Friedrich Kasimir Medikus

Friedrich Casimir Medicus, Friedrich Casimir Medicus, ( born January 6, 1736, in Grumbach, Rhineland -Palatinate, † July 15, 1808 in Mannheim, Germany ) was a German botanist, physician, and garden director. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Medik. ".

Life and work

Medicus studied in Tübingen, Strasbourg and Heidelberg. He worked as a doctor in Mannheim. Herzog Christian von Pfalz- Zweibrücken in 1764 appointed him councilor and court - Medicus. In 1766 he was involved in the application of the botanical garden. In 1769 he was Garnisonsphysikus in Mannheim.

Already in 1761 Medicus had been appointed to the Kurbayerischen Academy of Sciences in Munich. Around 1760 he became a member of the Electoral Maintzischen Academy of useful sciences in Erfurt; since 1762 he was a member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna, 1763 Kurpfälzische Academy of Sciences in Mannheim. In 1769 he became an honorary member of the physico -economic society in Kaiserslautern and a year later its director. As such, he heard also the co-founders of 1774 transferred into state custody Kameral High School in Kaiserslautern. He also took over the management and remained in this position even after the relocation of the College to Heidelberg.

Medicus was Director garden in Schwetzingen and Mannheim. Its botanical garden in 1795 and 1799 severely damaged in bombing of Mannheim; shortly after his death in 1808 he was resolved. As a botanist, he was an opponent of Carl Linnaeus biological systematics and rather supported the botanical systematics of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, but this was eventually supplanted by Linnaeus' system.

Friedrich Casimir Medicus was acquainted with the Palatinate Minister Peter Emanuel of Zedtwitz, as his family doctor, he also acted.

Writings

Medicus has published many works on medicine, botany, horticulture and forestry botany. His most famous work of garden art is contributions to the art of beautiful garden in 1782.

Selection of his works on medical subjects:

  • History of periodic diseases. Karlsruhe in 1764.
  • Letters to the Hern I.G. Zimmermann, some experience from the Arzneywissenschaft. Mannheim in 1766.
  • Sur les rechûtes et sur ​​la contagion de la petite vérole, deux lettres de M. Medicus, ... à M. Petit. Mannheim 1767th
  • Collection of observations from the Arzneywissenschaft. Zurich 1764-1766, new edition 1776.

Selection of his works on botany, forestry, botany and horticulture:

  • Botanical observations. Mannheim 1780-1784 (online).
  • Contributions to the beautiful garden art. Mannheim 1782 (online). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43565
  • About some artificial gender of the mallow family, for the class of Mona Delphien. Mannheim 1787 (online).
  • Historia et Commentationes Academiae Scientiarum et Electoralis Elegantiorum Literarum Theodoro - Palatinae. , 1790.
  • Plant species formed after the epitome of all Fruktifications - part ... with critical remarks. Mannheim 1792 (online). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.7570
  • About North American trees and shrubs, as objects of German forest husbandry and the beautiful garden art. Mannheim 1792.
  • Critische comments on items from the vegetable kingdom. Mannheim 1793 (online).
  • Botanical history of our times. Mannheim 1793 (online).
  • Unächter acacia - tree, to encourage the general cultivation of this one in their Species. Leipzig 1794-1798 ( four volumes, online).
  • About the true principles of Futterbaues. Leipzig, 1796.
  • Contributions in writing, to plant anatomy, plant physiology and a new characteristic of trees and shrubs. Leipzig from 1799 to 1800.
  • Emergence of sponges, vegetable Crystallisation. Leyde 1803.
  • Reproduction of plants by exam. Leyde 1803 ( online).
  • Contributions to the culture of exotic plants. Leipzig 1806.

Works on other topics:

  • From the construction of coal. Mannheim 1768 (online).
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