Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz

Friedrich Wilhelm Schultz ( born January 3, 1804 in Zweibrücken, † December 30, 1876 in Wissembourg, Alsace ) was a German botanist and pharmacist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " FWSchultz ".

Life

After attending high school in Kusel FW Schultz learned the profession of pharmacy, worked in his father's pharmacy in Zweibrücken, then again in Kusel and studied from 1827 in Munich. After receiving his doctorate in 1829 in Tübingen and the exams in 1831 in Munich in 1832, he bought a pharmacy in Bitche (Lorraine ). From 1853 he lived in White Castle in Alsace.

Services

From 1836 to 1855 he published together with Paul Constantin Billot ( 1796-1863 ) the flora Galliae et Germaniae exsiccata, which was later continued as Archives de la Flore de France et d' Angleterre. More of his works are the flora of the Palatinate (1846 ). This is the content ( the arrangement of the families, the genus and specific characters ) to Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (* 1771 in Kusel ) ajar who guided the young Schultz as a freshman in botany. The flora of the Palatinate is, especially in the critical species, enriched by numerous personal observations of the author. Schultz is with special care and detail on the geographical distribution in the area, the site conditions and the geological underground. He drew comparison to its predecessor Palatine Hieronymus Bock, Johann Adam Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch and Pollich, who worked the area already in the three centuries before him. His descriptions of plants are considered to be accurate and detailed, which is why they are still of scientific value. His descriptions of the sites are also important because they document the landscape changes over the past 160 years.

In his garden he often drew critical species in large numbers in order to identify hidden sub-species or even new species can.

His younger brother Carl Heinrich Schultz, also known botanist and to better distinguish Schultz Bipontinus, founded in 1840 the nature-searching club Pollichia to Bad Durkheim. Both published in the first 25 years, the club was founded numerous contributions in the annual reports of this association (for example, supplements to "Flora of the Palatinate ").

Writings (selection )

• Flora of the Palatinate. Long, Speyer 1846 ( digitized ).
• Additions & corrections to my flora of the Palatinate. Kranzbühler, Neustadt an der Haardt 1859 ( digitized ).