Johann Wilhelm Weinmann

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann ( born March 13, 1683 Gardelegen, † 1741) was a German pharmacist and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " JWWeinm. ".

Life

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann came on 13 March 1683 Gardelegen the son of the hairdresser Matthias Christian Weinmann world. He was educated probably in Hamburg. In 1710 he settled in Regensburg and worked as an assistant pharmacist. Already in 1712 he started his own business with the purchase of a bankrupt pharmacy.

The business flourished and well within the city administration, he took over the years, various influential post a. Therefore, he could himself to his passion, botany, and turn to his own small botanical garden to create. This is 1722 over 9000 species have included and provided the natural templates for his four - volume work Phytanthoza iconographia that originated from 1737 to 1745.

Ehrentaxon

Carl Linnaeus named after him, the plant genus of the family of Weinmannia Cunoniaceae.

Works

  • Catalogus Alphabetico ordine exhibens Pharmaca ... (1723 )
  • Phytanthoza iconographia (1737-1745)
  • In the Breslau collections he published small works on aloe, water hemlock, coffee and tulip tree.

Swell

  • Http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/author.asp?creator=Weinmann, Johann Wilhelm&creatorID=60
  • Blunt, Wilfrid, The Art of Botanical Illustration: An Illustrated History. Dover Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-486-27265-6
  • Rowley, Gordon Douglas, A History of Succulent Plants. Strawberry Press, 1997. ISBN 0-912647-16-0 ( ISBN formally wrong )
  • Botanist (18th century)
  • Name to a genus
  • German
  • Born in 1683
  • Died in 1741
  • Man
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