Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer
Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer ( born January 1, 1791 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, † August 7, 1858 in Königsberg, East Prussia ) was a German botanist and director of the botanical garden in Königsberg. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " E.Mey. ".
Life
Ernst Meyer studied intermittently wars of liberation at the University of Göttingen Medicine, where he also completed his habilitation. During his years as a lecturer at the University of Göttingen Meyer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe met, who was in Göttingen and had great botanical interest. Meyer had previously given to recognize his correspondence with Goethe's theory of metamorphosis in the Gottingen scholar ads in a book review. It developed into a lively correspondence, who also continued to when Meyer was already a professor at the University of Königsberg. This led ultimately to the fact that Meyer appeared in two works by Goethe as an employee: he responded to an upside of Goethe problem and provided material for the effect of the doctrine of metamorphosis.
1826 Meyer was appointed as an associate professor in Königsberg, where he became a full professor in 1829. There he learned in 1841 the German Americans August Fendler ( 1813-1883 ), whom he charged with the collection of plants in the western United States. How Fendler is known from letters, the plant supplies remained to Königsberg albeit mostly unpaid.
According to him, among other things, the succulent " Brachystelma meyerianum " in the South African Cape Province and the plant species are " Eriochloa meyerianum " named.
Bibliography
- Synopsis Juncorum. 1822.
- Synopsis Luzularum. 1823.
- De plantis labradoricis. , 1830.
- Commentatorium de plantis Africae australioris .... From 1836 to 1838.
- Prussia plant genera. 1839.
- History of botany, Bornträger Verlag, Königsberg from 1854 to 1857. - Translation with a foreword by Frans Verdoorn: Verlag A. Asher, Amsterdam 1965.