Carl Friedrich von Ledebour

Carl Friedrich Ledebour, from 1823 by Ledebour or from Ledebur ( born July 8, 1786 in Greifswald, † July 4, 1851 in Munich) was a German botanist, Professor and Imperial Russian State Council. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Ledeb. ".

Family

Ledebour the son of the Swedish Militärauditeurs Johann Ledebour was († 1785 ). He does not belong to the Westphalian noble family of Ledebur. His mother was Anna Maria Hagemann, since 1799 director of a girls' school in Barth. He married in 1815 Elizabeth of Mirbachstrasse ( 1786-1863 ), the daughter of the Starosta of Gitany and Owner of the Manor of Krussen Georg Christoph von Mirbach and his wife Christine Emerentia of Nolde. The couple had no children and adopted a daughter.

Life

Ledebour was named after the study of law and of natural history in 1805 professor of botany and director of the botanical garden of the University of Greifswald. From 1811 to 1836 he was Professor and Director of the Botanical Garden in Dorpat ( now Tartu in Estonia), which he himself einrichtete and brought to European glory.

His studies led Ledebour among other things to Russia, Siberia and Central Asia; from there he brought back numerous handmade color plates of the Russian flora. The study of the flora of the Russian Empire thanked him Tsar Alexander I in 1823 with the elevation to the peerage. After his retirement in 1836, he lived first in Odessa, then went to Heidelberg and Munich, where he died in 1851.

Two portraits of the botanist should be in the mail Feininger 's portrait collection of the city of Munich.

In his book Flora altaica Ledebour is the first description of species such as the Asiatic wild apple (Malus sieversii nor sieversii named by him as Pyrus ) and the Siberian larch (Larix sibirica ).

Honors

  • Imperial Russian State Council
  • Winner of several high Order

The plant genus Ledebouriella H. Wolff and the Globe Flower Trollius ledebourii are named after him.

Works

  • Flora altaica, 1829-1834, the first Flora description of the Altai Mountains; 4 volumes.
  • Icones plantarum Novarum vel imperfecte cognitarum Floram rossicam, Imprimis altaicam, illustrantes, 1829-1834; 5 volumes
  • Flora rossica, 1841-1853, 4 volumes; probably the first complete flora Description of the Russian Empire.
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