Friedrich Adam Julius von Wangenheim

Friedrich Adam Julius von Wangenheim ( born February 8, 1749 Sonneborn, † March 25, 1800 in Gumbinnen ) was a German dendrologist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Wangenh. ".

Friedrich Adam Julius von Wangenheim was the son of Saxony- Gotha chamberlain. He first received military training in Gotha services, then took his leave, however, as a second lieutenant in order to be trained for Forstmann. When the Landgrave of Hesse -Kassel during the American Revolutionary War Marshaling an auxiliary corps for the British to Wangenheim joined this and went to North America in 1777. He participated in the battles at Brandywic and Charleston. In the eight years of his stay in America he pursued extensive forestry scientific studies.

His second book, published in 1787 devoted Wangenheim King Frederick William II of Prussia. Then he was in 1788 appointed chief forester of Lithuania 's War and Domain Chamber. After a serious illness in winter 1799, he died and was buried in the garden of his estate Lasdinehlen at Gumbinnen.

Wangenheim was an honorary member of the Society Nature Research- friends to Berlin. The plant genus in the family Araliaceae Wangenheimia was named after him.

Writings (selection )

• Description of some North American wood - and shrub species, with application to teutsche Forestry., 1781.
• Beytrag to teutschen wooden righteous forest science with application to teutsche Forestry concerning. , 1787.