Georg August Pritzel

Georg August Pritzel ( born September 2, 1815 in Carolath in Silesia (today Siedlisko ), † June 14, 1874 in Horn Home in Kiel ) was a German librarian and botanical writer. His botanical author abbreviation is " injection. ".

Life and work

Pritzel came from a poor family. He studied in Breslau he graduated with the thesis Anemonarum revisionist, which appeared in the journal Linnaea 1841. Then Pritzel moved to Berlin in the hope to find there a his skills appropriate action. But until 1851 he was able to enter as a laborer in the Royal Library and later became curator. From 1855 he also held the office of Archivist of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. Pritzel suffered from a spinal cord disease that increasingly embittered his mood, until he died at the age of 59 years.

Pritzel 's main work is his first published 1851 Bibliography Thesaurus litteraturae Botanicae omnium millia operum recensens the botanical literature from its origins in ancient times up to his time. To collection of the works he visited except the German libraries also Vienna, Geneva, London and Paris, and registered against 40000 botanical works. 1855-1866 he published his extensive work Iconum Botanicarum locupletissimus index with an alphabetical collection of pictures to flowering plants and ferns of the botanical and garden literature of the 18th and 19th centuries. Posthumously published in 1884 the work of the common names of the German plants, in which 24,000 plant names are given.

The plant genus Pritzelago from the family of cruciferous plants ( Brassicaceae) is named after him.

Works (selection)

• Thesaurus litteraturae Botanicae omnium millia operum recensens, 1851
• Iconum Botanicarum index locupletissimus, 1855-1866
• The popular name of the German plants (along with CFW Jessen ), 1884