Wilhelm Philipp Schimper

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Wilhelm Philipp Schimper

Wilhelm Philipp Schimper (born January 12, 1808 in Dossenheim in Alsace near Zabern , † March 20, 1880 in Strasbourg ) was a German botanist , geologist and paleobotanist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ Schimp. "

Live and act

Wilhelm Philipp Schimper was the cousin of the brothers Karl Friedrich Schimper and Wilhelm Schimper and the father of Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper . Since he was scientifically involved with mosses , among other things , he is also referred to as "moss chimper" to distinguish it from his namesake.

Schimper first studied philosophy , mathematics and philology at the University of Strasbourg from 1826 to 1828 , then from 1828 theology there . After brief journeys in the natural sciences, he was employed as an assistant at the Zoological Museum of the City of Strasbourg in 1835 , in 1838 he became curator and librarian of the collections, in 1839 director of the museum and from 1862 to 1879 also taught as professor of geology , mineralogy and natural history at the university. The scientific focus of his work was the systematics of mosses and plant fossils .

The term Paleocene for the lowest series of the Tertiary (65 to 53 million years ago) was coined by Wilhelm Philipp Schimper.

Honors

Wilhelm Philipp Schimper was a member of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors and was elected a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 1862 . From 1854 he was a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. In 1866 he became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1869 he became an honorary member of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg . In 1872 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

According to Wilhelm Philipp Schimper, the moss genera are Schimperella Ther. and Schimperobryum Margad. named.

Fonts

Bust in the Zoological Museum of the City of Strasbourg
  • with Philipp Bruch and Theodor Gümbel : Bryologia europaea (Stuttgart 1836–55, 6 vols. with 640 plates), + Supplement, Stuttgart 1864–66, with 40 plates
  • - Bryologia europaea Vol. I Archives
  • - Bryologia europaea Vol. II Archives
  • - Bryologia europaea Vol. III
  • - Bryologia europaea Vol. IV Archives
  • - Bryologia europaea Vol. V Archives
  • with Antoine Mougeot : Monograph des Plantes fossiles du Gres Bigarre de la chaine des Vosges, Premiere Partie, Coniferes et Cycadeés , Planches Tab. I-XVIII, Treuttel et Wurtz, Strasbourg et Paris 1840, pp. 1–36 Archives
  • with Antoine Mougeot: Monograph des Plantes fossiles du Gres Bigarre de la chaine des Vosges, Deuxieme Partie, Monocotyledonées et Acotyledonées , Planches Tab. XIX - XXIX, Treuttel et Wurtz, Strasbourg et Paris 1841, pp. 37–59 Archive Biodiversity Library
  • with Antoine Mougeot: Monograph des Plantes fossiles du Grès Bigarré de la chaine des Vosges. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann 1844, Google Books Gallica , (83 pages, 40 plates).
  • Stirpes normales bryologiae europaeae , Strasbourg 1844–1854
  • Recherches anatomiques et morphologiques sur les mousses , Strasbourg 1849
  • Icones morphologicae , Stuttgart 1860
  • Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des Sphagnum , Paris 1854 (German, Stuttgart 1857)
  • Palaeontologica alsatica , Strasbourg 1854 f.
  • Synopsis muscorum europaeorum , Stuttgart 1860, 2nd edition 1876
  • Le terrain de transition des Vosges , Strasbourg 1862, with Köchlin
  • Traité de paleontologie végétale , Paris 1869–74, 3 volumes

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Members of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors 1857
  2. ^ Member entry of Wilhelm Philipp Schimper at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 2, 2016.
  3. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter S. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 27, 2020 (French).
  4. ^ Member entry by Wilhelm Philipp Schimper at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 2, 2016.
  5. ^ Honorary members of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg
  6. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 212.
  7. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
  8. ^ Discussion in Isis 1840, digitized version of the University of Jena
  9. ↑ Flora 1842, Google Books
personal data
SURNAME Schimper, Wilhelm Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French botanist and paleobotanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1880
Place of death Strasbourg