Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (botanist)

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Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (born June 9, 1805 in Wittenberg , † November 5, 1860 in Berlin ) was a German botanist , pharmacist and doctor . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Klotzsch ".

Life

After Klotzsch had attended school in his hometown and had private lessons, he began an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Düben at the age of 14 . To continue his pharmacological and botanical studies, he went to Berlin and worked from 1830 to 1832 at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew . Here he was entrusted by William Jackson Hooker with the supervision of his herbarium and could learn a lot from it. In 1832 he went to Berlin, engaged in medical studies and in 1834 was appointed to the Royal Herbarium as assistant to the director at the time.

During this time he especially classified and determined mushrooms. From trips to Saxony, Bohemia, Austria , Styria and Hungary, he brought plants with him and enriched the collection. Having a doctorate doctorate was, he moved in 1838 as curator of the Botanical Museum Berlin and thus as head of the same after. In 1841 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina , in 1851 he became a full member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences and a few weeks before his death on September 13, 1860, titular professor.

Numerous essays and monographs on various plants and plant families come from him. He was active in applied botany. He has also edited other works, continued them and supported various authors with articles in books. During his time, Klotzsch played a key role in the further development of the Botanical Museum Berlin.

Honors

After him, the genus Klotzschia Cham became. & Schltdl. named from the umbelliferae family (Apiaceae).

Works (selection)

  • Mycological corrections to the bequeathed Sowerby collection, as well as to the few mushrooms in the Linnaeus herbarium, together with a list of a foreign genera and species. In: Linnaea . No. 7, 1832, pp. 193-203. ( Digitized version )
  • Herbarium vivum mycologicum sistens fungorum per totam Germaniam crescentium collectionem perfectam . Berolini, 1832.
  • Friedrich Guimpel (ed.), Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (text): Plant illustrations and descriptions for the knowledge of officinal plants . A. Hayn, Berlin 1838–1839.
  • with August Garcke: The botanical results of Prince Waldemar's journey to Prussia in 1845 and 1846 . Publishing house of the Royal Secret Upper Hofbuchdruckerei, Berlin 1862. ( full text in Google book search)
  • Begoniace genera and species . Treatises of the Royal. Academy of Sciences, Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1855. ( full text in the Google book search)
  • About Pistia. Print: Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1852. ( full text in the google book search)
  • Plant bastards and hybrids, as well as their use. Print: Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1854.
  • Philipp Schönlein's botanical estate on Cap Palmas . Treatises of the Royal. Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1857. ( full text in the google book search)
  • About the origin of the commercially available Rothen cinchona . Printed in the Königl. Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 1858. ( full text in Google book search)
  • The Aristolochiaceen of the Berlin Herbarium . Printed in the Königl. Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1859.
  • Linnaeus' natural plant class Tricoccae of the Berlin Herbarium in general and the natural order Euphorbiaceae in particular. Printed in the printing house of the Königl. Academy of Sciences, 1860.
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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Klotzsch, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klotzsch, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist, pharmacist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenberg
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1860
Place of death Berlin