Georg Fresenius

Johann Baptist Georg Wolfgang Fresenius ( born September 25, 1808 in Frankfurt am Main, † December 1, 1866 ) was a German physician and botanist specializing in algae. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Fresen. ".

Life

As of 1826, Fresenius studied medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg, Würzburg and Giessen, Giessen PhD in 1829 and settled in Frankfurt as a practical physician, which he remained until his death, even despite all the sideline. But Botany remained his hobby that he had during school and later in Heidelberg years of study with his friend George Engelmann, the later German - American botanist operated.

Since 1831 he was Sektionär ( curator ) at the Botanical Garden of the Dr. Senckenberg Foundation and the " Herbarium Senckenbergianum " the Senckenberg Nature Research Society. He also lectured at the Medical Institute Senckenberg in Frankfurt am Main, where he was in 1863 appointed titular professor. It was he who directed the interest of his pupil, later physician and botanist Heinrich Anton de Bary, the study of algae and fungi, and the use of the microscope.

So held Fresenius, like the other Sektionäre the Dr. Senckenberg Foundation, before the Frankfurt University was founded in 1914 botanical lectures and organized excursions from. He was a member of the fraternity Germania Würzburg.

Ehrentaxon

He was the genus Fresenia DC in honor. plant sunflower family ( Asteraceae) named.

Writings

• Contributions to mycology, publishing HL Bronner, Frankfurt from 1850 to 1863.