Johann Christoph Döll

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Johann Christoph Döll (born July 21, 1808 in Mannheim , † March 10, 1885 in Karlsruhe ) was a Baden , German botanist and librarian . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Döll ".

Life

Döll first attended the Lyceum in Mannheim and then studied natural sciences , theology and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg . His particular botanical interest was in the then new doctrine of leaf position by Karl Friedrich Schimper . In 1831 Döll was ordained a clergyman and was then initially employed as a private tutor. In 1832 he became a teacher at the Lyzeum Mannheim where he taught languages ​​and philosophical propaedeutics. In 1840 he became a teacher at the secondary school in Mannheim, where he taught botany and zoology . From 1843 to 1872 he was the chief librarian of the Grand Ducal Badische Hof- und Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe.

Work and writings

In 1843 the Rheinische Flora published by Döll appeared , in which the wild growing and cultivated plants of the Rhine area from Lake Constance to the Moselle and Lahn are described. From 1857 to 1862 the three-volume Flora of the Grand Duchy of Baden was published , which contains not only the phanerogams but also cryptogamous clans . For the Flora Brasiliensis , which was edited by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius , Döll edited most of the Gramineae .

Honors

In 1865 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

After him, the plant genera Doellochloa Kuntze from the sweet grass family (Poaceae) and Doellia Sch.Bip. named from the sunflower family (Asteraceae).

Publications (selection)

literature

  • Ernst Wunschmann:  Döll, Johann Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 740.
  • Paul Weinacht: Johann Christoph Döll as director of the Karlsruhe Library 1843–1872 . In: Otto Glauning on his 60th birthday . Leipzig 1938, Vol. 2, pp. 150–157.
  • Engelbert Strobel: Johann Christoph Döll. Court librarian and versatile scholar . In: Badische Heimat 49 (1949), pp. 199–201.
  • Paul Weinacht: Johann Christoph Döll as director of the Karlsruhe Library 1843–1872 . In: Otto Glauning for his 60th birthday: Festgabe aus Wissenschaft und Bibliothek / the publisher provided Heinrich Schreiber - Vol. 2. - Leipzig: Hadl, 1938. - pp. 150–157.
  • Johann Christof Döll . In: Badische Biographien 1 (1875), pp. 193f. ( Digitized version ) and 4 (1891), pp. 85–87 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Johann Christoph Doell at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 13, 2015.
  2. Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]