Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun (also: Friedrich Wilhelm Braun; Karl Friedr. Wilhelm Braun; Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun; CFW Braun; Baruthinus [pseud.]; F. Braun; Friedrich Braun; * December 1, 1800 in Bayreuth ; † July 20 1864 ibid) was a German pharmacist , botanist , geologist and paleontologist (more precisely: paleobotanist ). Its botanical author's abbreviation is " brown ".
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Braun's father was a pharmacist and medical assessor in Bayreuth. Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun apprenticed as a pharmacist in Regensburg, was a pharmacist's assistant in Salzburg from 1819 and then in Klagenfurt. At the same time he was in contact with important botanists and accompanied his father's friend David Heinrich Hoppe on a trip to the Alps (Salzburg and Carinthian Alps). His acquaintance with the amateur botanist and Austrian Colonel Ludwig von Welden enabled him to go on a botanical study trip to Northern Italy in 1821. He was also offered a career as an officer, which he had to turn down after his mother's death, as well as a planned participation in an expedition to Guyana, when he came into contact with botanists and explorers there in Prague in 1824 ( Kaspar Maria von Sternberg , Franz Wilhelm Sieber ) operated. At the father's request, however, he had to continue his pharmacy studies in Erfurt and passed the pharmacist examination with distinction in Munich in 1824. He then took over his father's pharmacy in Bayreuth, which he sold after seven years in order to devote himself entirely to botanical research.
He was a professor at the district agricultural and trade school in Bayreuth, founded in 1833, where he taught chemistry, natural history, physics and technology.
Braun was entrusted with the task of determining and arranging the treasures of minerals and fossils that were gradually being gathered in abundance in the district collections in Bayreuth and Ansbach . At that time, Ferdinand von Andrian-Werburg established a natural history collection for Upper Franconia, and in this context Braun increasingly turned to paleontology, working with the collector and paleontologist Georg zu Münster . In 1840 he published a catalog of the collection, which contained many fish and reptile fossils (such as placodontia ) of the shell limestone around Bayreuth, along with a geological map of Upper Franconia. But his special focus was paleobotany. He also made significant contributions to the determination of the fossils in the university collection in Erlangen , on which he spent two years. From this university he received in 1840 the "doctoral degree honoris causa ". From 1833 to 1845 he was a member of the Medical Committee of Upper Franconia, which he gave up due to overwork. In 1843 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy . In January 1849 he was accepted (serial number 14 of 170 members) into the German Geological Society , which was newly founded at the end of December 1848 . He was an external member of the natural research society in Bamberg.
He had special ties to Athens, to which, like other institutions, he donated their own collections after having worked on them scientifically. In 1849 he received a high order from the Greek king and was a corresponding member of the Natural History Society in Athens.
Fonts
- Directory of the fossils which are in the natural history district collection in Bayreuth. Bayreuth 1833
- Directory of the petrefacts in the district natural history collection in Bayreuth. Publishing house by Leopold Voss, Leipzig 1840
- Contributions to the prehistory of plants. 1st issue. As a program for the annual report of the Königl. District agricultural and trade school in Bayreuth, FC Birner, Bayreuth 1843
- Contributions to the prehistory of plants. World richia. A new fossil genus of fossil rhizantheen. Num. VI as a program for the annual report of the Royal. District agricultural and trade school in Bayreuth, Heinrich Höreth, Bayreuth 1849
- Contributions to the prehistory of plants. Kirchneria. A new fossil plant genus from the lower Liassandsteine in the Bayreuth area. Num. VII as a program for the annual report of the Royal District - Agriculture and Trade School in Bayreuth, Theodor Burger, Bayreuth 1854
- Wood petrified over the Bayreuth. 1859
- The animals in the slate of the Bayreuth region. 1860
- About Placodus gigas. Agassiz. and Placodus Andriani. Muenster. Theodor Burger, Bayreuth 1862
- About Placodus quinimolaris. Heinrich Höreth, Bayreuth 1863
- Directory of the petrefacts in the district natural history collection in Bayreuth. Reprint [of the edition] Voss, Leipzig 1840. [Bayreuth], Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, 2004. (Reports of the Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Bayreuth; Supplement [5]), Bayreuth 2004
literature
- Steffenhagen: Braun, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 269-271.
- Otto Popp, obituary in: Österreichische Botanische Zeitschrift, October 1864, Volume 14, Issue 10, pp. 313-320
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun at the IPNI
- therein: Dr. hc Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Braun - Bayreuth paleontologist
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal of the German Geological Society, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1849, p. 38
- ^ Members of the natural research society in Bamberg, status May 1860 In: Fifth report of the natural research society in Bamberg, Reindl, Bamberg 1861 p. IX archive
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Braun, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Braun, Friedrich Wilhelm; Braun, Karl Friedr. Wilhelm; Braun, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm; Braun, CFW; Baruthinus (pseudonym); Braun, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pharmacist, botanist, geologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1800 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bayreuth |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1864 |
| Place of death | Bayreuth |