Johann August Tittmann

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Johann August Tittmann (born May 25, 1774 in Bühla ; † December 11, 1840 in Dresden ) was a German physician and botanist .

Life

Johann August Tittmann was the son of a pastor from Bühla. After the early death of his father in 1785, Tittmann attended school in Northeim , then did an apprenticeship with the apothecary student in Elbingeroda and then worked in the Müller pharmacy in Wernigerode . In 1794 he moved to Dresden to his uncle Johann August Tittmann (1734-1812), who worked as a mathematics professor at the Dresden Military Academy, continued his education at the Collegium Medicum and in 1795 began studying at the University of Leipzig .

Tittmann received the Baccalaureus of Medicine in 1797 and became a Master of Arts in 1798 and a Dr. phil. and in 1801 Dr. med. PhD .

After a short stay in Göttingen, he settled as a doctor in Dresden, where he practiced as a doctor, gave lectures at the Medical and Surgical Academy on pharmaceutical botany from 1804 and was secretary of the Collegium Medicum from 1805 to 1813. After the death of his uncle on December 17, 1812, he became the heir to the court seat of Röda and Monstab in Altenburg, gave up his practice and offices and from that time devoted himself almost exclusively to his botanical and mineralogical research. Shortly before his death, he learned the Hebrew language and completed the manuscript of an extensive work on biblical plants, which, along with his drawings and some of the lithographs that had already been completed, remained in his estate at the time.

He was a royal Saxon mountain ridge and a member of the Botanical Society of Regensburg , the Leipzig Economic Society and, after the split, also a member of the Economic Society in the Kingdom of Saxony in Dresden. On November 28, 1821 he was elected a member (matriculation no. 1232) of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Gaertnerus .

The plant genus Tittmannia Brongniard from the Bruniaceae family was named in his honor in 1826 .

Tittmann had been married to his wife Friederike Sophie, née Strobach, since 1805. The couple had 2 daughters.

He was buried in the Elias cemetery in Dresden.

Fonts

  • System of Wundarzney Art. Surgery textbook intended for lectures at the Dresden Collegium Medico-Chirurgicum . First department, Reinicke & Hinrichs, Leipzig 1800 digitized
  • System of Wundarzney Art. Surgery textbook intended for lectures at the Dresden Collegium Medico-Chirurgicum . Second department, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1801 digitized
  • System of Wundarzney Art. Surgery textbook intended for lectures at the Dresden Collegium Medico-Chirurgicum . Third department, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1802 digitized
  • On the study of botany as one of the most useful and pleasant occupations for all classes . Pinther, Pirna 1802 digitized
  • Of the topical medicines for eye diseases . Arnold, Dresden 1804
  • System of Wundarzney Art. Surgery textbook intended for lectures at the Dresden Collegium Medico-Chirurgicum . Second edition, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1810–1811 digitized
  • About the seed embryo and its development into a plant . Walther, Dresden 1817 digitized
  • The germination of plants, through descriptions, etc. Images of individual seeds a. Seedlings explained . Walther, Dresden 1821 digitized

literature

  • Johann August Tittmann . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen, 18, 1840, 2. Part, Weimar 1842, pp. 1155–1158 digitized
  • Tittmann, Johann August . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2nd edition. Volume 10, Saur, Munich 2008, pp. 54-55 digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 254 (archive.org)
  2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names. Index of Eponymic Plant Names. Index de Noms Eponymes des Genres Botaniques. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin, Berlin 2016, p. T-23 digitized
personal data
SURNAME Tittmann, Johann August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaertnerus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Bühla
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1840
Place of death Dresden