Wilhelm von der Marck (pharmacist)

Johann Wilhelm Carl Theodor von der Marck (born February 15, 1815 in Hamm ; † November 20, 1900 there ) was a German pharmacist , botanist and geologist .

Life

Grave in the Ostenfriedhof (April 2006)

On February 15, 1815, Wilhelm von der Marck was born in Hamm as the son of the innkeeper Johann Daniel von der Marck (1784–1837) and Antoinette Sophie Christine Pröpsting. From 1824 to 1830 he attended the Hammonense grammar school . He initially worked as a pharmacist in the Rhineland, but from 1840 in Lüdenscheid , where he became a city councilor in 1848 and gathered materials for a city chronicle. In 1840 he married Josefine Friederike Luise Uhlendorff (1818–1861), a daughter of the pharmacist Friedrich Uhlendorff, in Hamm. From 1851 he ran the unicorn pharmacy in Hamm, which his father-in-law had taken over, but sold it in 1864 in order to devote himself entirely to science and local politics. From 1852 to 1893 he held the honorary post of First Alderman, ie the Deputy Mayor. He also co-founded the Scientific Association in Hamm in 1852, and became its chairman in 1864. In 1858 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. He was active in the museum association and in the AG Bad Hamm . His paleontological research has given him a good reputation far beyond Hamm. On November 20, 1900, Dr. Wilhelm von der Marck. His grave is still in the Ostenfriedhof today . The Von-der-Marck-Strasse in the south of Hammer and in Lüdenscheid are named after Wilhelm von der Marck.

Awards

In 1877 his hometown Hamm granted him honorary citizenship .

Works

• Flora Lüdenscheids and the Altena district, as a contribution to the knowledge of the vegetation conditions of the Sauerland , in: Negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia. Volume 8.1851, pp. 377–503.

literature

• Wilhelm Bierbrodt: Memorial sheet for Dr. Wilhelm von der Marck , in: Heimat am Hellweg. 1954 calendar for Hamm and the district of Unna, pp. 137–141.
• F [riedrich] J [ohannes] Wienstein: 1882 was elected for three months. The merits of the pharmacist Dr. Wilhelm von der Marck , in: Westfälischer Anzeiger and Kurier of December 17, 1958.
• F [riedrich] J [ohannes] Wienstein: The name von der Marck has always been closely associated with the city. On the 150th birthday of a well-deserved Hammer honorary citizen , in: Westfälischer Anzeiger and Kurier from 13/14 February 1965.
• Ellen Schwinzer, Maria Perrefort, Ute Knopp, 125 years in Bad Hamm. A journey through time through the bathing history of the city , published in 2007 by the Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Hamm as Notes on City History 13 , accompanying the exhibition of the same name from July 8 to September 23, 2007.