Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg
Henry Muhlenberg, fully God Help Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, Henry Ernest Muhlenberg, (* November 17, 1753 in Trappe, Pennsylvania, † May 23 1815 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) was an American Lutheran theologian and naturalist. His botanical author abbreviation is " Muhl. ".
Life
God Help (Henry Ernest ) Muhlenberg was one of the sons of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. Frederick Muhlenberg and John Peter Muhlenberg were his brothers. Henry was in 1763 sent from America to the Francke Foundations in Halle (then Glauchasche institutions) for education. He attended from 1763 to 1769, the Latina and began in 1769 to study theology at the University of Halle, returned back to America in 1770 and was ordained as a pastor. Until 1785, he was a pastor at Holy Trinity Church in Lancaster. In 1787 he was co-founder and first president of Franklin College, now the University of Georgia and was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 1791. In addition, he was in correspondence with worldwide naturalists such as Alexander von Humboldt and was designated because of its systematic studies as " American Linnaeus ". He discovered a spread in Mexico and the southwestern United States grass species of the subfamily Chloridoideae that Muhlenbergia.
Honors
Numerous plant species in his honor muhlenbergii the Art epithet. The Art of the epithet he discovered bog turtle ( Glyptemys muhlenbergii ) was named after him as well.
Writings
- English - German and German - English dictionary: with a German grammar and principles of pronounciation FOR BOTH languages . Lancaster: Hamilton 1812 (2 volumes)
- Catalogus plantarum Americae septentrionalis, usque cognitarum indigenarum et cicurum huc: Or, A catalog of the hitherto known native and naturalized plants of North America. Lancaster: Hamilton 1813 ( digitized )