Mathias Joseph Bluff

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Mathias Joseph Bluff (born February 5, 1805 in Cologne , † June 5, 1837 in Aachen ) was a German medic and botanist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Bluff ".

Life

Mathias Joseph Bluff studied medicine at the University of Bonn from 1822 and at the University of Berlin from 1825 , where he received his doctorate in medicine and surgery on December 16, 1826. In 1827 he worked as a doctor in Gangelt, in 1829 in Geilenkirchen and from 1832 in Aachen. He married Agnes Reimbold, with whom he had a son and a daughter.

During his studies in Bonn he met the two brothers Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck and Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck , who supported him and made him enthusiastic about botany. Together with his friend Carl Anton Fingerhuth , with whom he published some writings together, he is the first describer of numerous botanical taxa.

He was a member of the Regensburg Botanical Society and from October 1834 a member of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine .

On August 3, 1833, he was elected a member ( matriculation no. 1365 ) of the Leopoldina with the academic surname van Swieten II .

Bluff was very musical and played violin and guitar, also composed pieces for guitar and finally learned fortepiano .

Honors

The plant genus Bluffia Nees from the sweet grass family was probably named in his honor in 1834 .

Fonts

  • with Carl Anton Fingerhuth: Compendium florae Germaniae. Sect. I. Plantae phanerogamicae seu vasculosae. Tomus I. Schrag, Norimbergae 1825 digitized .
  • with Carl Anton Fingerhuth: Compendium florae Germaniae. Sect. I. Plantae phanerogamicae seu vasculosae. Tomus II. Schrag, Norimbergae 1825 digitized .
  • De absorptione cutis. Inaugural dissertation, Berlin 1826.
  • Development combinations of organic beings. Bachem, Cologne 1827 digitized .
  • About the healing powers of the kitchen plants. Schrag, Nuremberg 1828 digitized .
  • with Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, Carl Anton Fingerhuth, Johann Conrad Schauer : Compendium florae Germaniae. Sectio I., Plantae phanerogamicae seu vasculosae. Tomus I, Pars I, Schrag, Norimbergae 1836 digitized .
  • with Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, Carl Anton Fingerhuth, Johann Conrad Schauer: Compendium florae Germaniae. Sectio I., Plantae phanerogamicae seu vasculosae. Tomus I, Pars II, Schrag, Norimbergae 1837 digitized .
  • Reform of the healing arts. First volume, Engelmann, Leipzig 1837 digitized .

literature

  • Carl Anton Fingerhuth: Matthias Joseph Bluff, practical doctor in Aachen. In: Second annual report of the botanical association on the Middle and Lower Rhine. Henry & Cohen, Bonn 1839, pp. 142–144 ( archive.org ).
  • New Nekrolog der Deutschen, 15, 1837, first part, Weimar 1839, p. 612 ( archive.org ).
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 262 ( archive.org ).
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 179 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the Botanical Association on the Middle and Lower Rhine as of July 31, 1836
  2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Bluff, Mathias Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES van Swieten II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 1837
Place of death Aachen