Christian Friedrich Hornschuch

Christian Friedrich Horn Schuch ( born August 21, 1793 in Unterrodach, † December 24, 1850 in Greifswald ) was a German botanist, Bryologe and natural philosopher. Focus of his work was the study of mosses. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Hornsch. "

Life

The son of a pharmacist attended school in Unterrodach. After the death of his father in 1808 he began an apprenticeship in the Hofapotheke in Bartenstein in Hildburghausen, where he persistently dealt with botany and chemistry. In 1813 he went to Regensburg, where he became an assistant of David Heinrich Hoppe and botanized under whose guidance. In Hoppe's recommendation he went then as an assistant to Heinrich Christian Funck after Gefrees. There he worked intensively with the mosses of the Fichtelgebirge and next with chemistry, mineralogy and entomology. In 1816 he toured with Hoppe the coasts of the Adriatic. After a layover in Coburg in 1817, he traveled with Hoppe via Salzburg to Tyrol and Carinthia.

In 1818 he attended the University of Greifswald a job as a " demonstrator botanices " to. In 1819 he spent three months in Berlin, where he met with Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, Christoph Friedrich Otto, Heinrich Friedrich Link, Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal. He commanded the left by Carl Ludwig Willdenow Moosherbarium. Then he traveled with Jöns Jakob Berzelius to Skåne, where he undertook research trips with Carl Adolph Agardh of Lund University.

In 1820 he became an associate professor of natural history and botany at the University of Greifswald. At the same time he took over the management of the botanical garden, which was expanded significantly under him, and the newly founded zoological museum. In 1823 he undertook a research trip that took him from Switzerland, France, the Netherlands and Hamburg. He was in 1827 appointed professor by royal cabinet order. In 1830 he received an honorary doctorate in medicine. In 1831 he taught natural history in the medical-surgical educational institution. The directorship of the Academy he took over in 1836. During the same year he was appointed Knight of the Swedish Wasaordens and awarded the Prussian Red Eagle Order.

Writings

Hornschuch was with Hoppe and Nees von Esenbeck out the botanical journal " Flora", in which he reported on his findings. With Nees and Jacob Sturm, he published the " Bryologia Germanica " ( 1823-1831 ). He translated several Danish and Swedish work and gave out the archive of Scandinavian contributions to natural history (1847 ). Other writings were:

• Diary on a trip to the shores of the Adriatic Sea. In 1818.
• De Voitia et Systolio. novis muscorum frondosorum generibus. In 1818.
• Some observations about the development and metamorphosis of the lower vegetable organisms. In: Flora, 1819