Karl Wilhelm Ludwig cardboard
Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe , also Carl , (born March 21, 1803 in Hamburg , † October 14, 1862 in Cape Town ) was a German botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " cardboard ".
Life
Pappe was the son of the writer Johann Joseph Christian Pappe (1768-1856). He spent his school days at the Johanneum in Hamburg. Presumably he then attended the academic high school . Pappe studied medicine and botany in Leipzig and moved to Cape Town as a doctor in the Cape Colony in 1830 , where he opened a practice in 1831. There he dealt intensively with the botany of South Africa, made friends with the head of the botanical garden Baron von Ludwig and in 1858 became professor of botany at the South African College and thus the first botany professor in South Africa. He was also the first to have the title of Colonial Botanist in South Africa from 1858 . He traveled extensively in South Africa to build a herbarium of the country's plants. He sent parts of his collection to William Henry Harvey of Trinity College Dublin, who was working on a monograph on plants of the Cape Province (Flora Capensis), for identification. His herbarium is at the South African Museum . There the collection was neglected and came to the Compton Herbarium in Kirstenbosch in 1856 .
As a botanist, he was highly regarded in South Africa and beyond, also for his work on economically usable plants (such as trees).
He was also on the Botanical Commission (Botanical Garden) of South Africa, but resigned when his friend Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher , who had become overseer in the Botanical Garden of Cape Town through his influence, was dismissed under an excuse in 1849. He took over the herbarium from Zeyher, which also came to the South African Museum via cardboard.
In 1857 he became a member of the Leopoldina .
Honors
The tree genus Pappea Eckl. & Zeyh. from the soap tree family (Sapindaceae) was named in his honor.
Fonts
- Synopsis plantarum phaenogamarum agro Lipsiensi indigenarum . Leopoldi Vossiii, Lipsiae 1828, digitized
- Florae Capensis medicae prodromus; or, an enumeration of South African plants used as rededies by the colonists of the Cape of Good Hope . Cape Town 1857, digitized
- Silva Capensis: or a description of South African forest trees and arborescent shrubs used for technical and economical purposes . London 1862
- with Rawson William Rawson : Synopsis filicum Africae Australis, or, An enumeration of the South African ferns hitherto known . 1858
literature
- D. Geary-Cooke: Carl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe 1803-1862 . In: Veld & Flora , 61, 1975, pp. 12-14.
- Entry in Jan-Peter Frahm , Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists . 2001
Web links
- JSTOR Global Plants
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Pappe at the IPNI
- C. Plug: cardboard, Dr Carl Wilhelm Ludwig (botany). In: S2A3. Biographical Database of Southern African Science, accessed December 11, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2934. Cardboard (Carl Ludwig) . In: Hans Schröder : Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present , Vol. 5 (1870), Maak - Pauli, Hamburg 1867, pp. 644–645
- ↑ 2935. Cardboard (Johann Joseph Christian) . In: Hans Schröder: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present , Vol. 5 (1870), Maak - Pauli, Hamburg 1867, pp. 646–648
- ↑ In an obituary it is said that he was a listener to Lehmann . Lehmann taught at the Academic Gymnasium: Personal Message . In: Mohl, Schlechtendal (ed.): Botanische Zeitung , 21st year, Arthur Felix, Leipzig 1863, p. 112
- ↑ Ludwig Pappe. List of members Leopoldina
- ↑ 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 .
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SURNAME | Cardboard, Karl Wilhelm Ludwig |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cardboard, Carl Wilhelm Ludwig |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1803 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1862 |
Place of death | Cape Town |