Tobias Philipp Ekart

Tobias Philipp Ekart (born May 22, 1799 in Simau ; † November 1, 1877 in Bamberg ) was a German botanist . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Ekart ".

Life

Tobias Philipp Ekart, who received a Dr. phil. doctorate, worked in the first half of the 19th century as Fürstlich Schwarzburg-Sondershausenscher garden inspector in Sondershausen . Sondershausen he designed it in the 1840s for Günther Friedrich Carl II. Of black-Sondershausen the Castle Park Sondershausen order. From around 1848 he lived in Bamberg. As a botanist he is best known for the publication of the first identification book for German liverworts in 1832 .

Tobias Philipp Ekart was born on August 3, 1835 with matriculation no. In 1407 and with the academic surname Mohr, he was admitted to the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .

Franconia and Thuringia's flora in true-to-life illustrations . Dresch, Bamberg and Aschaffenburg 1828 ( digitized version )
Synopsis Jungermanniarum in Germania vicinisque terris hucusque cognitarum . Riemann, Coburgi 1832 ( digitized version )
Reflections on visual landscape garden art in an explanatory description of the Princely Park in Sondershausen . Potsdam 1840 ( digitized version )

Jan-Peter Frahm & Jens Eggers: Ekart, Tobias Philipp (1799–1877) . In: Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen , 2001, pp. 94–95 ( digital copy )
Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, directory of the members of the academy, according to the chronological order, p. 264 ( archive.org ).