Johann Baumgarten

Johann Christian Gottlob Baumgarten (born April 7, 1765 in Luckau , Niederlausitz , † December 29, 1843 in Schäßburg , Transylvania ) was a German doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Baumg. "

Live and act

Baumgarten studied in Dresden and Leipzig and went to Transylvania in 1793, where he spent the rest of his life. Without any scientific training, he began researching the country's flora, which was hardly known at the time, and in 1816 published the first part of a four-volume work on flora, with which he did pioneering work. In his honor, the lancet-leaved bellflower got its botanical name, Campanula baumgartenii .

Works

• Johann Christian Gottlob Baumgarten: "Enumeratio stirpium magno Transsilvaniae principatui praeprimis indigenarum in usum nostratum botanophilorum conscripta inque ordinem sexualinaturalem concinnata.", Libraria Camesianae, Vindebonae, 4 vol., 1816 ff.

literature

• August Kanitz: An attempt at a history of Hungarian botany , in: Linnaea 17, Halle (Saale) 1864, pp. 401–664.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Baumgarten, Johann Christian Gottlieb . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 22nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, p. 475 ( digitized version ).
• Michael Fuß :  Baumgarten, Johann Christian Gottlob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 159 f.
• Hubert Illig: On the history of botanical research in western Lower Lusatia , in: Verh. Botan. Ver. Prov. Brandenburg 106, Berlin 1969, pp. 7-21.
• Erika Schneider: Doctor and botanist Johann Christian Gottlob Baumgarten born 250 years ago. In: Siebenbürgische Zeitung from April 11, 2015.

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Johann Baumgarten at the IPNI