Georg Heinrich Weber

Georg Heinrich Weber ( Georgius Henricus Weber ) (* July 27, 1752 in Göttingen, † July 25, 1828 in Kiel ) was a German physician and botanist. His botanical author abbreviation is " Weber".

Life

As the son of the philosopher Andreas Weber Weber studied medicine at the Georg -August- University of Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1774 for Dr. med. In 1777 he became prosector in Kiel and A.O. Professor of Medicine. In 1780 he was appointed full professor of medicine and botany.

The medical education in the Duchy of Holstein was deplorable until then. Weber taught in 1788 in the former suburb (Kiel ) on the Prüne a polyclinic one. The patients were treated at his home or in their own homes under its guidance of students. That same year, Weber was able with the help of foundations located in Kiel purchase a farm, on which he built a hospital. 1791 was so far completed that " 30 Ill probably twice as much can be accommodated in very comfortable and good and necessary in case ".

In addition, Weber put on the third Botanical Garden keel, both for teaching and for the recovery of the sick. Here learned both his son Friedrich Weber (1781-1823) and Daniel Matthias Heinrich Mohr botanical basics know. In 1799 he was physician to the Duke.

When his private clinic in 1802 taken over by the Senate and Kiel, Christian- Albrechts- University of Kiel, he was appointed director. The clinic existed until 1873 as an academic hospital.

In 1806 he received the title of council budget. In 1810 he was appointed director of the Schleswig-Holstein sanitary Collegium, and chief overseer of the combined hospitals and the Botanical Gardens. 1813/1814 he was rector of the CAU, Weber was among the first to recognize lichens as special forms of life.

The Weber Road in Kiel- parade ground is named after him.

His son George was a general practitioner in Kiel.

Writings

• Please to the Publicum for assistance to the hospital to be built in Kiel. , 1788.
• Commentatio Botanical Garden -medicating, sistens vires plantarum cryptogamicarum medicas. In 1778. Examines the naturopathic use of mosses and ferns.
• Spicilegium florae Göttingensis plantas Imprimis cryptogamicas hercyniae illustrans. ( Google books)
• Flora of Göttingen. 1778th An early recording of plant populations.
• Some experience of treating the current epidemic dysentery.
• About the Schleswig'schen gulls and Holstein 's swimming birds. In 1798.