Wilhelm Ludwig Döring

Wilhelm Ludwig Döring (born July 10, 1802 in Bochum ; † May 1, 1877 in Düsseldorf ) was a German physician, natural scientist and natural history collector who worked in Remscheid from 1831 to 1863 and most recently in Düsseldorf.

Life

Wilhelm Ludwig Döring was the son of the pharmacist and former owner of the rose pharmacy in Bochum Peter Wilhelm Ludwig Döring (1766–1841) and his wife Helena Christina, née Kortum (1770–1839), daughter of the doctor and well-known poet of the Jobsiade Carl Arnold Kortum (1745-1824) and his wife Helena Margaretha, née Ehinger (1744-1825). His sister Hermina Arnoldine (1799–1890) was with the pharmacist Theodor Löbbecke sen. (1798–1857) married. The pharmacist Theodor Löbbecke (1821–1901) was his nephew.

Wilhelm Ludwig Döring studied at the University of Berlin , was in Berlin to Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Surgery doctorate and later worked from 1831 to about 1863 as a physician and medical officer in Remscheid. From his grandfather Carl Arnold Kortum and his father he had inherited an extensive library as well as a collection of paintings and natural objects, which he maintained and expanded. He dealt with moss studies and was able to produce several scientifically interesting evidence from his collections in Bergisch. His rose book ( The Queen of Flowers) , published in 1835, is an extensive cultural-historical work that attracted scientific attention at the time. He inspired the painter Johann Peter Hasenclever from Remscheid to write the well-known series of pictures Jobsiade.

He was married to his wife Caroline Friederike (1803-1870), née Trabert, who came from Elberfeld. When the family moved to Düsseldorf around 1863, he gave his nephew Theodor Löbbecke the extensive collection of mussels and snails, which was probably already created by his grandfather, and which later formed the basis of the collections of the Löbbecke Museum in Düsseldorf.

Wilhelm Ludwig Döring was an honorary member of the pharmacists' association in Northern Germany and was registered on August 3, 1835 with matriculation no. 1406 and the academic surname Kortum accepted into the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

Fonts

• De pelvi eiusque per animantium regnum metamorphosi . Dissertatio Inauguralis Zootomico-Physiologica, Berolini 1824 ( digitized version )
• The queen of flowers, or the higher meaning of the rose in itself and in relation to the world of the mind, according to nature, poetry and history. A contribution to a deeper understanding and knowledge of nature in general . Lucas, Elberfeld 1835 ( digitized version )

literature

• Jan-Peter Frahm & Jens Eggers: Döring, Wilhelm Ludwig (1802–1877) . In: Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen , 2001, p. 83 ( digitized version )
• Peter Arnold Heuser: The natural scientist Theodor Löbbecke. Family - life and work. In: Die Heimat speaks zu Dir. Monthly supplement of the Remscheider General-Anzeiger, 9, 48, September 1981 ( digitized version )
• 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 ).
• Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 180 ( archive.org ).

Web links

• Member entry of Wilhelm Ludwig Döring at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
• Wilhelm Ludwig Döring in the German biography
• Works by and about Wilhelm Ludwig Döring  in the German Digital Library
• Literature by and about Wilhelm Ludwig Döring in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ An extensive collection of these and other pictures by Johann Peter Hasenclever ( Düsseldorfer Malerschule ) is in the Cleff house in Remscheid - Hasten .