August Friedrich Schweigger
August Friedrich Schweigger ( born September 8, 1783 in Erlangen, † June 28, 1821 in Agrigento, Sicily ) was a German naturalist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Schweigg. ". He was named after his godfather August Friedrich Pfeiffer.
Life and work
Schweigger came from a family of scholars viewed and was the brother of Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger. He studied medicine, botany and zoology, first at the University of Erlangen, Germany, at the University of Halle, 1804 in Berlin and 1806 in Paris. Here he was with the botanist Jussieu and mineralogists Hauy. He became in 1809 professor of botany and medicine at the University of Königsberg. His works were preferably the creation of a plant system on a natural basis, which he strove rather one-sided account only used externally characteristics through a comparative anatomical and physiological analysis of the individual plant body to win. As a zoologist is Schweigger proven by his studies of the turtle and also presented to anatomical- physiological studies on the coral that he included his "Reflections on the Natural History Travel " (1819 ). Having also been rector of the Alma Mater in the winter semester 1819/20 was he undertook a research trip to Sicily., 1821 he was assassinated during a field trip to the Grotta affumata, by a greedy leaders.
Ehrentaxon
He was the genus Schweiggeria explosive honor. the plant family of Violet Family ( Violaceae ) named.
Works
- Specimen flora erlangensis. 1805
- Health and institutions for the poor in Paris. Bayreuth: Lübeck, 1809
- Prodromus monographiae Cheloniorum. Konigsberg archive. Naturwiss. Math 1:271-368, 406-468.
- Observations on natural history trips. Berlin, 1819
- Manual of the natural history of skeletal loose unstructured animals. Leipzig, 1820
- De plantarum classificatione naturalis. 1821