Joseph Bernhard Jack

Joseph Bernhard Jack (born March 22, 1818 in Salem , Grand Duchy of Baden , † August 14, 1901 in Constance ) was a German pharmacist and botanist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " JBJack ".

Life

After attending elementary school and learning Latin and Greek, he began his apprenticeship in 1833 in F. Baur's pharmacy in Salem. He completed this in 1837. He then conditioned in Donaueschingen , Lenzburg and Geneva . From Geneva he made a trip to Paris in 1841 to study pharmacy in Freiburg . In 1842 he passed the state examination.

From 1845 Jack leased the farm pharmacy in Salem, which he ran for two years. Then he moved to Constance and devoted himself entirely to botanical studies. Jack went on botanical excursions every year for a long time, especially to Switzerland, and was one of the first to know about European liverworts . He was involved in many editions of various Exsiccaten works and authored critical studies of Hepatica species. The large liverwort herbarium that he had set up became the property of the Boissier Herbarium .

Honors

In 1877 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . From the University of Freiburg he was awarded a Dr. hc and Viktor Ferdinand Schiffner named the liverwort genus Jackiella after him in 1900 .

Fonts

Baden's liverworts. In: Reports of the Natural Research Society of Freiburg i. Br. Vol. 5, No. 3/4, 1870, ISSN 0028-0917 , pp. 1-92 .
Botanical hikes on Lake Constance and in Hegau. In: Communications from the Baden Botanical Association. No. 91/92, 1891, ZDB -ID 242770-9 , pp. 341-356 ; No. 94/95, 1892, pp. 365-380 ; No. 96/97, 1892, pp. 381-396 ; No. 98, 1892, pp. 397-404 ; Attachment. No. 103, 1893, pp. 25-28 ; Addendum. No. 141, 1896, pp. 363-366 .
Contributions to the knowledge of the Pellia species. In: Flora or general botanical newspaper. Volume 81 = supplementary volume. for year 1895, issue 1, 1895, ISSN 0367-1615 , pp. 1–16 .
Liverworts of Tyrol. In: Negotiations of the Imperial-Royal Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna. Vol. 48, 1898, ISSN 0084-5647 , pp. 173-191 .
Flora of the Baden district of Constance. Reiff, Karlsruhe 1900.

literature

Wolfgang-Hagen Hein , Holm-Dietmar Schwarz: German pharmacist biography . Volume 1. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-8047-0518-9 , p. 301.

Web links

Jack, Joseph Bernhard. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden (with list of moss names described). Retrieved April 5, 2016
Jack, Joseph Bernard (Josef Bernhard) (1818–1901). Short biography at JSTOR Global Plants, accessed April 5, 2016

Individual evidence

^ Jack, Joseph Bernard (Josef Bernhard) (1818–1901) in the International Plant Names Index , accessed April 5, 2016
↑ Member entry of Joseph Bernard Jack at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 6, 2016.
↑ 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 .

personal data
SURNAME	Jack, Joseph Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jack, Joseph Bernard; Jack, Josef Bernhard; JBJack (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pharmacist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 22, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH	Salem
DATE OF DEATH	August 14, 1901
Place of death	Constancy

[IPNI-1] Jack, Joseph Bernard (Josef Bernhard) (1818–1901) in the International Plant Names Index , accessed April 5, 2016

[2] Member entry of Joseph Bernard Jack at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 6, 2016.

[Burkhardt_2018-3] 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 .