Johann Wilhelm Weinmann

Portrait of Johann Wilhelm Weinmann by Johann Jacob Haid after Johann Leonhard Hirschmann , published in the work Phytanthoza iconographia

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (born March 13, 1683 in Gardelegen ; † 1741 ) was a German pharmacist and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ JWWeinm. "

Live and act

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann was born on March 13, 1683 in Gardelegen as the son of the hairdresser Matthias Christian Weinmann. He probably completed his training in Hamburg . In 1710 he settled in Regensburg and worked as a pharmacist's assistant. As early as 1712, he went into business for himself by buying the then bankrupt pharmacy "Zum schwarzen Mohren" .

Business flourished and he held various influential positions within the city administration over the years. Therefore he could turn to his passion, botany, and create his own little botanical garden. This is said to have comprised over 9,000 species in 1722 and provided the natural models for his four-volume work Phytanthoza iconographia , which was created from 1737 to 1745.

Honors

Carl von Linné probably named the plant genus Weinmannia from the Cunoniaceae family after him .

Fonts (selection)

Catalogus Alphabetico ordine exhibens Pharmaca… 1723.
Phytanthoza iconographia . 1737-1745 ( online ).
In the Breslau collections he published smaller works on aloe, water hemlock, coffee and tulip trees.

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Wilfrid Blunt : The Art of Botanical Illustration: An Illustrated History . Dover Publications, 1994, ISBN 0-486-27265-6 .
Robert F. Erickson: Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
Gordon Douglas Rowley : A History of Succulent Plants . Strawberry Press, 1997, ISBN 0-912647-16-0 .

Individual evidence

↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pharmacist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 13, 1683
PLACE OF BIRTH	Guards
DATE OF DEATH	1741

[Burkhardt_2018-1] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .