Karl Caesar Antz

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Karl Caesar Antz (* 1805 Zell an der Mosel ; † February 9, 1859 in Greifswald ) was a German doctor and botanist .

biography

He was the son of the attorney Heinrich Philipp Antz from Zell and his wife Maria Kreuter. He attended high schools in Koblenz and Trier and from Easter 1824 studied medicine in Bonn for three years . He then lived for three years on his father's property near Trier. In 1830 he was employed as a military doctor with the Guard Hussars in Potsdam . In 1834 he was transferred to Berlin in the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot , where he wrote his dissertation on tobacco ("Tabaci historia" 1836). From there he came to the 4th Guards Landwehr Regiment in Düsseldorf as a battalion doctor . Here, together with the court gardener RE Clemen, wrote a flora of Düsseldorf (published in 1846). As early as 1847, however, he was transferred to the hunter battalion “Fürst Bismarck” No. 2 in Greifswald, where he dealt with plants and especially mushrooms until his death.

He was married, but the marriage remained childless. He was considered closed and devoted more to botany than medicine.

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literature

  • Carl Jessen:  Antz, Karl Caesar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 499.
  • Official Journal of the Royal Government of Potsdam and the City of Berlin. No. 11, March 13, 1840, p. 75, digitized announcement of the license to practice medicine

Remarks

  1. ↑ ABD write here Garde Regiment what is probably meant is the Garde Landwehr Regiment , see: Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and Topography of the Government District of Düsseldorf. Volume 1, Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1836, p. 229, digitized
personal data
SURNAME Antz, Karl Caesar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Antz, Johann Kaspar Karl Caesar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Zell (Moselle)
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1859
Place of death Greifswald