Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini

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Grave of Joseph Zuccarini on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (born August 10, 1797 in Munich ; † February 18, 1848 there ) was a Bavarian , German botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Zucc. "

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Zuccarini, son of theater director Franz Anton Zuccarini and singer Catherine Zuccarini began after high school degree in 1813 at the Munich High School in 1815 to study medicine at the University of Erlangen , where Christian Nees von Esenbeck was his teacher in natural history. During his studies in Erlangen he became a member of the local Landsmannschaft , in 1817 a member of the Teutonia fraternity and in 1818 of the Arminia fraternity . In 1819 he returned to Munich and worked there in the botanical garden with Franz von Paula cabinet .

After 1820 Zuccarini began to systematically process the Brazilian plant collections of Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (especially the Cactaceae ) and the plants collected by Philipp Franz von Siebold in Japan . In 1823 he became adjunct at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and teacher of botany at the Royal Lyceum, and in 1824 he was given a teaching position at the medical and surgical college in Munich. In the same year he was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . His academic nickname was Vandelli . In 1826 he received a call as associate professor, in 1835 as full professor for agricultural botany and forest botany at the University of Munich . In 1836 he also became the second conservator at the Munich Botanical Garden. The Bavarian Academy of Sciences made him an extraordinary member in 1827, and in 1839 he became a full member of this learned society . From 1837 to 1844 Zuccarini was also a member of the Munich casual society .

Zuccarini's achievement also consists in his knowledge of the systematics and geographical distribution of plants, which he gained with his studies of plant species from the Alpine and foothills of the Alps.

The grave of Joseph Zuccarini is in the old southern cemetery in Munich (grave field 1 - row 1 - place 18).

Memberships and honors

Fonts (selection)

Title page of the Flora japonica by Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini and Philipp Franz von Siebold
  • Monograph of the American oxalis species . 1825.
  • Flora of the Munich area . 1829.
  • Characteristics of the German woody plants in the leafless state . 1823-1831. on-line
  • Plantarum novarum vel minus cognitarum, quae in horto botanico herbarioque regio Monacensi servantur .
    • Fasciculus primus . In: Treatises of the Mathematical-Physical Class of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Volume 1, Munich 1832, pp. 287-396, panels XII-XVII, (online) .
    • Secundus fasciculus . In: Treatises of the Mathematical-Physical Class of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Volume 2, Munich 1837, pp. 309-380, panels 1-9, (online) .
    • Tertius fasciculus. Cacteae . In: Treatises of the Mathematical-Physical Class of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Volume 2, Munich 1837, pp. 597-742, panels I-V, (online) .
    • Quartus fasciculus . In: Treatises of the Mathematical-Physical Class of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Volume 3, Munich 1843, pp. 219-254, panels 1-7, (online) .
    • Fasciculus Quintus . In: Treatises of the Mathematical-Physical Class of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Second division . Volume 4, Munich 1846, pp. 1-35, panels I-VI, (online) .
  • Florae Japoniae familiae naturales . 1843–1846 (together with Philipp Franz von Siebold ).
  • Flora Japonica . 1835–1870 (together with Philipp Franz von Siebold ).

Web links

Wikisource: Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. Adolf von Schaden (Ed.) Scholars Munich in 1834 , Munich, 1834, p. 153 .
  2. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 volumes, Munich 1970-1976 .; Volume 3, p. 239.
  3. Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 8, 30.
  4. JDF Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 257.
  5. Informal Society: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Informal Society Munich 1837-1987 , University printing and publishing house Dr. C. Wolf and Son KG, Munich 1987, 159 pages.
  6. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Joseph Gerhard von Zuccarini .
  7. 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 .