Friedrich Alefeld
Friedrich Georg Christoph Alefeld, called Lechdring Lechdringhausen ( born October 21, 1820 Gräfenhausen, † April 28, 1872 in Ober- Ramstadt ) was a German physician and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Aleph. ". According to him, a street in upper -Ramstadt is named.
Life
Friedrich Alefeld was born the son of a Church Council. He went to high school in Worms and Darmstadt, before moving in 1839 to the University of Giessen. From 1840 to 1842 he studied at Heidelberg, where he turned to the natural sciences. In 1843 he received his doctorate in Giessen. After a six-month practical training at the Julius Hospital in Würzburg, he settled as a physician near Darmstadt: from spring 1844 in Lower River Vltava and from 1847 in Ober- Ramstadt. He died there on 28 April 1872.
Work
His scientific activity is mainly aimed at the systematic processing of German crops and their systematics. He focused particularly on individual plant species from the families of the Leguminosae and Malvaceae. Apart from a series of treatises in the former German botanical magazines, he also wrote a book about the effects of herbal baths on health.
Works
A selection of his numerous writings:
- Landwirthschaftliche flora. The usable or cultured virten garden and field plants of Central Europe 's in all their wild and cultivars for agriculturists, Gartner, garden lovers and botanists in particular for landwirthschaftliche schools. Berlin, Wiegandt & Hempel, 1866.
- Broad Phytobalneologie; or, The doctrine of the herbal baths. Neuwied, Heuser, 1863.
- The Bee Flora of Germany and Switzerland. Neuwied, Heuser, 1863.