Paul Dietrich Giseke

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Paul Dietrich Giseke (born December 8, 1741 in Hamburg ; † April 26, 1796 there ) was a German doctor, botanist , teacher and librarian in Hamburg. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Giseke ".

Life

Paul Dietrich Giseke was born on December 8, 1741 in Hamburg, the son of a businessman. He attended the Johanneum and then the Academic Gymnasium . Giseke studied medicine and botany from 1764 at the University of Göttingen . In 1767 he received his doctorate . He then went on study trips through France and Sweden . During these stays abroad he met Carl von Linné (1707–1778) and became his pupil and close friend, so that Linné even named the plant family “ Gisekiaceae ” after him.

Back from abroad, Giseke initially practiced as a doctor in Hamburg. In the winter of 1771 he held a lecture for doctors in the newly opened Theatrum Anatomicum in the Einbeck house . He was a member of the board of the Hamburg Medical Association, the predecessor of the Medical Association. On December 12, 1771, he began as a professor of physics and poetry at the Academic Gymnasium as the successor to Johann Christian Wolf . In 1777 he was involved in the edition of the book Icones Plantarum , which had been produced using the natural printing process.

From 1784 he was next to Martin Friedrich Pitiscus (1722–1794) second and after his death from 1794 until the end of his life (1796) first librarian at the City Library, the predecessor of the State and University Library Hamburg .

In 1789 Giseke was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . His estate is in the Hamburg State and University Library. The correspondence with Carl von Linné has also been preserved.

He was married to Charlotta Wilhelmina Fixsen but had no children. He died on April 26, 1796 in Hamburg.

Honor taxon

In his honor, the genus Gisekia L. of the plant family of the ice herb family (Aizoaceae) was named.

Works

literature

  • Adolf Meyer, Nature research and nature studies in old Hamburg: memorial sheets in honor of the 90th meeting of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors in Hamburg (September 1928), Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors, Hamburg State and University Library, 1928, p. 57.
  • A. von Hirsch (ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples (before 1880) . 2nd edition, 6 vols., Berlin; Vienna 1929–1935.
  • Karl Bader: Lexicon of German librarians in full and part-time positions with princes, states and others. Cities . Leipzig 1925. [Central Gazette for Libraries. Beih. 55]

Secondary literature

  • Paul Diedr. Giesecke . In: Dr. Hermann Gustav Gernet, communications from the older medicinal history of Hamburg . Cultural-historical sketch on documentary and historical ground, Mauke & Söhne, Hamburg, 1869, p. 344, ( online )
  • GE Guhrauer : About Nicolas Dietrich Giseke . In: Blätter für literary entertainment, year 1846, 2 vol., Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1846, pp. 1230–1232, ( online ). (Information on family relationships)
  • Giseke, (Paul Dietrich) . In: Samuel Baur (Hrsg.): General historical concise dictionary of all strange people who died in the last decade of the 18th century . Stettin, Ulm 1803, p. 399 [218], ( BSB ).
  • 1796. Paul Dietrich Gieseke . In: J. Smidt (Senator in Bremen) (Ed.): Hanseatische Magazin , 5th vol., Bremen, Friedrich Wilmans, 1802, p. 156, ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present . Developed on behalf of the Association for Hamburg History . Vol. 2, Hamburg 1854, No. 1233
  2. ↑ Gerhard Wagenitz (Ed.): Göttinger Biologen 1737-1945: A biographical-bibliographical list. Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht, Göttingen, 1988, ISBN 3-525-35876-8 , p. 65, ( online ).
  3. ↑ Dr. Hermann Gustav Gernet, communications from the older medicinal history of Hamburg . Cultural-historical sketch on documentary and historical ground, Mauke & Söhne, Hamburg, 1869, p. 336, ( online )
  4. ^ Johann Otto Thiess : Attempt at a scholarly history of Hamburg . Vol. 1, Hamburg, 1783, p. 244, ( online. )
  5. ^ Heinrich Sander , description of his travels through France, the Netherlands, ... , second part, Leipzig 1784, p. 214 ff., ( Online ).
  6. ^ Member entry by Paul Dietrich Giseke at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 11, 2015.
  7. ↑ Results display ( online )
  8. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
  9. ^ Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . 4 vol. Leipzig 1804, p. 191, ( online )
  10. ↑ Brochure on "Icones Plantarum", ( doi : 10.7891 / e-manuscripta-15618 )
  11. ↑ This is probably Johann Nikolaus Buek (1736–1812)
  12. ↑ Review in General German Library, Anh. 1771-91, Anh. 25-36 Vol., 5th Ab., 1780, pp. 3084-3085, ( online )
  13. ^ Albert Voigt: The botanical institutes of the Free and Hanseatic City , Verlag Leopold Voss, Hamburg a. Leipzig, 1897, p. 96, ( online )
  14. ^ Wilhelm Weimar: About photographic recordings of plants ... , in Natural Science Association in Hamburg, Third Part XV, Hamburg, 1907, p. LXXXIX, ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Giseke, Paul Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gieseke, Paul Diedr .; Giseke, Paul Dieterich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, botanist, teacher and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1796
Place of death Hamburg