Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth , also Karl , (born March 13, 1792 in Breitenstein im Harz, † March 22, 1857 in Nordhausen ) was a German doctor, botanist and mycologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Wallr. "

Memorial plaque on the house where Wallroth died in Nordhausen

Life

Born in the rectory of Breitenstein in the Harz Mountains, he spent his childhood and youth here and in Breitungen . Initially taught by his father at home, he then attended the convent school in Roßleben from 1805 . Wallroth studied medicine in Halle (Saale) from 1810 , but also attends botanical lectures. He obtained his doctorate in medicine and surgery in Göttingen in 1815 . Wallroth opened a doctor's practice in Heringen / Helme in 1816 and was appointed official and city physician in 1817 . From 1822 he was a district physician in Nordhausen and finally settled here in 1825. In 1823 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . In 1855 Hofrat Wallroth retired and died two years later.

Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth wrote under the abbreviation Wallr. for the 4th edition of Meyers Konversations-Lexikon .

Honors

After him, the genus Wallrothia is Spreng. named from the umbelliferae family (Apiaceae).

literature

Thilo Irmisch : In memory of C. Fr. W. Wallroth. A biographical sketch. In Botanische Zeitung 15. Jg., 1857, columns 545-555 .
Kützing : Dr. Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth. In Bonplandia. Journal for the whole botany. Vol. 5, 1857, pp. 147f.
Louis Osswald: From the life of Wallroth. In communications from the Thuringian Botanical Association. Volume 9, 1896, pp. 14-27.
Jürgen Pusch, Klaus-Jörg Barthel, Wolfgang Heinrich (collaboration: Peter Rode, Werner Westhus, Harmut Baade): The botanists of Thuringia. (Haussknechtia, supplement 18.) [Jena 2015], p. 574f. (Wallroth, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm ; with illustrations).
Ernst Wunschmann: Wallroth, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 40, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 766-768.

Individual evidence

↑ Wallroth used the full name (sometimes abbreviated) only in his early years (as in History of Fruit, etc. title page ); thereafter in an official position always "Friedrich Wilhelm W." (also Latinized and / or abbreviated); in a more personal function simply "Friedrich W.". See e.g. B. Rosae plantarum generis etc. Title page and S. XII . He liked to sign letters “FWallroth” or “Fwallroth” (cf. Pusch, Barthel and Heinrich p. 575). (Many German libraries use a "Karl Friedrich Wilhelm W." construct as a standard entry.)
↑ JDF Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 256 digitized
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth - Sources and full texts

Author entry and list of the plant names described for Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth at the IPNI
Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth (1792–1857) Nordhausen's most important botanist
restored stele in honor of Wallroth in Nordhausen

personal data
SURNAME	Wallroth, Friedrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wallroth, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm (full name); Wallroth, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor, botanist and mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 13, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH	Breitenstein in the Harz Mountains
DATE OF DEATH	March 22, 1857
Place of death	Nordhausen

[1] Wallroth used the full name (sometimes abbreviated) only in his early years (as in History of Fruit, etc. title page ); thereafter in an official position always "Friedrich Wilhelm W." (also Latinized and / or abbreviated); in a more personal function simply "Friedrich W.". See e.g. B. Rosae plantarum generis etc. Title page and S. XII . He liked to sign letters “FWallroth” or “Fwallroth” (cf. Pusch, Barthel and Heinrich p. 575). (Many German libraries use a "Karl Friedrich Wilhelm W." construct as a standard entry.)

[2] JDF Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 256 digitized

[Burkhardt_2018-3] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .