Wilhelm Theodor Gumbel
Wilhelm Theodor Gümbel (born May 19, 1812 in Dannenfels , † February 10, 1858 in Landau in the Palatinate ) was a German botanist. His botanical author abbreviation is " W. Gümbel ", in bryology the abbreviation " Gümb. " in use.
Life
Wilhelm Theodor Gümbel was one of 9 sons of the royal district forester Johann Friedrich Gümbel (1775–1841) and his wife Charlotte Roos (1781–1862). His youngest brother was the well-known geologist Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel . He studied theology in Heidelberg, technology in Würzburg and natural sciences with Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius in Munich, graduating in forestry in 1835. In 1837 he became a teacher of natural history and agriculture at the trade school in Zweibrücken and also a teacher of mathematics at the Latin school there. In 1840 he was a co-founder of the natural science association Pollichia , which also served as a board member for many years. In 1843 he switched to the newly founded trade school in Landau, where he became rector in 1853. He worked closely with his friend Philipp Bruch , who got him enthusiastic about bryology and involved him in the processing of Bryologia europaea .
His Moosherbar was handed over to the Botanical State Collection by the Agricultural School in Weihenstephan in 1898 by order of the Bavarian State Government. It contained his own collections mainly from the Palatinate, a moss collection by his brother Carl Wilhelm Gümbel, which came mainly from the Palatinate and the Bavarian Forest , as well as mosses from Philipp Bruch from the Palatinate, which had been collected especially around Zweibrücken , and some specimens from the Collection of Jean-Baptiste Mougeot ( Vosges ).
The mosses described by the three bryologists include Hylocomium , Philonotis calcarea , Homalothecium sericeum , common short-rifled moss , long-leaved fair -billed moss , tamarisk thuja moss and velvet short-rifle moss .
He had been married since 1844 and had four children.
Honors
Wilhelm Theodor Gümbel was elected a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 1853 .
Fonts
- With Wilhelm Philipp Schimper and Philipp Bruch : Bryologia europaea (Stuttgart 1836–1855, 6 vols. With 640 plates), + Supplement, Stuttgart 1864–1866, with 40 plates
- - Bryologia europaea Vol I Archive
- - Bryologia europaea Vol II Archive
- - Bryologia europaea Vol III
- - Bryologia europaea Vol IV Archives
- - Bryologia europaea Vol V Archives
literature
- Jan-Peter Frahm , Jens Eggers, Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen, 2001, pp. 153–154
- Wilhelm von Gümbel : Gümbel, Theodor . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 118 f.
- Martin Müllerott: Gümbel, Wilhelm Theodor. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 258 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Author entry at the IPNI
- ^ Tropicos: Gümbel, Wilhelm Theodor
- ↑ Gottfried Wilhelm Osann : memorial speech for Mr. Theodor Gümbel . In: Negotiations of the Physikalisch-Medizinischen Gesellschaft zu Würzburg , New Series, Volume 9. Stahel, Würzburg 1876, pp. XCV – XCVI, here p. XCVI.
- ^ List of members Leopoldina, Wilhelm Theodor von Gümbel
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gümbel, Wilhelm Theodor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | W.Gümbel (botanical author abbreviation); Gumb. (bryological author abbreviation) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dannenfels |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1858 |
| Place of death | Landau in the Palatinate |