Moritz Goldschmidt (biologist)

Moritz Goldschmidt

Moritz Goldschmidt (born October 15, 1863 in Bischhausen near Eschwege , † September 7, 1916 in Geisa ) was a German teacher and botanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ M.Goldschm. ".

Live and act

Goldschmidt taught at the Israelite school in Geisa in the Rhön since 1885 , where he made friends with the pharmacist Adalbert Geheeb , who worked as a botanist. Goldschmidt dealt intensively with the native flora and published parts of the multi-volume flora of the Rhön Mountains from 1900 to 1915 . So far it is the only work on the entire flora of the Rhön. The series should be continued by the teacher and Goldschmidt's student Otto Arnold from Unterweid . However, this fell in the First World War . His collection, consisting of 300 folders with a total of more than 20,000 individual plant preparations, was integrated into the Herbarium Senckenbergianum in Frankfurt am Main .

Goldschmidt died in 1916 after suffering from diabetes for a long time , after initially being completely blind. His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Geisa.

Honors

• The Geisa branch of the Rhön Club had a first memorial stone erected for Goldschmidt on the Rockenstuhl in 1922, but it was destroyed by the National Socialists in 1933 . The Rhönklub had a replacement built on the Küppel near Tann-Neuswarts in 1971 . In July 1990 a new memorial stone for Adalbert Geheeb and Moritz Goldschmidt was erected on the Rockenstuhl.
• Another memorial plaque has been on the building of the former Jewish school in Geisa since 1989.

Web links

• Author entry and list of the plant names described for Moritz Goldschmidt (biologist) at the IPNI
• Uwe Barth: Botanist of the Rhön Moritz Goldschmidt (Rhön botanist) . Rhön Lexicon.
• Stefan Dressler: Showcase in October - collectors and things collected. Moritz Goldschmidt, botanist of the Rhön . Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt
• Ute Lange: On the 100th anniversary of the death of Moritz Goldschmidt - the "botanist of the Rhön" , Buchenblätter (supplement to the Fuldaer Zeitung) No. 19, 2016 Online (accessed on October 2, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Uwe Barth: Botaniker der Rhön Moritz Goldschmidt (Rhön botanist) . Rhön Lexicon.
2. ↑ Heinz Kleber: On the history of the Jewish community Geisa / Rhön. The Jewish cemetery on the outskirts of the city ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Geisa City Council, Geisa 2003.