Joseph Liboschitz
Joseph Liboschitz , Russian Осип Яковлевич Либошиц , transcription Ossip Jakowlewitsch Liboschiz , (* 1783 in Wilna , Poland-Lithuania , † January 5, 1824 in Karlsruhe ) was a doctor and naturalist ( botanist , mycologist , zoologist ) from the then Russian Lithuania . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Libosch. "
Life
His father Jakob (1741–1827) was a resident doctor, court advisor and general staff doctor of the Lithuanian army. Liboschitz had Jewish roots but was baptized. Liboschitz studied from 1798 at the University of Wilna with a master's degree in 1806 and he received his doctorate in medicine and surgery at the University of Dorpat in 1806 (dissertation: De morbis primi paris nervorum 1806). After that he was a resident doctor in Vilnius and later in Saint Petersburg, where he became court doctor in 1812 and personal doctor of Tsar Alexander I in 1822 and was the founder of a children's hospital for poor people.
From him the first description of the native broomrape plants counted Rehmannia chinensis (now Rehmannia glutinosa), which is used in Chinese medicine. Liboschitz wrote a book on the flora around Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
Fonts (selection)
- with Carl Bernhard Trinius : Flore des environs de St.-Pétersbourg et de Moscou, Saint Petersburg: Pluchart 1811
- Enumeratio fungorum quos in nonnullis provinciis Imperii Ruthenici, Moscow 1817.
- with Friedrich Tiedemann , Nikolaus Michael Oppel : Natural history of the amphibians, issue 1, Krokodile, Heidelberg 1817 (only one issue appeared)
Web links
- Biography from Marta Fischer: Russian careers. Personal physicians in the 19th century. Aachen: Shaker 2010 (Relationes 4), 140–141, Saxon Academy of Sciences
- Author entry and list of the plant names described for Joseph Liboschitz at the IPNI
References and comments
- ↑ Also Libeschitz, Liboschütz, Libošic and other spellings
- ↑ after Marta Fischer, Russian careers. Personal physicians in the 19th century, Shaker 2010. According to this, Vienna, Wilna, Saint Petersburg (1832) are also given as places of death
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Liboschitz, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Либошиц, Осип Яковлевич (Russian); Liboschiz, Ossip Jakowlewitsch (transcription) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian doctor and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1783 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vilna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 1824 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |