Friedrich Adolph Wislizenus
Friedrich Adolph Wislizenus (also Frederick Adolph Wislizenus, born May 21, 1810 in King 's Lake, † September 23, 1889 in St. Louis, USA ) was an American physician and botanist of German descent. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " WISL. "
Life
Wislizenus ' father was a Protestant minister, he was born as the youngest of three children. After both parents died early, the children grew up with their mother's brother. He attended high school in Rudolstadt and should, following, studying his father theology. However, he first started at the University of Jena, and later in Göttingen and Tübingen a science degree. During his studies, he became in 1830 a member of the fraternity Jenaische Germania and 1831, the fraternity Amicitia Würzburg, Würzburg later fraternity Germania.
On April 3, 1833 Wislizenus was one of the participants of the Frankfurt Guard storm. After the uprising was put down, he managed to escape from Germany, first to Strasbourg, where he went to Zurich to get there in 1834 his title as a doctor of medicine.
He then emigrated to the United States to practice in 1835 in New York as a physician. After two years he moved to Mascoutah ( Ill.) and began with the gathering of plants. In St. Louis, where he lived in 1839, he made the acquaintance of George Engelmann and operational until 1846 jointly with this one doctor's office.
Wislizenus married in 1850 Lucy Crane, with he had several children. After many trips and expeditions, including his old home Königsee, to California and Panama, he sat down in 1852 in St. Louis to rest. He was a member of the Academy of Science of St. Louis and the Missouri Historical Society. Over time, his interest increased in atmospheric electricity, which he examined with then new methods. Towards the end of his life blind Wislizenus, however, did continue to read literature. After several years of blindness, he died on 23 September 1889 in the presence of his wife and children.
Writings
- Doi connected with Col. Doniphan 's expedition, in 1846 and 1847 Tippin & Streeper, Washington 1848: Memoir of a tour to northern Mexico. 10.5962/bhl.title.41509
- Memorandum on a trip to northern Mexico. F. Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1850, doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.41523 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.61210
- Poems. His friends in memory of his family. St. Louis ( MO) 1890 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.7778 (online).