Johann Christian Hebenstreit (botanist)

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Johann Christian Hebenstreit (born June 28, 1720 in Kleinjena , today part of Naumburg ; † September 27, 1795 in Leipzig ) was a German doctor and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Hebenstr. ".

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Johann Christian Hebenstreit studied medicine at the University of Leipzig from 1740 to 1748 . He initially practiced as a doctor in Naumburg, but went to Saint Petersburg in 1749 , where he was professor of botany and natural history at the Russian Academy of Sciences .

In 1751 he became the personal physician of Count Kyrylo Rosumowskyj , the president of the academy, and accompanied him to the Ukraine . He stayed here until the end of 1753. On March 1, 1753 he became an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. After a short stay in Leipzig he was again professor of botany and natural history in Saint Petersburg in 1755. However, his deteriorating health forced him to return to Leipzig for good in 1761. In Leipzig he was together with Johann Abraham Heine (1723–1792) a doctor to Christian Fürchtegott Gellert .

Honors

The plant genus Hebenstretia L. from the fig family (Scrophulariaceae) was named after Hebenstreit .

Fonts (selection)

  • De salubri morborum per crises exitu ... , Leipzig 1748 - Dissertation under Samuel Theodor Quellmaltz
  • Sermo academicus de fertilitate terrarum industria colonorum augenda in conventu academiae publico d. VI. septembris 1756 ad celebranda solemnia nominis invectissimae ac potentissimae dominae Elisabetae Primae omnium Russiarum imperatricis et autocratoris dictus a d. Io. Christiano Hebenstreit, historical nature. et bot. pp St. Petersburg, 1756

proof

  • Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 , Volume V, 1805, p. 262f.
  • Christian Fürchtegott Gellert: Correspondence . 1991, p. 503. ISBN 3110098865
  • Umberto Quattrocchi: CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology . CRC Press Inc., 2000, p. 1172. ISBN 0849326761

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Johann Christian Hebenstreit. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed February 8, 2016 (in Russian).
  2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Lifting dispute, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1720
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinjena , today part of Naumburg
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1795
Place of death Leipzig