Johann Christoph Röhling

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Johann Christoph Röhling (born April 27, 1757 in Gundershausen near Darmstadt , † December 19, 1813 in Massenheim ) was a German naturalist and Protestant pastor. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Röhl. “He also published under the pseudonym Johann Wilhelm Joseph Weißenbruch.

Life

He was the son of a poor linen weaver (who also went on a trip to Suriname ) and first learned his father's trade. He was also interested in nature research and found some patrons who enabled him to go to school in Darmstadt and, from 1778, to study in Gießen . After that he was a private tutor, a teacher at an orphanage in Frankfurt am Main . In 1792 he became pastor in Braubach , 1800 in Breckenheim and 1802 in Massenheim.

He is best known for his flora of Germany and published about bees.

He was the father of Franz Friedrich Röhling .

Honors

The plant genus Roehlingia Dennst is named after him . from the rose apple family (Dilleniaceae).

Fonts

  • Attempt a universal bee story . Volume 1, Eßlinger, Frankfurt 1790 (anonymous) ( online )
  • Treatise on beekeeping. 1795
  • History of moss in Germany. Volume 1, Wilmans, Bremen 1800. ( online )
  • Germany's flora, presented in tabular form for easy use, along with an explanatory introduction to the botanical art language, a paperback.
    • 1st edition, Bremen: Friedrich Wilmans, 1796 ( online )
    • 2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main: Friedrich Wilmans. First part: Instructions for the knowledge of the outer parts of the plants of Germany, 1812; Part two: Phanerogamic plants, 1812; Third part: Cryptogamic plants, 1813
    • 3rd edition, by Franz Karl Mertens and Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch : Röhling's Deutschlands Flora, edited according to a modified and expanded plan. Frankfurt am Main: Friedrich Wilmans. First volume 1823 ( online ); Second volume 1826 ( online ); Third Volume 1831 ( online ); Fourth Volume 1833 ( online ); Fifth Volume 1839 ( online )
  • Journey of a Martian to earth at the time of Leopold II's election and coronation as emperor. On Earth, 1791 (anonymous) ( online )
  • Sesostris, Pharaoh of Mizraim, a story of the primeval world. Wilmans, Bremen 1796. ( online volume 1 ), ( volume 2 ), ( volume 3 )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  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 .
personal data
SURNAME Röhling, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naturalist and Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Gundershausen near Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1813
Place of death Massenheim (Hochheim am Main)