Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg

Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg (born September 18, 1781 in Lübeck , † June 6, 1851 in Hamburg-Bergedorf (district) ) was a German lawyer and botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Lindenb. "

Live and act

Lindenberg was the eldest son of Lübeck's mayor Johann Caspar Lindenberg from his second marriage. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and studied law in Jena and Göttingen . After completing his doctorate, he was a lawyer in Lübeck from 1806. After the French occupation of Lübeck, he went to Hamburg, where he was a lawyer and, after the end of the French occupation, administrator of the two-city office in Bergedorf .

In addition to his work as a lawyer and administrative officer, he dealt with botany and was a leading authority on liverworts . Its first publication was made through the mediation of the director of the Botanical Garden in Hamburg Johann Georg Christian Lehmann in Linnaea in 1821 . In 1829 a book was published on European liverworts (Synopsis Hepaticarum europaearum adnexis observationibus et adnotationibus criticis illustrata) and in 1831 a monograph on star liverworts (Riccien). In 1829 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . From 1844 to 1847 he was involved in the publication of the large monograph on liverwort Synopsis Hepaticarum with Karl Moritz Gottsche and Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck . He also worked with Gottsche on a multi-volume Species Hepaticarum (treatment of liverworts according to genera), which appeared from 1839 and remained unfinished (volumes on the genera Plagiochila, Lepidozia, Mastigobryum).

The genus Lindenbergia in the family of Broomrape family (Orobanchaceae) is named after him.

Fonts

• with Karl Moritz Gottsche, CG Nees van Esenbeck: Synopsis Hepaticarum , Hamburg, 5 parts, 1844–1847 ( doi: 10.5962 / bhl.title.15221 , online ).
• with Gottsche: Species Hepaticarum . 11 issues, 1839–1851.

literature

• Ernst Wunschmann:  Lindenberg, Johann Bernhard Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 688 f.
• Harald Richert: Castle captains and officials in Bergedorf . In Lichtwark booklet no. 59. Ed. Lichtwark Committee, 1994. See now: Verlag HB-Werbung, Hamburg-Bergedorf, ISSN  1862-3549 .
• Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists , 2001 ( digitized )

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg at the IPNI