Johann Peter Apollonius Weltrich

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Johann Peter Apollonius Weltrich (born April 30, 1781 in Kulmbach ; † August 23, 1850 there ) was a German naturalist.

Life

Lookout tower on the Patersberg near Veitlahm

Weltrich was the royal rent agent in Kulmbach. He discovered the plant fossilization Weltrichia mirabilis named after him in Veitlahm's so-called plant warehouse , an Upper Franconian Rhaetian formation . The fossil is a male sporophyll circle from a Bennettitacee . A type copy is kept at the Swedish University of Uppsala. This specimen can be assigned to the tree ferns and is also called the miracle flower.

Weltrich initiated and financially supported the construction of the lookout tower on the Patersberg around six kilometers northwest of Kulmbach on the Frankenweg long-distance hiking trail .

Weltrich has been an honorary citizen of the city of Kulmbach since 1843 .

See also

literature

  • Julius Schuster: Weltrichia and the Bennettitales (Documenta Naturae / special volume; 36). Publishing house "documenta naturae", Munich 2005, ISBN 3-86544-536-5 (reprint of the Uppsala 1911 edition).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.barnick.de
  2. ↑ http://www.archive.org/stream/botanischejahrbc48engl/botanischejahrbc48engl_djvu.txt
  3. ↑ in it: observation tower on the Patersberg ("Mr. Weltrich, a great patron of Veitlahm, it is thanks to that the look-around-tower was built")
  4. ↑ http://www.kulmbach.de/xist4c/web/Kulmbach-Rathaus-Geschichte-Ehrenbuerger_id_804_.htm
personal data
SURNAME Weltrich, Johann Peter Apollonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historical and natural history researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Kulmbach
DATE OF DEATH 23 August 1850
Place of death Kulmbach