Johannes August Christian Röper

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Johannes Röper
Johannes Röper, official portrait of Elisabeth Strempel (1866)

Johannes August Christian Röper , actually: Johannes Röper , also Roeper (born April 25, 1801 in Doberan ; † March 17, 1885 in Rostock ) was a German physician , botanist and librarian . Its botanical author abbreviation is “ Roep. "

Life

Johannes Röper was a son of the theologian and Doberan pastor (Friedrich) Ludwig Röper (1768–1830) and his wife Charlotte Lucia, born. Buchholz (1769-1837). After his first lessons with his father, he attended the Katharineum in Lübeck in 1815/1816 and began studying natural sciences at the University of Rostock at the age of 16 . From October 1819 he studied for six semesters in Berlin, where he joined the botanist von Schlechtendal . From 1822 he studied another six semesters at the University of Göttingen . With the performed there on March 15, 1823 Promotion to Dr. med. he finished his studies. In the following year his first work appeared: "Enumeratio Euphorbiarum quae in Germania et Pannonia gignuntur". From 1824 he traveled to Western Europe for two years, staying in Paris for a long time. Here he was in contact with Alexander von Humboldt , Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu and Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck .

In September 1826 he was appointed associate professor of medicine at the University of Basel and was subsequently full professor of medicine from 1829 to 1836. On August 3, 1833 he became a member (matriculation no. 1377) of the Leopoldina with the nickname Lachenalius . In 1836 he was awarded a doctorate by the Basel Philosophical Faculty. phil. appointed hc.

In the same year he accepted the call to his home university in Rostock. Here he became a full professor of natural history and botany at the Philosophical Faculty as the successor to the late Heinrich Gustav Flörke . Initially he taught zoology in addition to botany. He was also director of the botanical garden and supervisor of the natural history museum.

In addition, Röper held other functions at the University of Rostock, for example he was administrator of the Professors Widows' Fund from 1838 to 1885 and held the position of chief librarian at the university library from 1846 to 1880 - after the death of the orientalist Ernst August Philipp Mahn (1818 -1845). During his tenure, Röper was rector of the university in 1842/43, 1843/44, 1862/63 and 1863/64 and dean of the philosophical faculty thirteen times between 1845 and 1870.

Röper received numerous recognitions, for example Adrien Henri Laurent de Jussieu dedicated the genus “Roepera” from the family of the zygophyllaceae to him . The plant genus Neoroepera Müll.Arg. from the family of milkweed plants (Euphorbiaceae) and Roeperocharis Rchb.f. from the orchid family (Orchidaceae) are named after him. He was an honorary or corresponding member of scientific organizations in France, Switzerland, England, Sweden and Germany. In 1873 he received honoris causa from the natural science faculty in Tübingen the honor of a "Doctor scientiarum naturalium". On the occasion of his 50th anniversary as a doctor, he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Wendish Crown on March 15, 1873 .

Röper was married to Elise, b. Saugy. His sister Julie Elisabeth was married to the Rostock physician Carl Strempel . On June 19, 1880, he suffered his first stroke, which forced him to give up some of his activities. But he was able to maintain his intellectual freshness and his lively scientific interest until his death shortly before the age of 84.

The Rostock University Archives keep two portraits of Johannes Röper in its portrait collection. a. an oil painting by Elisabeth Strempel - his niece - painted in 1866 .

plant

Röper's botanical writings during his time in Basel mainly deal with general questions about plant morphology . In Rostock he devoted himself mainly to the study of the native flora, especially the ferns and grasses. The basis of his research was always the method of comparative morphological observation, which was particularly represented by his friend Alexander Braun . Röper owned a private herbaric collection , which he had already supplemented during his stay in Paris by purchasing the Lamarck collection . This collection - "which contains parts of essential European and non-European collections of the 19th century" - together with the "Herbarium Vivum Florae Megapolitanae" by Georg Gustav Detharding, formed the basis of the Rostock university herbarium "Herbarium Rostochiense (ROST)", which currently has around 85,000 Includes supporting documents.

Honors

  • 1836: Dr. phil. hc, University of Basel
  • 1873: Doctor scientiarum naturalium hc, University of Tübingen

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author entry and list of the plant names described for Johannes August Christian Röper at the IPNI
  2. ↑ Enrollment in the Rostock matriculation portal : Rectorate year 1816/1817, No. 38,
  3. ^ Member entry of Johann August Roeper at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 30, 2017.
  4. ^ History of the Botanical Garden - University of Rostock
  5. ↑ 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 .
  6. ^ Honorary members , Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft In: Journal für Ornithologie , No. 90, 1942, p. 329 (PDF).
  7. ^ Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War. Addendum 1933, self-published, Wismar 1933, p. 30 ( digitized RosDok )
  8. ^ Entry on Johannes August Christian Röper in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
  9. ↑ See literature: ADB
  10. ↑ Herbarium Rostochiense (ROST)
personal data
SURNAME Röper, Johannes August Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Röper, Johannes; Roeper, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, botanist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Doberan
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1885
Place of death Rostock