Max Ernst Wichura

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Max Ernst Wichura (born January 27, 1817 in Neisse ; † February 24/25 , 1866 in Berlin ) was a Silesian-Prussian lawyer, councilor and botanical traveler.

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The son of the district judge attended the Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Breslau , where director Friedrich Wimmer aroused his interest in biology.

He studied law in Wroclaw and Bonn from 1836–39, was city judge in Wroclaw from 1851–1857, then switched to administration and in 1859 was appointed councilor in Wroclaw.

He undertook several botanical trips, for example in the summer of 1846 to Ustron in Austrian Silesia and in the summer of 1856 a major trip to Lapland with Wallenberg from Breslau and Erik Carl Johan Cederstraehle from Uppsala. In the Alps and Carpathians he undertook cryptogam studies. At the suggestion of the Academy of Sciences, he accompanied the Prussian expedition from autumn 1859 , together with the zoologist Eduard von Martens , the gardener Otto Schottmüller († December 1, 1865 in Berlin), medical officer Carl Friedel (1833–1885) and Ferdinand von Richthofen on the SMS Thetis (1855) as a botanist to East Asia. They visited Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, Manila and various coasts of the Chinese and Japanese empires. After his return in the summer of 1863, he was given leave at the end of 1865 to work on his plant collection in Berlin. He succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning.

Honors

The semi-evergreen climbing rose Rosa wichuraiana , which he brought from Japan, is named after him; with her, René Barbier (rose breeder) bred many valuable varieties. The plant genus Wichuraea M. Roem is also named after him . from the family Amarylidaceae.

Publications

  • The hybrid fertilization in the vegetable kingdom is explained using the hybrids of the willow trees ; 1865

Web links

Wikisource: Max Ernst Wichura  - Sources and full texts

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  1. ↑ Ernst Wunschmann:  Wichura, Max . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, pp. 316-318.
  2. ^ Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists, Volume 2, p. 560 .
  3. ^ Lexicon of German-speaking bryologists, Volume 2, p. 470 .
  4. ↑ http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000040822 .
  5. ↑ http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/FMCollectors/s/SchottmullerO.htm .
  6. ↑ 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 Wichura, Max Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wichura, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian government councilor and botanical traveler
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Nysa
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1866 or February 25, 1866
Place of death Berlin