Johann Wilhelm Peter Hübener

Johann Wilhelm Peter Hübener , also Huebener , (born February 21, 1807 in Billwärder , † February 15, 1847 in Altona ) was a German botanist. Its botanical author's abbreviation is " Huebener ".

Life

Johann Wilhelm Peter Hübener had a father who showed a great interest in plants and was in close contact with Johannes Flüggé . In 1846, Hübener noted: "For all botanists and amateurs who lived in Hamburg at the time, their father's house was a meeting place."

Hübener went to the learned school of the Johanneum , where he presumably received lessons from a teacher named Lehmann. During this time from 1817 to 1830 he took walks with the botany of the region. After attending school, he studied philosophy and science and received his doctorate. He then worked as a private scholar and apparently lived in Mannheim for a longer period of time .

When Hübener was 20 years old, his teacher Lehmann made contact with Johann Gottlob von Kurr . Hübener and von Kurr went on a collecting trip to Norway in 1828. Hübener was supposed to study higher plants , mosses , lichens and algae there. On the trip, which was originally supposed to lead to Lapland , she was accompanied for some time from Hamburg to Copenhagen and around Oslo by Wilhelm von Rapp from Tübingen . The journey finally ended at Dovrefjell .

In addition, Hübener only traveled through Central Europe. He visited the Vosges, Schwetzingen, the Palatinate, the Eifel, the Taunus, the Odenwald, the Harz, Bonn, the Lower Rhine, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. He later moved back to Altona. According to the Botanische Zeitung , he died here of consumption.

Scientific work

The Riccia huebeneriana named after Hübener .

During the expedition with von Kurr for the Esslingen Botanical Travel Association, for example, Hübener found Mnium hymenophylloides in Dovrefjell . The biologists collected plants and 6,000 to 8,000 samples of mosses during their trip. There they found a total of 30,000 specimens of plants, half of which were phanerogams and half cryptogams . Other sources report 24,000 copies.

In 1834, Hübener wrote the Hepaticologia Germanica, or description of the German liverworts. In his dedication to the Danish king, he referred to him as "the sublime protector of science and the arts". The liverworts described by Hübener include Jungermannia kunzeana, Jungermannia ustulata, Jungermannia flaccida (= obbovata), Jungermannia catenulata (= Cephalozia catenulata ). The star liver moss Riccia huebeneriana is named after himself , as described by Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg .

After his return to Altona, Hübener described the flora of the Hamburg area in 1846 . In the foreword of this work on phanerogams he wrote that he would create an expanded cryptogam flora, which he could not finish before the end of his life.

Hübener exchanged ideas with the Bavarian Botanical Society in Regensburg , the Association for Natural History in the Duchy of Nassau and the Rhenish Research Society in Mainz . The Mannheimer Verein für Naturkunde made him an honorary member.

Hubener's original Heribar no longer exists today, but there are duplicates.

Works

Opinions from professionals

Wilhelm Philipp Schimper judged Hubener badly in his Bryologia europaea and accused him of having worked superficially. In the Bryologia he did not mention Hubener's findings. With the exception of Phascum rectum , Hubener's descriptions have been confirmed by other scientists. The botanist Karl Müller , on the other hand, described Hübener as an excellent specialist in liverworts . The botanist and teacher Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff judged: "... has ... made himself known as an experienced species expert, while his superficial textbooks brought little fame and are better left over with silence."

literature

Jan-Peter Frahm , Jens Eggers: Hübener, Johann Wilhelm Peter . In: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists . Volume 1, BoD Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 978-3831109869 , p. 212. First edition published in 1995 as no. 6 of LIMPRICHTIA, magazine for moss research in Central Europe .
Arno Wörz: The Esslingen Botanical Travel Association 1825-1845. A stock corporation for the implementation of natural history collecting trips , series: Stuttgart contributions to the history of science and technology , Vol. 9, Logos Verlag Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-8325-4211-5 , p. 56 ff.
Hans Schröder : Hübener (Johann Wilhelm Peter) in: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . Volume 3. Hamburg 1857, p. 410. Entry no. 1734.

References and comments

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Jan-Peter Frahm , Jens Eggers: Hübener, Johann Wilhelm Peter . In: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists.
↑ The literature does not mention the first name, possibly it was Johann Georg Christian Lehmann , who in 1818 became professor of physics and natural history at the Academic Gymnasium Hamburg .
↑ Arno Wörz: The Esslingen Botanical Travel Association 1825-1845. P. 57.
^ Flora or general botanical newspaper. XXX. Vol., 1847, p. 280.
↑ Arno Wörz: The Esslingen Botanical Travel Association 1825-1845. P.56.
↑ The "Botanische Reiseverein Esslingen" or "Esslinger Reiseverein" is listed in the historical literature under " Württembergischer Naturhistorischer Reiseverein ". The purpose of this association was to finance the collectors' trips by selling the collected botanicals.
^ Johann Em. Wikström: Annual report of the Swedish Academy of Sciences on the progress of botany in 1828. Max & Co, Breslau 1835, p. 122 (translation by Carl Traugott Beilschmied ), digitized .
↑ Arno Wörz: The Esslinger Botanical Travel Association 1825-1845 , p. 62.
^ Hans Schröder: Lexicon of the Hamburg writers to the present.
^ Directory of honorary members . In: Second annual report of the Mannheim Association for Natural History . 1835, p. 29 (spelling: Hübner), digitized . Hübener can no longer be found in the list of honorary members of the (eighth) annual report 1841 and the following.
^ Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff: Textbook of Botany , 2nd Vol. 2nd Part, General Botany, Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1839, p. 627, digitized .

Web links

Huebener, Johann Wilhelm Peter . Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden (with list of described moss species). Retrieved December 5, 2017

personal data
SURNAME	Hübener, Johann Wilhelm Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Huebener (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 21, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH	Billwärder
DATE OF DEATH	February 15, 1847
Place of death	Altona

[Byrologen-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Jan-Peter Frahm , Jens Eggers: Hübener, Johann Wilhelm Peter . In: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists.

[2] The literature does not mention the first name, possibly it was Johann Georg Christian Lehmann , who in 1818 became professor of physics and natural history at the Academic Gymnasium Hamburg .

[Reiseverein-3] Arno Wörz: The Esslingen Botanical Travel Association 1825-1845. P. 57.

[4] Flora or general botanical newspaper. XXX. Vol., 1847, p. 280.

[5] Arno Wörz: The Esslingen Botanical Travel Association 1825-1845. P.56.

[6] The "Botanische Reiseverein Esslingen" or "Esslinger Reiseverein" is listed in the historical literature under " Württembergischer Naturhistorischer Reiseverein ". The purpose of this association was to finance the collectors' trips by selling the collected botanicals.

[7] Johann Em. Wikström: Annual report of the Swedish Academy of Sciences on the progress of botany in 1828. Max & Co, Breslau 1835, p. 122 (translation by Carl Traugott Beilschmied ), digitized .

[Reiseverein_2-8] Arno Wörz: The Esslinger Botanical Travel Association 1825-1845 , p. 62.

[9] Hans Schröder: Lexicon of the Hamburg writers to the present.

[10] Directory of honorary members . In: Second annual report of the Mannheim Association for Natural History . 1835, p. 29 (spelling: Hübner), digitized . Hübener can no longer be found in the list of honorary members of the (eighth) annual report 1841 and the following.

[11] Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff: Textbook of Botany , 2nd Vol. 2nd Part, General Botany, Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 1839, p. 627, digitized .