Georg Andreas Helwing

Georg Andreas Helwig (or Helwing; born December 14, 1666 Angerburg; † January 3, 1748 ) was a German Lutheran theologian and botanist.

Life

The son of the pastor Andreas Helwig († 1705), has been employed in the earliest years of life with herbs and attended the school of his native city. He moved to the city Löbenichtsche school in Königsberg and moved there in 1684 the University of Königsberg. He continued his studies in 1687 continued at the University of Wittenberg, then went to the University of Leipzig and at the University of Jena. In Jena he acquired on October 11, 1688 the academic degree of Master of Philosophy. He studied pharmacology at Georg Wolfgang Wedel and also teaches privately.

After his father's request he should, however, complete a theological degree. Therefore, he left Jena and began theological studies at the University of Erfurt continued. From here he went on an educational trip through Germany and Venice. He returned to Jena back, lectured and returned November 1691 as a substitute for his father in his hometown back. There he took over in 1705, the place of his father and in 1725 there provost and superintendent, which he took over the supervision of the Church's main offices Angerburg and Lötzen.

1738 his son George Aemilius Helwig, he was assigned as a substitute.

Helwig was married to Catherine, daughter of Andreas Coneius. The marriage produced five daughters and four sons were born.

Because of its experience in natural history, especially of herbs Science, he was called the Prussian Pliny and the Prussian Tournefort. On 31 August 1709, the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences took him on as a member.

Helwig has introduced and discovered different plant species. The genus Helwingia is named after him.

Works

  • Flora Quasimodogenita. Gedani. Leipzig 1713
  • Lithographia Angerburgica, P.I. Regiom. 1717, Leipzig 1720 passim
  • Flora Campana. Leipzig 1720
  • Supplementum Florae Prussicae. Danzig 1726

Manuscripts

  • Tournefortius Borussicus.
  • Lexicon lithologicarum latinum.
  • Lexicon latino - polonicum lapidum et Fossilium.
  • Index plantarum latino polloniucus.
  • Museum Helwingianum.
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