Johannes Hildebrandt
Johann Maria Hildebrandt ( born March 19, 1847 in Dusseldorf, † May 29 1881 in Antananarivo, Madagascar Kingdom ) was a German botanist and explorer. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Hildebrandt ".
Life and work
Hildebrandt was the son of Theodor Hildebrandt. He devoted himself to mechanical engineering. Since he had lost his right eye due to an explosion, he turned to the nursery. He worked in the botanical garden shed as well as the Botanical Garden Berlin.
In 1872 he went to Africa, visited Egypt and following Werner Munzinger expedition Abyssinia, and also the Danakilländer and on two expeditions Somalländer.
After returning from a holiday trip to the East Indies, he explored Zanzibar and the opposite coast, and he also undertook a third expedition to the Somalland.
In 1874 he returned to Europe, but went the following year again to Africa to research by the Comorian island of Johanna.
An attempt to reach Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, failed in 1875; but he came to Kenya in 1877 close to three days' march.
With rich yield, but very weakened by fever, Hildebrandt returned home in November 1877, and lived until 1879 in Berlin.
Then he went to Madagascar. On a first expedition he gathered secure messages over the end of Christian Rods mountain. In Madagascar, in 1878 he discovered an unknown species of palm, the Bismarck palm ( Bismarckia nobilis), which he named after the founder of Empire Otto von Bismarck. 1880, but recovered from repeated illness, he joined a trip to the interior of the island.
From there he went to the east to the forest mountains, then undertook an expedition into the Ankaratragebirge and turned, and from there by heavy rain sold, according to Südbetsileo. Hardly returned to Antananarivo, he died there on 29 May 1881. His reports he published in the Journal of the Geographical Society.
After Johann Maria Hildebrandt named species
After Johann Maria Hildebrandt some animal and plant species are named, including the Hildebrandt - Starling and Hildebrandt 's Francolin.