Ludolf Christian Treviranus

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Ludolf Christian Treviranus in 1837

Ludolf Christian Treviranus , also Ludolph (born September 18, 1779 in Bremen , † May 6, 1864 in Bonn ) was a German botanist and university professor . Its botanical author abbreviation is “ Trevir. "

Live and act

Ludolf Christian Treviranus began studying medicine at the University of Jena in 1789 , where he also studied botany with August Batsch and philosophy with Friedrich Schelling and Johann Gottlieb Fichte . In 1801 he was promoted to Dr. med. doctorate and then worked as a doctor and from 1807 as a third professor at the Lyceum in Bremen .

In 1812 he was appointed full professor of natural history and botany at the University of Rostock , where he was also appointed director of the botanical garden. From 1816 he worked as a full professor of botany at the new Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau as the successor to Heinrich Friedrich Link . In 1827/28 he was rector .

In 1830 he moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , where he succeeded the botanist and natural philosopher Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck , while Nees received Treviranus' position in Breslau. In Bonn, Treviranus and Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck , brother of the "exchange partner", also ran the Bonn Botanical Garden .

In his early research phase, Treviranus dealt mainly with plant physiology and plant anatomy , later more with taxonomy . He discovered the intercellular spaces and the structure of the epidermis and, in his research, particularly emphasized aspects of the history of development.

He also carried out several studies on the sexuality of plants, in which he spoke out against the natural philosophical views of Franz Joseph Schelver and August Wilhelm Eduard Theodor Henschel . His views formed the basis for later insights, such as those of Hugo von Mohl .

His plant anatomical work, such as the construction of the wood and the creation of the vessels, is important.

Ludolph Christian Treviranus was a brother of the doctor and naturalist Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776–1837) and the mechanic Ludwig Georg Treviranus (1790–1869).

Honors

In 1820 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . Since 1834 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian , since 1835 of the Académie des Sciences and since 1849 a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1839 he became an honorary member of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine .

In his honor was the genus Trevirana Willd. named from the plant family of the Gesneriaceae (Gesneriaceae).

Fonts

  • On the internal structure of the plants (1806)
  • Contributions to plant physiology (1811)
  • The development of the embryo and its envelopes in the plant egg (1815)
  • Physiology of plants (1835–38, 2 volumes)
  • De Delphinio et Aquilegia observationes . 1817
  • The use of woodcuts to depict plants . 1855

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  2. ↑ Member entry of Ludolph Christian Treviranus at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ Philipp Wirtgen : The botanical association on the Middle and Lower Rhine . In: Flora or general botanical newspaper, 21, 1841, p. 331 digitized
  4. ↑ 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 .
  5. ↑ a b Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 2067. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
personal data
SURNAME Treviranus, Ludolf Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Treviranus, Ludolph Christian; Trevir. (Author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1864
Place of death Bonn