Johannes Leunis

Joseph Leunis

Johannes Matthias Joseph Leunis (born June 2, 1802 in Mahlerten ; † April 30, 1873 in Hildesheim ) was a Hildesheim clergyman , teacher and botanist . He was the co-founder of the Roemer Museum Hildesheim (today Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim ). Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Leunis ".

Life

Johannes Leunis was enrolled in the lowest class (infima) of the Josephinum grammar school in the autumn of 1815 at the age of 13 . After completing the “ grammatical ” and “ rhetorical ” classes, he devoted himself to studying philosophy from October 1820 and from October 1822 to theology . A year later he was accepted into the "Seminarium episcopale".

He began teaching in 1824 at the Josephinum as a professor and class teacher in the lowest grammatical class. In the first year he taught natural history . The year 1826 was marked by the final examination at the seminary (February) and the ordination in Paderborn . After the reorganization of the Josephinum in 1830, Leunis became a subject teacher for history , geography and natural history. On June 27, 1844, he was elected cathedral vicar .

Johannes Matthias Joseph Leunis died on April 30, 1873 of complications from a stroke.

Works

• Synopsis of the three natural kingdoms , ( zoology 1847, botany 1847, mineralogy . ..)
• School natural history: an analytical representation of the three natural kingdoms , Hanover 1851 in the Google book search
• Synopsis of the natural history of the animal kingdoms , 2nd edition, Hanover 1860 in the Google book search
• School natural history, an analytical representation of the three natural kingdoms, for the self-determination of the natural bodies of Germany , 12th ed. by AB Frank, Hannover / Leipzig 1900

Awards and memberships

• Honorary member of the "Agriculture and Forestry Association of Hildesheim" (1853).
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Göttingen : "Doctor philosophiae et artium liberalium magistrum honoris causa" (1855).
• Member of the " Kaiserlich Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Akademie der Naturforscher " (2nd April 1861 ( matriculation no. 1958 ); Cognomen: "Blumenbach").
• Bearer of the Guelph Order in 1865 .

Street sign "Leunisstr" Hildesheim

literature

• Karl Mägdefrau :  Leunis, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 376 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 194 ( archive.org ).
• Ernst Wunschmann:  Leunis, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 493-495.

Web links

• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Johannes Leunis at the IPNI
• Member Post by John Leunis at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on 28 July 2017th