Werner de Lachenal

Bust for Werner de Lachenal in the Botanical Garden of the University of Basel (1870)

Wernhard "Werner" de Lachenal (born October 23, 1736 in Basel , † October 4, 1800 there ) was a Swiss anatomist and botanist .

Life

The son of the pharmacist Johann Jakob de Lachenal (1708–1749) and Maria Margaretha, b. Gottfried, broke off training as a pharmacist. He obtained a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Basel in 1755 and studied medicine at the Universities of Basel and Strasbourg . He completed practical training with the Württemberg court doctor and personal physician David Charles Emmanuel Berdot (1738–1780) in Mömpelgard . In 1763 de Lachenal was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . From then on he worked as a doctor in Basel. From 1776 to 1798 he was professor of anatomy and botany at the University of Basel, where he was rector in 1783/84 and 1795/96.

Lachenal redesigned the botanical garden and expanded the botanical library and the herbarium. He published on botany and was in correspondence with scholars at home and abroad, including Albrecht von Haller . From 1778 he was a member of the Helvetic Society .

Werner de Lachenal was married to Margaretha Passavant from 1763.

literature

Albrecht Burckhardt : History of the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel 1460-1900. F. Reinhardt, Basel 1917, pp. 233 f., 241-243.
Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Werner de Lachenal. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 11, 2008 .
Max Triet, Pius Marrer, Hans Rindlisbacher (eds.): The register of the University of Basel, 1460-1818. Volume 5, Verlag der Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Basel 1980, p. 181 f. (No. 874; digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME	Lachenal, Werner de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lachenal, Wernhard de (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss anatomist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 23, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel
DATE OF DEATH	4th October 1800
Place of death	Basel