Christian Knaut

Christian Knaut, sometimes Christian Knauth ( born August 16, 1656 in Halle ( Saale), † April 11, 1716 ) was a German physician, botanist and librarian. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Knaut ".

Life

Christian Knaut was the son of Christopher and his wife Barbara Knaut Viervegen. Christian's 18 years older brother was Christopher Knaut ( 1638-1694 ), also a physician and botanist in Halle.

Christian Halle attended the grammar school at Rector Valentin Berger. In 1676 he started on the advice of his brother to study medicine at the University of Leipzig, where he was specially trained by Professors Gottfried Welsch, Paul Ammann, Michael Ettmüller and John Bohn. In the latter, he made a first working SOMNO et de Vigilis ( from sleeping and waking ) to. His dissertation was in Jena with Rudolf Wilhelm Crause Mellingen (1642-1718) and had the title de fermentatione in sanguine non -existent. With this work, he became in 1682 a doctorate in Jena as a doctor of medicine. On his return to Halle, he became the personal physician of Prince Emanuel Lebrecht of Anhalt- Köthen and librarian of the city hall. In this capacity, he wrote a chronicle of 1698 and description of the Thuringian counties Ballstädt and Aschersleben. As a botanist Knaut is known for his book Compendium botanicum sive Methodus plantarum genuina in which he proposed a classification of flowering plants according to the number and arrangement of the petals.

Works

  • Antiquitates Comitatus Ballenstadiensis Et Ascaniensis Or Thorough and detailed description of the beyden Uhralten North Thuringischen Graff managed Ballstädt and Aschersleben. Köthen, 1698th
  • Thorough Fürstellung of several in Hn. John Christian. Beckmann's PP newly gone out of the principality of Anhalt Historia befindlicher again Anhalt Cöthensche Hauß committed Genealogical and historical errors. Hall, 1710.
  • Compendium botanicum sive Methodus plantarum genuina, qua notae characteris ticae seu differentiae gene ricae tam quam summae subalternae ordine et digeruntur by tabulas quas vocant synopticas perspicue delineantur; in Gratiam studiosae juventutis adornata atque edita. Leipzig and Halle 1718.

Ehrentaxon

Carl Linnaeus named the plant genus of the widow flowers in honor of Christian and Christoph Knaut with the scientific name knautia.

Swell

  • Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Biography médicale. Volume 5, Paris, 1822.
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