Johann Simon von Kerner

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Johann Simon Kerner , from 1812 von Kerner , (born February 25, 1755 in Kirchheim unter Teck , Baden-Württemberg, † June 13, 1830 in Stuttgart ) was a German doctor and botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " J.Kern. "

Live and act

Johann Simon von Kerner was the son of a manorial gardener. As early as 1770 when it was founded, he came to the Hohe Karlsschule as a gardener , the university founded by Duke Carl Eugen von Württemberg at Solitude Palace near Stuttgart. As early as 1780 he became a teacher of botany and plant drawing there. In 1786 he was given the title of “Councilor of Württemberg and Zweibrücken”; in 1792 he became assessor of the economic faculty and in 1794 its dean. One of his most important students was the zoologist and paleontologist Georges Cuvier .

After the High Charles School was closed in 1794, Kerner became the overseer in the Duke's Botanical Garden. In 1812 he was honored with the award of the Knight's Cross of the Civil Order of Merit , which was associated with the personal nobility. Since then he has been allowed to call himself "von Kerner".

He is the editor of many illustrated works, the pictures of which are mostly drawn by himself. were engraved, including "Description and illustration of trees ...", 1783–1792; "Illustration of all economic plants", 1786–1796; "Germany's poisonous plants ...", 1798; "Genera plantarum selectarum specierum iconibus illustrata", 1811-1828; "Poisonous and edible sponges ...", 1786 and "Hortus semper virens, ...", 1795-1830. The focus of his work was the representation of the economically important plants. In 1786 he also wrote a “Flora Stuttgardiensis”, an early German local flora and the first for the Stuttgart area. This also includes mosses, lichens and fungi.

Honors

The genus Kernera Medicus ( ball pods ) in the cruciferous family (Brassicaceae, Tribus Kernereae) is named after Kerner .

Fonts

  • Natural history of the Coccus Bromelia or the pineapple shield: along with a suggestion based on experience for the complete extermination of this deadly insect, which is harmful to the pineapple plant, Stuttgart 1778
  • Description and illustration of the trees and bushes that grow wild in the Herzogthum Wirtemberg, Stuttgart 1783–1792
  • Poisonous and edible sponges, which grow wild in the Duchy of Wirtemberg as well as in the rest of Germany, Stuttgart 1786
  • Flora Stuttgardiensis. Or a directory of the plants growing wild around Stuttgart. Stuttgart 1786
  • Illustration of all economic plants, Stuttgart 1786–1796
  • Hortus semper virens, exhibens icones plantarum selectiorum quot quot ad vivorum exemplorum normam reddere licuit, Stuttgart 1795-1830
  • Representation of excellent foreign trees and bushes that endure outdoors in Germany, Tübingen 1796
  • Germany's poisonous plants, Hanover 1798
  • Les mélons, cont. 34 espèces. Stuttgart 1804
  • Genera plantarum selectarum specierum iconibus illustrata, 1811–1828
  • Le Raisin: ses espèces et variétés dessinées et colorées d'après nature, Stuttgart 1815

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Royal Württemberg Court and State Manual 1815, p. 39.
  2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

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personal data
SURNAME Kerner, Johann Simon von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES J. Kern. (botanical author abbreviation); Kerner Johann Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchheim unter Teck
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1830
Place of death Stuttgart