Konrad Beyrich
Konrad Beyrich , also Conrad Beyrich (born February 24, 1852 in Weißig near Crossen , † after 1894 ) was a German explorer and naturalist.
Life
Beyrich attended high school in Lauban . From 1869 to 1872 he was a merchant in Erdmannsdorf and from 1875 to 1886 landowner with a chemical bleaching facility in Arnsdorf and Krummhübel in the Giant Mountains . In the autumn of 1886 Beyrich traveled to the Cape Colony and from there via Natal and Zululand to the Transvaal . He lived in the gold fields near Barberton , traveled in Mauch's footsteps to Matabeleland and visited the King of Swaziland . Along with Franz Bachmann traveled Beyrich for the German Society Pondoland the Pondoland . Beyrich and Bachmann stations built Lamba (also Lombaas ) at Port Grosvenor and Intsubana on the edge of Egossa forest. In the spring of 1890 he traveled back to Germany via Cape Town . On behalf of the German Colonial Society , he gave lectures on eastern and southern Africa . About 1894 Beyrich lived in Herischdorf near Warmbrunn in Silesia.
Beyrich was a nephew of the geologist Heinrich Ernst Beyrich .
plant
Beyrich sent a collection of natural objects to Germany, which is in the Botanical Museum in Berlin . Beyrich and Bachmann were the first travelers to collect land snails in the Transkei . Beyrich is honored in generic names, for example in Sphagnum beyrichianum Warnst .
Works (selection)
- The area of the lower Umzimvubu in Pondoland . In: Deutsche Kolonialzeitung. No. 21, 2nd year (new series), May 25, 1889, pp. 163–165 ( online at Uni. Frankfurt / M. ).
- Matter and world ether . Warmbrunn 1894 ( online at archive.org ).
literature
- Jan-Peter Frahm , Jens Eggers: Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists. Volume 1, Bonn / Schenefeld 2001, ISBN 3-8311-0986-9 , p. 40.
- Hugh F. Glen, Gerrit Germishuizen (Ed.): Botanical exploration of southern Africa. 2nd ed., Strelitzia 26, South African National Biodiversity Institute , Pretoria 2010, ISBN 978-1-919976-54-9 , p. 97 ( online at biodiversitylibrary.org ).
- Conrad Weidmann : German men in Africa - Lexicon of the most outstanding German Africa researchers, missionaries, etc. Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1894, p. 13 f. ( online at archive.org ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Hertwig: The coastal area of Natal and Pondoland in its economic development, in: Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen . Volume 34, 1888, pp. 358 ff. ( Online on the website of the University of Jena. )
- ↑ Franz Bachmann: South Africa - Travel, Experiences and Observations during a six-year stay in the Cape Colony, Natal and Pondoland . H. Eichblatt, Berlin 1901, DNB 57912536X , p. 207 f.
- ^ Franz Hilgendorf (Ed.): Archive for Natural History. Volume 63, Volume 1, p. 36.
- ↑ Sphagnum beyrichianum Warnst. The Plant List (Ed.), April 18, 2012, accessed May 5, 2019 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beyrich, Konrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beyrich, Conrad (alternative spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German explorer and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Whitish on Crossen |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1894 |