Johann Wilhelm Karl Moritz
Johann Wilhelm Karl Moritz (born July 21, 1797 in Klein-Santersleben ( Schackensleben ); † October 28, 1866 in Colonia Tovar , Venezuela ) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Moritz ".
Life
After completing his degree in theology, Moritz began studying natural sciences. In 1833 he traveled to the Antilles with the aim of collecting plants for botanical museums. There he met the later Venezuelan President José María Vargas Ponce, whom he accompanied to Venezuela in 1835. With the exception of a visit to Germany, he lived in the Tovar settlement , whose Protestant parish he also looked after as pastor, and devoted himself to researching the flora there , especially in the Cordilleras . In Tovar he created a botanical garden. He sent his plant collections to the Botanical Museum in Berlin, the British Museum, the Vienna Court Museum, the Leningrad Academy of Sciences and the Universities of Leipzig and Kiel.
Essays
- Carl Moritz: Vegetation of the primeval forests around the Colonia Tovar . Botanical Newspaper. Vol. 4, 1846.
literature
- Ernst Hampe: Johann Wilhelm Karl Moritz . 1847. A lecture on the Columbian Mosses (Una presentación a través del Colombiano Moose).
- Conrad Koch: Karl Moritz (1796–1866) . 1994. online
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Johann Wilhelm Karl Moritz at the IPNI
- Johann Wilhelm Karl Moritz in the Index of Botanists of Harvard University Herbaria
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moritz, Johann Wilhelm Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1797 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klein-Santersleben (Schackensleben) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1866 |
| Place of death | Colonia Tovar , Venezuela |