Karl Picard

Karl Picard , also Carl, (born March 10, 1845 in Schlotheim , † May 31, 1913 in Sondershausen ) was a German paleontologist , botanist, geologist, mineralogist , teacher and rector of the community school in Sondershausen. Its official botanical author abbreviation is K.Picard .

Life

Ammonites of the genus Balatonites, 1896.

After attending school in Sondershausen and training as a teacher, Picard became a teacher in Badra in 1866 . Transferred to Sondershausen in 1881, he quickly became a very active member of several natural history-oriented associations. At the end of 1881 he was appointed a full member of the Princely Antiquities Association of Sondershausen. From 1889 he was a member of the association for the promotion of agriculture in Sondershausen, from May 1892 as secretary on the board. Publications also emerged from these activities.

Mostly, however, he dealt with fossils of the shell limestone in Thuringia ( Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , Rudolstadt ) and also with palaeobotany . His collection is kept in the Sondershausen Castle Museum.

Some initial descriptions come from him , including the sea lily Holocrinus beyrichi ( Picard , 1883) and the cephalopods Balatonites sondershusanus and Balatonites spinosus , two ammonites . He also dealt with orchids , but the species Ophrys ambusta K. Picard described by him turned out to be a local form of the fly ragwort ( Ophrys insectifera L. syn. Muscifera Huds. ).

He received the gold medal for art and science.

Karl Picard was with Dorothee geb. Werner married. The geologist Edmund Picard was a son.

He is not to be confused with the chief geology director at the geological state office of Schleswig-Holstein Karl Picard (1916–1984).

Fonts

About a new type of crinoid from the shell limestone of the Hainleite near Sondershausen. In: Journal of the German Geological Society. Vol. 35, 1883, pp. 199-202, Plate IX.
About Ophiuren from the Upper Muschelkalk near Schlotheim in Thuringia. In: Journal of the German Geological Society. Vol. 38, 1886, pp. 876-882, Plate XXVIII.
About two interesting fossils from the lower shell limestone of Sondershausen. In: Journal of Natural Sciences. Vol. 60, 1887, pp. 72-79.
About some rarer petrefacts from shell limestone. In: Journal of the German Geological Society. Vol. 41, 1889, pp. 635-640, panel XXVI.
About the geognostic conditions of the subordinate rule of the principality Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Sondershausen: Eupel 1890. (43 pages. Separate print from: Negotiations of the Association for the Promotion of Agriculture in Sondershausen. Vol. 51, 1890.)
About Balatonites sondershusanus n. Sp. In: Journal of the German Geological Society. Vol. 44, 1892, pp. 483-487, panel XXIV.
About cephalopods from the lower Muschelkalk near Sondershausen. In: Journal of the German Geological Society. Vol. 51, 1899, pp. 299-399, Plate XVI.
An old town charter from Schlotheim. In: New communications from the field of historical-antiquarian research. Vol. 21, 1903, pp. 105-153.
The geognostic conditions of the sovereignty of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen [...]. Sondershausen: Eupel 1905. (36 pages.)
About a new form of Ophrys. In: Journal of Natural Sciences. Vol. 77, 1905, pp. 359-364.
Campylosepia elongata n. Sp. In: Journal of the German Geological Society for 1910. Vol. 62, 1911, pp. 359–361.

References and comments

↑ Obituary and obituary in: Der Deutsche. 1913, no.126.
↑ Picard, Karl (fl. 1905). International Plant Names Index (IPNI).
^ Negotiations of the Association for the Promotion of Agriculture in Sondershausen. Vol. 53, 1892/1893. Sondershausen 1893, pp. V and 2.
↑ The first suggestions probably came from his father E. Picard, town clerk in Schlotheim, who dealt with fossils. He was in contact with Christian Giebel and Karl Chop about this and published himself. ( Zeitschrift für die Gesammte Naturwissenschaften. Vol. 8, 1856, p. 423 ; Vol. 9, 1857, p. 127 ; Vol. 11, 1858, p. 425ff .)
^ Collections of the Sondershausen Castle Museum: Palaeontology. Website of the city of Sondershausen.
↑ Balatonites sondershusanus. Index to Organism Names (ION).
↑ About Balatonites sondershusanus n. Sp. In: Journal of the German Geological Society. Vol. 44, 1892, pp. 483-487.
↑ About a new Ophrys form. In: Journal of Natural Sciences. Vol. 77, 1905, pp. 359-364.
↑ Ophrys insectifera L. The Plant List. Version 1.1. (2013).
↑ See obituary notice; also note in Leopoldina. Issue 49, No. 6, 1913, p. 63. Digitized .

personal data
SURNAME	Picard, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Picard, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German geologist, botanist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 10, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schlotheim
DATE OF DEATH	May 31, 1913
Place of death	Sondershausen

[1] Obituary and obituary in: Der Deutsche. 1913, no.126.

[2] Picard, Karl (fl. 1905). International Plant Names Index (IPNI).

[3] Negotiations of the Association for the Promotion of Agriculture in Sondershausen. Vol. 53, 1892/1893. Sondershausen 1893, pp. V and 2.

[4] The first suggestions probably came from his father E. Picard, town clerk in Schlotheim, who dealt with fossils. He was in contact with Christian Giebel and Karl Chop about this and published himself. ( Zeitschrift für die Gesammte Naturwissenschaften. Vol. 8, 1856, p. 423 ; Vol. 9, 1857, p. 127 ; Vol. 11, 1858, p. 425ff .)

[5] Collections of the Sondershausen Castle Museum: Palaeontology. Website of the city of Sondershausen.

[6] Balatonites sondershusanus. Index to Organism Names (ION).

[7] About Balatonites sondershusanus n. Sp. In: Journal of the German Geological Society. Vol. 44, 1892, pp. 483-487.

[8] About a new Ophrys form. In: Journal of Natural Sciences. Vol. 77, 1905, pp. 359-364.

[9] Ophrys insectifera L. The Plant List. Version 1.1. (2013).

[10] See obituary notice; also note in Leopoldina. Issue 49, No. 6, 1913, p. 63. Digitized .