Johann Friedrich Anton Dehne

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Johann Friedrich Anton Dehne (born December 13, 1787 in Schöningen ; † April 10, 1856 in Niederlößnitz ; also Anton Dehne ) was a German pharmacist and naturalist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Dehne ".

Live and act

Dehne, who grew up as the son of a doctor in Schöningen near Braunschweig , completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Hamburg from 1802 . In 1808 and 1809 he studied physics, chemistry, mineralogy and botany at the University of Helmstedt . After a wandering through southern Germany and provided with excellent references, he took over the city pharmacy in Merseburg , where he also gave scientific lectures as a part-time job.

After 1817 in Leipzig for Dr. phil. doctorate , Dehne bought a pharmacy in Penig in 1819 . In the same year, Dehne published his only book that gives a report on a trip to the Harz, which, in contrast to Heinrich Heine's trip to the Harz , which appeared five years later, focuses on the botanical and mineralogical peculiarities of the Harz .

In Penig, in addition to his pharmacy work, he devoted himself to scientific issues. In addition, Dehne was "soon known as a popular figure because of his amiable eccentricity [...]." At the age of around 50, he gave up his profession as a pharmacist in Penig.

Grundhof, lithograph around 1830

In 1837, Dehne acquired the Grundhof with a 7.2 hectare vineyard in Niederlößnitz for 9,000 thalers in order to devote himself to his natural history research and collecting activities. As an entomologist and botanist, he collected, birds and small mammals came from America, and dealt with fossils. Dehne, who was a member of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig , published countless specialist articles about his findings.

In 1840 the natural scientist Dehne discovered a previously unknown parasitic fungus, which he gave to his friend and colleague Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst for identification. This gave the mushroom , which comes from the genus of the real muglings (family of the mugling relatives ), the name Peziza dehnii, named after Dehne .

In 1841 Dehne described the animal genus Micromys , the only representative of which is the harvest mouse ( Micromys minutus ). Dehne himself believed to have discovered another representative of this genus in the Loessnitz , the Micromys agilis Dehne . Today's research puts this and other supposed initial descriptions of Dehnes into perspective.

After he had laid out large greenhouse areas with partly exotic plants on his property in addition to an English landscape park , he was happy to present his collections to the public. The Saxon King Friedrich August II was a guest at the Grundhof several times.

Even with his neighbors, Dehne was a small and sickly person, but sociable, modest and characterized by a love of nature, popular and respected. As early as 1839 when the rural community Niederlößnitz was founded, Dehne was elected first community elder by an absolute majority .

Dehne left two sons, the economist Heinrich Ludwig Dehne (1820–1868) and the metallurgical engineer Carl Anton Bernhard Dehne (* 1824), who returned to Lößnitz in 1874/75 after a long stay abroad.

No gravestone has survived from Anton Dehne, but a weathered gravestone in the Kötzschenbrodaer Friedhof ( old cemetery or Radebeul-West cemetery ) reminds of his son Carl Anton Bernhard .

Fonts

  • List of those reptiles that Dr. Found Rabenhorst in 1847 and kindly left it to me . In: Allgemeine deutsche Naturhistorische Zeitung (magazine volume NF2.1856 + literary sheet 1856). ( Online version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Andert: Anton Dehne, the mouse doctor from the Grundhof. (PDF; 534 kB) Part 34. In: Kötzschenbrodaer stories. Retrieved December 27, 2010 (11/12/2008).
  2. ↑ Writings of the Natural Research Society in Leipzig , 1822, p. 6.
  3. ^ Adolf Schruth ; Manfred Richter (arrangement): Chronicle Niederlößnitz . Radebeul, S. 15 ( ndlz.keepfree.de [PDF; 427 kB ] 1930; 2010).
personal data
SURNAME Dehne, Johann Friedrich Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stretch, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist and natural scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Schöningen
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1856
Place of death Niederloessnitz