Ludwig Preiss (botanist)

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Johann August Ludwig Preiss (born November 21, 1811 in Herzberg am Harz ; † May 21, 1883 there ) was a German-British natural scientist born in Germany . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " L.Preiss ".

Life

Preiss trained as a gardener at the Göttingen Botanical Garden and later studied medicine. From 1838 to 1842 he went on a research trip to Australia and became a British citizen in 1841. On his return he left London in January 1842 and spent the rest of his life in Germany. In 1843, Preiss was elected a member of the Leopoldina in the botany section . Preiss was a landowner in Herzberg. He was a bachelor, in Herzberg he looked after single mothers and their children.

Preiss was primarily a plant collector, but put together extensive natural history collections of all kinds. His very large collection comprised around 200,000 plants. It was described by Johann Georg Christian Lehmann and other European helpers and published in Hamburg from 1844 to 1847 in parts under the title Plantae Preissianae sive Enumeratio Plantarum quas in Australasia occidentali et meridionali-occidentali annis 1838-1841 collegit Ludovicus Preiss . Most of his mollusc shell collections were dealt with by Karl Theodor Menke in his work Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen , which was published in Hanover in 1843 .

In 1839 he sent the first specimen of the pointed-headed tortoise known to science , labeled "New Holland", the historical name for Australia, to the Vienna Museum. Further specimens of the species were not collected again until 1953.

Honors

In 1856, Prize of the Guelph Order, 4th class, was awarded. The plant genus Neopreissia Ulbr is named after Price . from the family of the foxtail plants (Amaranthaceae).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author entry and list of the plant names described for Ludwig Preiss (botanist) at the IPNI
  2. ↑ a b N. N .: Johann August Ludwig Preiss (November 21, 1811 - May 21, 1883). In: Zurich Herbaria. Institute for Systematic and Evolutionary Botany at the University of Zurich, accessed on May 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Gerhard Wagenitz: Göttingen biologists 1737-1945: a biographical-bibliographical list. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, ISBN 978-3525358764 , p. 140.
  4. ^ A b John Henry Calaby: Preiss, Johann August Ludwig (1811-1883). In: Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Center of Biography, Australian National University, 1967, accessed May 20, 2019 .
  5. ^ Member entry by Johann August Ludwig Preiss at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 12, 2015.
  6. ^ Australian Government, Department of the Environment: Western Swamp Tortoise ( Pseudemydura umbrina ) Recovery Plan
  7. ↑ Local and Provincialchronik , (13 August 1856), in Bohemia , 29th Jg., Prague 1856, p. 225
  8. ↑ 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 .
personal data
SURNAME Preiss, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Preiss, Johann August Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzberg am Harz
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1883
Place of death Herzberg am Harz