Justus Schmidt

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Justus Schmidt (born September 29, 1851 in Hobstin ; † May 21, 1930 in Hamburg ) was a German teacher and florist .

Life

Justus Schmidt attended a primary school where his father, who taught there, taught him. From 1871 to 1874 he completed the teachers' college in Segeberg . He then worked until 1916 as a teacher at the school of the St. Johannis monastery .

Justus Schmidt died unmarried in Hamburg.

Act as a florist

While teaching, Schmidt conducted research on fauna in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. During numerous excursions he recognized peculiarities in plant cultivation and described new variations and forms. In his book Die Pteridophyten Schleswig-Holstein , which was published in Hamburg in 1910, Paul Junge named 62 new discoveries by Schmidts. Junge repeatedly named new forms after Schmidt, including Carex justischmidtii . Schmidt's name can be found in all the more important German and Dutch literature on flora.

In 1901 he founded the Botanical Association of Hamburg, which he helped to gain reputation as chairman.

As a researcher, Schmidt had a large herbarium . In order to be able to research further into German inflation , he sold it to the Altona Museum . It became part of the Hamburgense Herbarium.

Schmidt's botanical author's abbreviation is " JJHSchmidt ".

literature

  • Willi Christiansen : Schmidt, Justus . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, p. 240

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ HH Poppendieck: A botanical Odyssey: the evacuation of the Hamburg Herbarium 1943–1990. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  2. ^ Schmidt, Justus JH (1851–1930) in the International Plant Names Index , accessed on September 4, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Justus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and florist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Hobstin
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1930
Place of death Hamburg