Georg Christian Oeder

Georg Christian von Oeder ( born February 3, 1728 in Ansbach, † January 28, 1791 in Oldenburg ( Oldenburg) ) was a German botanist, physician, and social reformer. Particularly well known he was as editor of the Flora Danica. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Oeder ".

Life and work

Oeder was the son of the rector Ansbacher and later pastor in damp cheeks Georg Ludwig Oeder ( 1694-1760 ). He studied medicine and settled after completing his PhD at the University of Göttingen, first as a doctor in Schleswig down. As a 23- year-old he was appointed by Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff to Copenhagen. A job at the University failed because of the resistance of the professors. So Oeder received a royal professorship and led from 1752 to the scale of his new botanical garden where useful and medicinal plants should be grown, including for the pharmacy of the Frederiksberg Hospital.

In 1753 he began the project of Flora Danica, a monumental botanical Atlas of the flora of Denmark, Norway and Iceland, with the publication of which he started in 1761. Motivation and purpose of this work was to emphasize the importance of the scale of his botanical garden and out to emphasize. In the wake of the fall of the German Johann Friedrich Struensee Oeder 1771 lost his position in Copenhagen and went as proconsul to Oldenburg. His Flora Danica was continued by other publishers.

However oeder was active not only as a botanist. His social reform petition: concerns about the question: How the peasantry liberty and property in the countries where it is wanting beydes, could be verschaffet? of 1769 became a milestone in the liberation of the peasants.

Two years before his death he acquired by Emperor Joseph II a patent of nobility. Oeders grave saying on the Gertrude Cemetery in Oldenburg summarizes his activities together:

" Daniens flowers and herbs collected ' and he wove the permanent crown. Sichre care to thank the widows him. Him bless the Danish compatriot, which became his bold reputation first messenger of freedom. "

Ehrentaxa

The plant genus Oedera L. was named after him. In addition, several plant species were named after him: The Colorful lice herb got it in honor of Martin Vahl the scientific name Pedicularis oederi. Carex oederi refers to a yellow - sedge type, Bartramia oederi Bartramiaceae a - kind, and Plagiopus oederi is a Krummfußmoos.

Works

• Called message from the output of a work, Flora Danica, with a sample plate of the plant: Rubus chamaemorus. Copenhagen: Philibert 1761
• Elementa Botanicae. / Introduction to the herbal knowledge part 2 volumes in one band. Copenhagen: Philibert 1764-66. With 14 copperplates
• Nomenclator botanicus for the use of the bey Flora Danica. Copenhagen: Heineck and Faber, 1769
• Directory for the Flora Danica associated, in the kingdoms Dännemark and Norway, in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, and in the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst wild herbs Copenhagen 1770
• Concerns about the question: How the peasantry liberty and property in the countries where it is wanting beydes, could be verschaffet? Leipzig and Frankfurt 1769

This:

• Concerns and additives; launched anew, together with supplements. Altona, 1786.