Johann Conrad Schauer
Johann Conrad Schauer (also Johannes Konrad Schauer , born February 16, 1813 in Frankfurt am Main , † October 24, 1848 in Eldena ) was a German botanist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Schauer ".
Life
After attending a grammar school in Mainz and a three-year training as a gardener in the royal court garden in Würzburg , thanks to the mediation of his teacher Anton Heller, he got an assistant position at the botanical garden in Bonn in 1831 . The second director Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck promoted him and got him a job with his brother Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck at the botanical garden in Breslau , where he became head gardener in 1832. Schauer studied at the University of Breslau and was awarded a doctorate in Erlangen in 1835. phil. PhD. In 1841 he became a private lecturer in Breslau and in 1844 associate professor of botany at the University of Greifswald and teacher of natural history at the agricultural academy in Eldena .
Schauer is the first to describe numerous botanical taxa. He first described the plant , which is located in Western Australia, Symphyomyrtus lehmannii Schauer , which is now assigned to Eucalyptus lehmannii ( Schauer ) Bentham . The director of the botanical garden in Hamburg, Johann Georg Christian Lehmann , examined numerous plants that Johann August Ludwig Preiss had collected in Western Australia and divided them into families.
He translated Alfred Moquin-Tandon's plant teratology and worked with Mathias Joseph Bluff , Carl Anton Fingerhuth and Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck on the second, increased edition of the first section of the "Compendium Florae Germaniae".
On November 30, 1840, he was elected member ( matriculation no. 1485 ) of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Miller .
Honors
The plant genus Schaueria Nees from the acanthus family (Acanthaceae) honors Johann Conrad Schauer and Sebastian Schauer .
Fonts
- with Mathias Joseph Bluff, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck and Carl Anton Fingerhuth: Compendium florae Germaniae. Sectio I., Plantae phanerogamicae seu vasculosae. Tomus I, Pars I, Schrag, Norimbergae 1836 digitized .
- with Mathias Joseph Bluff, Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck and Carl Anton Fingerhuth: Compendium florae Germaniae. Sectio I., Plantae phanerogamicae seu vasculosae. Tomus I, Pars II, Schrag, Norimbergae 1837 digitized .
Translations
- (from the French) Alfred Moquin-Tandon: Plant Teratology . Doctrine of the irregular growth and formation of plants. (At the same time Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (ed.): Handbook of Plant Phatology and Plant Teralogy , Volume II.) Haude and Spener, Berlin 1842 Digitized .
literature
- Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 268 (archive.org) .
- Ernst Wunschmann: Schauer, Johann Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 623 f.
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 .
Web links
- Member entry of Johann Conrad von Schauer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 19, 2018.
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Johann Conrad Schauer at the IPNI
- CERL Thesaurus Schauer, Johann Conrad (1813 - 1848)
- Plant of the Month - February 2008 Eucalyptus lehmannii (Schauer) Benth.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schauer, Johann Conrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schauer, Johannes Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1848 |
| Place of death | Eldena |