Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter

Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter (* February 16, 1787 in Stuttgart, † February 20, 1860 in Reutlingen, Germany ) was a German botanist and pastor of Esslingen am Neckar. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Hochst. ".

Life

Hochstetter attended high school in Stuttgart and the theological pen in Tübingen. In 1807 he received a master's degree.

During his studies in Tübingen Hochstetter member was in founded in Tübingen by Karl Ludwig Reichenbach on February 12, 1806 secret society to establish a colony on Tahiti ( Otaheite ) in the South Seas ( Otaheite Society). The end of 1808, the Company was discovered and most of its members arrested on suspicion of treason. Hochstetter was classified as a hanger and came after 70 days in detention in the castle against payment of the cost of prison again.

Later he was for six months teaching at a private hospital in Erlangen, then four years a tutor in the house of the Minister of the Old Stone. In 1816, he was a pastor and school inspector of the Protestant community in Brno ( Moravia ), also a senior at the Brno district. 1824 Hochstetter was a professor at the School Teachers' Training College in Esslingen, 1825, at the same time deacon and priest in 1829 in Esslingen. Hochstetter published numerous writings on natural history, botany and mineralogy, but also for theology and education.

His son from his fourth marriage with Sophie Friederike Orth (* 1795 in Heilbronn, † 1861), Christian Ferdinand von Hochstetter (* 1829 in Esslingen, † 1884 in Vienna ) was a geographer, geologist, naturalist and explorer.

Ehrentaxon

The plant genus Hochstetteria DC. plant sunflower family ( Asteraceae) has been named after him.

Works (selection)

  • Enumeratio plantarum Germaniae Helvetiaeque indigenarum. 1826 ( together with Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel )
  • Natural history of the plant kingdom in pictures. 1865; this is the 2nd edition of the part on the plant kingdom from the book " Textbook of Natural History" by God Help Heinrich von Schubert
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