Charles King
Charles König (* 1774 in Braunschweig as Karl Dietrich Eberhard König , † September 6, 1851 in London ) was a German-British naturalist. Its botanical author abbreviation is " KDKoenig ".
Life
Karl König began studying medicine in the summer semester of 1795 at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In the summer semester of 1797 he moved to the University of Erlangen, where he first became a Braunian and in the autumn of 1798 he joined the Erlangen Westfalen (1794-1809) . At the end of 1800 he went to England to organize the natural history collection of Queen Charlotte . After completing the work, he became the assistant to the Swedish botanist Jonas Carlsson Dryander (1748-1810), the librarian of Joseph Banks . In 1807 he succeeded George Shaw as assistant curator and in 1813 curator of the natural history department of the British Museum and later until his death of the departments of geology and mineralogy . In 1805 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . In 1831 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . He described numerous fossils in the British Museum in the work Icones fossilium sectiles .
Fonts
- Introduction to the study of cryptogamous growths.
- Annals of botany.
- FH's ( Friedrich Konrad Hornemann ) diary of his trip from Cairo to Murzuk (in the years 1797 and 1798) , 1802 (together with Hornemann)
- Tracts relative to botany
- Directions for collecting specimens of geology and mineralogy for the British Museum
- The annotated memoirs of the life and botanical travels of André Michaux
- The botanical guide through the Rhine Palatinate, or overview of all wild and overgrown phanerogamic plants that have been found in the Rhine Palatinate, with details of the prosody and etymology of their names, the locations and geographical distribution, together with a calendar of flowers and some rules about collecting, Drying and storing plants , 1841
literature
- Koenig, Karl Dietrich Eberhard . In: Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). ( Digitized on en.wikisource.org )
- Konig, Charles Dietrich Eberhard . In: Dictionary of National Biography . 1885-1900. ( Digitized on en.wikisource.org )
Web links
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Charles König at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Peter Hümmer : The family books of the Erlanger Westfalen Davidis . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, Vol. 46 (2001), p. 110
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Karl (Charles) Dietrich Eberhard König. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed September 6, 2015 (Russian).
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 136.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | King, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | König, Karl Dietrich Eberhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-British naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1774 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1851 |
| Place of death | London |