Karl Lauterbach (biologist)

Karl Lauterbach (born April 21, 1864 in Breslau ; † September 1, 1937 in the Wroclaw district of Stabelwitz ; full name Karl Adolf Georg Lauterbach , also Carl ) worked as a biologist and geographer in the exploration of German New Guinea . Its botanical author's abbreviation is “ Lauterb. "

biography

Lauterbach studied botany and agriculture in Breslau and Heidelberg , where he also received his doctorate in 1888. He had been married since 1892.

From 1889 to 1891 he made a world tour that took him to the USA, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia and Java. In March 1890 he was in New Guinea , in the German colony of Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land . On October 8th, he set out from Finschhafen on an expedition to the Astrolabebai . The expedition continued into the Gogol Valley (approx. 5 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 145 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E ). -5 145

Gut Stabelwitz around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

In 1895 he took over the management of his inherited property and acquired the Stabelwitz estate . The following year he was appointed to lead the Ramu expedition. He reached Friedrich-Wilhelm-Hafen on the Stettin on April 29, 1896. The expedition was soon canceled due to adverse circumstances. However, another exploration in the area of the Oertzen Mountains followed . It was found out that the Bismarck Mountains consist of crystalline rocks and gold deposits are likely.

Another expedition in 1899 led to the discovery of gold deposits and the rediscovery of the Ramu River, which Georg von Schleinitz had discovered three years earlier as the Ottilien River .

From 1898 to 1905 Lauterbach, who was also a captain in the Landwehr, was director of the New Guinea company in Berlin. He was given a professorship e. H. awarded. Together with Karl Moritz Schumann he wrote the work The Flora of the German Protected Areas in the South Seas (1900, supplements 1905).

From 1907 he devoted himself to the processing of his collections on his estate. Wolfgang Lauterbach was his son.

Honors

The plant genera Lauterbachia Perk. and Clarorivinia Pax et K. Hoffm . have been named in his honor. The specific epithet of the three-gang bowerbird ( Chlamydera lauterbachi ) also reminds of him.

literature

Martin Müllerott: Lauterbach, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 735 f. ( Digitized version ).
Lauterbach, Karl. In: Biographisches Handbuch Deutsch-Neuguinea. 2nd Edition. Fassberg 2002 (no ISBN), p. 218

Web links

Author entry and list of the described plant names for Karl Lauterbach (biologist) at the IPNI

Evidence, notes

↑ See Gogol River in Wikipedia.
^ ^A ^b Robert Zander : Zander hand dictionary of plant names. Edited by Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .
↑ Jan Albers in: Hans Dieter Beck (Ed.): Juristen in Portrait: Publishing house and authors in 4 decades. Festschrift for the 225th anniversary of the CH Beck publishing house . CH Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 978-3-406-33196-1 , p. 511 .
↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]

personal data
SURNAME	Lauterbach, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Biologist and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 21, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	September 1, 1937
Place of death	Stabelwitz ( Breslau )

[1] See Gogol River in Wikipedia.

[Zander13-2] A ^b Robert Zander : Zander hand dictionary of plant names. Edited by Fritz Encke , Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold . 13th, revised and expanded edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5 .

[3] Jan Albers in: Hans Dieter Beck (Ed.): Juristen in Portrait: Publishing house and authors in 4 decades. Festschrift for the 225th anniversary of the CH Beck publishing house . CH Beck, Munich 1988, ISBN 978-3-406-33196-1 , p. 511 .

[Burkhardt2018-4] Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]