Heinrich Christian Funck

Heinrich Christian Funck ( born November 22, 1771 in Wunsiedel, † April 14, 1839 in Gefrees ) was a German chemist, botanist and co-founder of rain Freiburgische Botanical Society. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Funck ".

Life

His mother, nee Schmidt from Wunsiedel, married to the chamber secretary Funck to St. John's at Bayreuth, Heinrich Christian gave birth after separating from her husband in her native city Wunsiedel. Already in the 80s of the 18th century, they married after Gefrees, the local pharmacist Daniel. Her son moved in with her ​​and after court order to visit shortly after high school.

He then went to Regensburg in the pharmacist teaching. There Arnulf length fur was his first teacher in the natural sciences. His botanical studies lead him to Salzburg in 1794 and 1798, after a stopover in Erlangen, to Jena. The date of his mother owned pharmacy in Gefrees took over the radio on 29 September 1803 from there he pursued his research further into the cryptogams customer and Bryology. First in lying on the doorstep Fichtelgebirge and later with further travel.

The offer to accept a professorship in Berlin would have meant to leave in 1821, the Fichtelgebirge, he refused it, saying:

"It's my paradise, go away would be a sin "

Mayor of Gefrees he was 13 years.

The pharmacy he sold in the 1830s and built a house with the intention to only science to dedicate. He suffered one year after completion of a stroke and died in 1839 after a Reapoplex.

Works

• Cryptogamic plants of the Fichtelgebirge. 17 booklets, Leipzig 1803-1808
• Germany Moose - a Pocket Herbarium for use in excursions. Pear, Bayreuth 1820