Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl

Johann Pohl (1782–1834)

Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl (born February 23, 1782 in Böhmisch-Kamnitz , † May 22, 1834 in Vienna ) was an Austrian botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Pohl ".

Live and act

Pohl came to see his uncle in Pölitz when he was eight or nine years old . The uncle woke Pohl's interest in botany and after attending high school in Prague , he heard lectures at the University of Prague on medicine . He eventually began studying medicine, which he completed in 1808. In addition, he dealt with the mineralogy of Bohemia and wrote several articles on this topic. After completing his studies, Pohl supplemented the chair of Johann Christian Mikan (1769–1844) and worked as a substitute doctor in a military hospital. From 1817 to 1821 he took part in the Austrian expedition to Brazil , which was carried out on the occasion of the marriage of Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria to the Crown Prince of Brazil , Dom Pedro . After his return he took a position as curator at the Wiener Hof-Naturalien-Cabinet and wrote a two-volume work on the journey in the interior of Brazil and the botanical studies Plantarum Brasilliae icones et descriptiones hactenus ineditae . In 1833 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Honors

The plant genus Pohlana Mart is named after Pohl . & Nees from the diamond family (Rutaceae).

Fonts

Johann Pohl: Adumbrationes plantarum juxta exemplaria naturalia . 1804.
Tentamen florae Bohemiae . (1809-1814).
Plantarum Brasilliae icones et descriptiones hactenus ineditae . (1826-1833).
Travel inside Brazil . Vienna (1832–1837, digitized volume 1 ).

literature

Sylk Schneider: Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl and Goethe . In: Sylk Schneider: Goethe's trip to Brazil . Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-937939-69-8 , pp. 110-114.
Günther: Pohl, Johann Emanuel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 369 f.
H. Riedl: Pohl Johann Emanuel. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 154.
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

↑ 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 .

Web links

Literature by and about Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl in the German Digital Library
Author entry and list of the plant names described for Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl at the IPNI

personal data
SURNAME	Pohl, Johann Baptist Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 23, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bohemian Kamnitz
DATE OF DEATH	May 22, 1834
Place of death	Vienna

[Burkhardt_2018-1] 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 .