schmidt. Reports of the German Botanical Society, Volume 23, 1905, pp. 21–24.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Johann Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES JASchmidt (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1905
Place of death Elberfeld