Heinrich Gustav Flörke

Heinrich Gustav Flörke, actually Gustav Floerke ( born December 24, 1764 in Altkalen; † November 6, 1835 in Rostock ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, physician and botanist. His botanical author abbreviation is " Flörke ".

Life

Heinrich Gustav Flörke was the third son of Praepositus ( Leopold Friedrich) Flörke Conrad ( 1729-1787 ) and his wife, the pastor's daughter Christiane Auguste, née Schmidt ( * 1735). Flörke grew up in a strict Pietist household in the county of (at least) eight (half - ) siblings. The lawyer and composer Friedrich Jakob Flörke (1758-1799) and the theologian, educator and writer Ernst Flörke (1767-1830) were his brothers, the teacher Flörke Albrecht (1777-1848) his half-brother from the second marriage of the father.

Flörke attended from 1772 to 1775, the city school in Biitzow. In 1782 he began the study of Protestant theology at the University Biitzow and was exempt from paying the registration fee due to the merits of the Father. In 1784 he is detectable as Stammbucheinträger in Rostock. After completing his studies, he worked as a private tutor and tutor for Gustav Dietrich von Oertzen on kitten village, whom he accompanied to the Universities of Göttingen and Rostock. 1790 is a Rostock studbook entry of the stud. Schmidt / from Oertzen / Pauli / Floerke / Schroeder / von Blücher / contactor country team performance of joined with break point and two crossed bats and the Vandals circle an early proof of the existence of vandals compounds as precursors of the Corps. Above the entry, the first letter are the words of the Vandals choice award Our flag, so bloody red, admonishes us never to fear death! In 1794 he received the appointment as pastor in Kitten village. He laid on April 17, 1797 his office, " because he could not cope well with the belief in the symbolic books of our Church."

Then he went to study medicine and botany at the University of Jena and undertook botanical walks through Germany. In Berlin he was librarian of the Society Nature Research- friends to Berlin and a member of the Literary Society tunnel over the river Spree. From 1800 to 1813 he was responsible for the death of his brother's publishing volumes 78-123 of Oeconomischen encyclopedia.

In 1816 he was appointed as the successor of Ludolph Christian Treviranus professor of botany and natural history in Rostock and 1817 Masters. 1827/28 he was Rector of the University and several times Dean of the Philosophical Faculty. He may bring an extensive correspondence with Heinrich Julius death and was the founder in 1819 of the Philomathischen society in Rostock. Since 1820 he was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. The Mecklenburg Patriotic Association, the Secretary-General, he was a follower of Lorenz Karsten since 1830, made ​​him an honorary member.

His specialty was the lichen customer ( Lichenology ), where he was a leader.

Ehrentaxa

• Genus Floerkea the Limnanthaceae
• Phascum floerkeanum
• Microbryum floerkeanum

Works

• Description of the German dust lichens. 1807
• Repertory of the newest and Wissenswürdigsten from the entire natural history. 5 volumes, 1811-1813
• Systematic German lichens Collection. 1st - 6th Delivery, 1812-1819
• German lichens collected and annotated. 1815 ( digitized )
• (Ed. ) New Annals of the Mecklenburg Agricultural Society. 1820-1831
• Conversations from the domain of natural science. 12 volumes, 1820-1825
• About the condition of the serfs in Mecklenburg. In: " New Gallery of Charlatanerien " 1803
• Formed about the imperfection of the Low German language and desiring to utter banishment of this dialect, at least in the circles of Being intentioned people. 1825
• De Cladoniis, deffallimo lichenum genere, Commentatio nova. 1828
• About the superstition. 1832