Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer

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Ludwig Pfeiffer in 1856, from: Malakozoologische Blätter, Volume 3, 1857

Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer , sometimes also Louis Georg Karl Pfeiffer (* July 4, 1805 in Kassel , † October 2, 1877 in Kassel) was a Hessian , German doctor , botanist and malacologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Pfeiff. "

Live and act

Ludwig Georg Karl Pfeiffer is the son of the lawyer Burkhard Wilhelm Pfeiffer . He studied medicine from 1821 to 1825 in Göttingen and Marburg . In 1826 he settled in Kassel as a doctor and in 1828 became professor of pathology . During the November uprising in Poland in 1831 he was a medical officer in the insurgent army. His diary entries from this period were published in 2000.

Due to his scientific interests, he gave up his medical practice. In 1837 he published his first work on cacti in which he described the species cultivated in German gardens and their synonyms . Another work on cacti , written together with Christoph Friedrich Otto , followed in 1843 : Illustration and description of blooming cacti . In 1837 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1841, Pfeiffer was introduced by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville as member number 226 of the Société cuviérienne .

On October 28, 1838 Pfeiffer set out from Hamburg for Havana together with Johannes Gundlach and Carl Friedrich Eduard Otto , son of Christoph Friedrich Otto , where he arrived on January 5, 1839. In Cuba , where he actually wanted to collect cacti, he then turned more and more to collecting conchylia .

From 1840 to 1843 he traveled to Paris , Hungary , the Carniolan and Carinthian Alps and the areas of Fiume and Trieste . The results of these journeys can be found in Monographia Heliceorum viventium and Symbola ad historiam heliceorum .

Together with Karl Theodor Menke , he was editor of the Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie from 1846 (from 1854 Malakozoologische Blätter ).

His flora of Niederhessen and Münden , published from 1847 onwards, is the first flora of this area.

Honors

Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck named the genus Pfeiffera Salm-Dyck from the plant family of the cactus plants (Cactaceae) in his honor .

The genus Pfeifferago Kuntze from the plant family of the Cunoniaceae was named after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • Enumeratio Diagnostica Cactearum hucusque Cognitarum . Berlin 1837, online
  • Description and synonymy of the living cacti in German gardens: together with an overview of the larger collections and an appendix on the culture of cactus plants . Berlin 1837
  • Critical register for Martini and Chemnitz's Systematic Konchylien-Kabinet . Kassel 1840
  • Illustration and description of blooming cacti . Kassel 1843–1850 - with Christoph Friedrich Otto
  • Symbola ad Historiam Heliceorum . Kassel 1841–1846, 3 volumes
  • Overview of the wild growing and naturalized plants observed in Kurhessen so far . Kassel 1844
  • Flora from Niederhessen and Münden. Description of all wild and large-scale plants in the area . Kassel 1847–1855
  • Monographia Heliceorum viventium sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium hujus familiae generum et specierum hodie cognitarum . Leipzig 1848–1877, Volumes 1–8 (the Philippis departments relating to land snails)
  • Images and descriptions of new or little-known conchylia, with the help of several German conchyliologists . Kassel 1845–1851, 3 volumes - edited by Rudolf Amandus Philippi
  • Monographia Pneumonopomorum viventium, accedente fossilium enumeratione. Supplementum tertium. Monographiae Auriculaceorum . Kassel 1852–1876, 3 volumes and 3 appendices
  • Novitates conchologicae. Series great. Mollusca extramarina. Description and illustration of new or critical land and freshwater mollusks . Kassel 1854–1879 - with Oskar Boettger
  • Monographia Auriculaceorum viventium: sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium hujus familiae generum et specierum hodie cognitarum, nec non fossilium enumeratione: accedente proserpinaceorum nec non generis truncatellae historia . Kassel 1856
  • Monographia Pneumonopomorum viventium. Sistens descriptiones systematicas et criticas omnium hujus ordinis generum et specierum hodie cognitarum, accedente fossilium enumeratione . Kassel 1856
  • Synonymia botanica locupletissima generum, sectionum vel subgenerum ad finem anni 1858 promulgatorum. In forma conspectus systematici totius regni vegetabilis schemati Endlicheriano adaptati . Kassel 1870
  • Nomenclator botanicus. Nominum ad finem anni 1858 publici juris factorum, classes, ordines, tribus, familias, divisiones, genera, subgenera vel sectiones designantium enumeratio alphabetica. Adjectis auctoribus, temporibus, locis systematicis apud varios, notis literaris atque etymologicis et synonymis . Kassel 1871–1875, 2 volumes
  • Nomenclator heliceorum viventium quo continetur nomina omnium hujus familiae generum et specierum hodie cognitarum disposita ex affinitate naturali Kassel 1879–1881
  • As a Kassel doctor in the Polish struggle for freedom in 1831: a diary . Hofgeismar 2000

proof

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Société cuviérienne, p. 208.
  2. ↑ Cacteae in Horto Dyckensi Cultae Anno 1844 . Paris 1845.
  3. ↑ a b Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymic 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 .
  4. ↑ Otto Kuntze : Revisio Generum Plantarum ... Leipzig 1891, p. 227 [1]

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SURNAME Pfeiffer, Ludwig Georg Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfeiffer, Louis Georg Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, botanist and malacologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1877
Place of death kassel