Karl Gustav Wilhelm Stenzel

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Karl Gustav Wilhelm Stenzel (born November 21, 1826 in Breslau ; † March 30, 1905 there ) was a German botanist and teacher. His botanical author's abbreviation is " Stenzel ".

Life

Karl Gustav Wilhelm Stenzel was a son of the historian Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel and his wife Maria, née Bredow, the daughter of the Helmstadt historian Gabriel Gottfried Bredow . The pedagogue and writer Hedwig Haberkern (1837-1901), née Stenzel, text author of the children's song Snowflake, White Skirt , was his sister.

Karl Gustav Wilhelm Stenzel studied at the University of Breslau science and was at Henry Göppert in Wroclaw in 1850 with his dissertation De trunco Palmarum fossilium to Dr. phil. PhD .

He worked from 1854 to 1857 as a teacher of natural sciences at the higher middle and secondary school in Küstrin and later until 1891 as a senior teacher at the secondary school at the Zwinger in Breslau. Stenzel dealt with palaeontology and botany, focusing on the construction and growth of ferns and fossil palms.

On February 1, 1850, Karl Gustav Wilhelm Stenzel was registered under matriculation no. In 1605 elected a member of the Leopoldina in the Botany section with the academic surname Reichel II .

The fossil plant genus Stenzelia Göpp was named in his honor . Named in 1864.

Fonts

  • De trunco ​​Palmarum fossilium . Inaugural dissertation, Grass, Barth et Soc., Breslau 1850 ( digitized version )
  • Two contributions to the knowledge of the fossil palm trees . Novorum actorum Academiae Caesareae Leopoldinae-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum, 22, 1850, pp. 465–508, plates 51–53 ( digitized version )
  • About the star stones . Nova acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum, 24, 1854 ( digitized version )
  • Observations on streaked spruce cones. A contribution to the morphology of conifers . Dresden 1876 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Jan-Peter Frahm & Jens Eggers: Stenzel, (Karl) Gustav (Wilhelm) (1826–1905) . In: Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen , 2001, pp. 503–504 ( digitized version )
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 275 (archive.org)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Gustav Wilhelm Stenzel: Gustav Adolf Harald Stenzel's life. Perthes, Gotha 1897, p. 457
personal data
SURNAME Stenzel, Karl Gustav Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1905
Place of death Wroclaw