Carl Friedrich von Ledebour

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Carl Friedrich von Ledebour, botanist

Carl Friedrich Ledebour , from 1823 von Ledebour or Karl (Friedrich) von Ledebur (* July 8, 1786 in Stralsund , † July 4, 1851 in Munich ) was a German botanist , professor and Imperial Russian State Councilor . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Ledeb. "

family

Ledebour was the son of the Swedish military auditor Johann Ledebour († 1785). He does not belong to the Westphalian noble family von Ledebur . His mother was Anna Maria Hagemann , head of a girls' school in Barth since 1799 . In 1815 he married Elisabeth von Mirbach (1786–1863), the daughter of Starost von Gitany and heir of Krussen Georg Christoph von Mirbach and his wife Christine Emerentia von Nolde . The couple had no children and adopted a daughter.

Life

After studying law and natural history, Ledebour became professor of botany and head of the botanical garden at the University of Greifswald in 1805 . From 1811 to 1836 he was professor and director of the botanical garden in Dorpat (now Tartu in Estonia ), which he set up himself and brought it to European fame.

Ledebour's study trips took him to Russia , Siberia and Central Asia ; from there he brought back numerous hand-made color plates of the Russian flora . The exploration of the flora of the Russian Empire thanked him by Tsar Alexander I in 1823 when he was raised to the nobility . After his retirement in 1836, he first lived in Odessa , then went to Heidelberg and Munich, where he died in 1851.

Two portraits of the botanist are said to be in the Mailinger portrait collection of the city of Munich.

In his work Flora altaica Ledebour gives the first description of species such as the Asiatic wild apple ( Malus sieversii , which he still called Pyrus sieversii ) and the Siberian larch ( Larix sibirica ). Its flora rossica. served Benjamin Daydon Jackson as one of the basic works for the creation of the index Kewensis .

Honors

The plant genus Ledebouriella H. Wolff and the globe flower Trollius ledebourii are named after him.

Works

  • Travel through the Altai Mountains and the Soongorian Kyrgyz steppe. 2 volumes and atlas. Bln., Reimer 1829/1830.
  • Flora altaica , 1829-1834, the first description of the flora Altai ; 4 volumes.
  • Icones plantarum novarum vel imperfecte cognitarum floram rossicam, imprimis altaicam, illustrantes , 1829–1834; 5 volumes
  • Flora rossica; sive Enumeratio plantarum in totius imperii rossici europaeis, asiaticis et americanis hucusque observatarum. Stuttgart 1841–1853, 4 volumes; probably the first complete flora description of the Russian Empire .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Incorrectly in some biographies: Greifswald
  2. ^ Benjamin Dayton Jackson: The new 'Index of Plant-Names'. In: The Botanical Journal - British and Foreign. Vol. XXV. West, Newman & Co., London 1887, pp. 66-71
  3. ↑ Otto Gertz: Kungl. Fysiografiska sällskapet i Lund 1772-1940. Historisk överblick och personförteckningar . Lund 1940, p. 235.
  4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Karl Friedrich von Ledebour , members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
  5. ↑ http://www.bbaw.de/die-akademie/akademiegeschichte/verbindungen-historisch/alphabetische-sortierung?altträger_id=1582
  6. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Ledebour, Carl Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ledebur, Carl Friedrich von; Ledebur, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1851
Place of death Munich