Ernst Ferdinand Nolte
Ernst Ferdinand Nolte ( born December 24, 1791 in Hamburg, † February 18, 1875 in Kiel ) was a German botanist who worked on the flora of Schleswig-Holstein and many contributions to the Flora Danica delivered. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Nolte ".
Life
After private lessons in Hamburg Nolte came with 18 years of Schwerin, to be prepared by Hofmedicus Johann David Wilhelm axis through instruction in the ancient languages and the natural sciences at a university. Here awoke Nolte's tendency to botany, which he promoted through numerous botanical excursions. To avoid being drafted into the French army, he eventually fled to Goslar, where he performed as an apprentice with the pharmacist brown wooden one, before he enrolled at the University of Göttingen in autumn 1813. He studied medicine, but drove next to it as eagerly Botany, where he used the acquaintance of men like Wallroth, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Wahlberg, Lehmann and Schouw.
Regular field trips led him through the vastness of northern Germany. Lauenburg, whose best Florist he later became, he seems to have traveled in 1815 as the first. 1817 Nolte received his doctorate for Dr. med and continued his education at the Charité in Berlin continued. He botanized together with Schlechtendal. In the fall of 1818, he left Berlin and went, after a short stint as assistant to the botanist Meyer in Goettingen, in summer 1820 to Ratzeburg to his family. When staying at the adjacent Mölln Nolte met the Copenhagen professor of botany, Jens Wilken Hornemann know who was editor of the Flora Danica.
Nolte was one of his employees, the floristic explored with the support of the Danish Government 1821-1823 Lauenburg and the Elbherzogtümer. 1824 moved Nolte on Horne 's request with its plants treasures and experiences to Copenhagen. A year later, his first work appeared Botanical observations on Stratiotes and Sagittaria, which was awarded by the Society for Science in Copenhagen with the silver medal. Nolte represents mainly the propagation of the plants on vegetative and generative way and are advanced for its time representation of their geographical distribution. Nolte explored Zealand, Funen, Jutland and the island groups on both coasts of Schleswig-Holstein mainland.
In the summer of 1826 he was appointed professor of botany in Kiel and became director of the botanical garden of Kiel. His most famous student is the explorer of the flora of Australia, Ferdinand von Mueller. Nolte took from Kiel researching the flora of Elbherzogtümer Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg strengthened in attack and became friends with the Hamburg botanist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, from whom he received support. His work for the Flora Danica in 1840 he presented a whole. The Botanical Garden in Kiel took under his leadership a strong upturn, installation and enlargement of the Universitätsherbariums was particularly close to his heart.
1860 his wife died, daughter of the physicist Pfaff, which allowed him to a broken state. His eyesight declined rapidly; paralysis of the right hand gave him the writing difficult and a fierce bronchitis which befell him in 1864, increased his infirmity. At first he sought to cure relief, which led him to Switzerland, Bavaria and Austria. In 1873 he was retired.
Honors
In honor of Nolte named Jens Wilken Hornemann in the seagrass Zostera noltii a Flora Danica. , Which was incorporated into the genus Nanozostera 2001 .. Henry E. Weber called 1972 ( publ. 1973), a blackberry Rubus noltei. 1864 Nolte was elected a member of the Leopoldina.
Writings (selection )
- Botanical observations on Stratiotes and Sagittaria. Hartwig Frideric Popp, Copenhagen 1825.
- Primitiae florae Holsaticae. Suppl 2: Novitiae florae Holsaticae: immersive supplementum alterum Primitiorum Holsaticae GH weberi. Kiel 1826 Online.