Joachim Christian Timm

Joachim Christian Timm ( born December 7, 1734 Wangerin, † February 3, 1805 in Malchin ) was Council pharmacist and mayor of Malchin.

Life

Joachim Christian Timm was born as the son of the tobacco moth and Chandler Matthias Ernst Timm (1704-1779) in Wangerin in Pomerania. He attended the school principal to Wangerin and started from Michaelis 1749 in his birthplace of a five-year apprenticeship with pharmacist Friedrich John, where he then worked as an assistant to one year. The wanderings led Timm in the 1750s to Mecklenburg. Until 1757 he conditioned the Rostock doctor and pharmacist Dr. Wolff, later at court apothecary Bracht in Rostock. End of the 1750s Timm finally came as provisor to Malchin pharmacist Georg Heinrich Kruger or his heirs. 1760 Timm Council pharmacist in Malchin. In 1771 he was elected Senator. At 1778 was Timm Second, in 1790 Mayor of Malchin. With his death ended in the city parliament altmecklenburgischen the tradition that at the same time more than one mayor to control the fate of the city.

As a pharmacist interested him even botany. He eagerly collected mainly in the area around Malchin plants of all kinds, especially also cryptogams. 1788 he published his work " Florae megapolitanae Prodromus ," which he had quite to his model, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus created. Professor Johannes Hedwig from Leipzig later named a genus cryptogams after him " Timmia " and especially one of him in Malchin (Mecklenburg) found moss " Timmia Megapolitana ". Megapolitana stands for the locality Mecklenburg. A mountain on the Arctic Ellesmere Iceland was named at the behest of Timmia mono Count Guy Brassard as "Mount Timmia " after him.

Joachim Christian Timm was married since 1762 with Anna Christine Elisabeth Witte ( 1743-1792 ), a merchant's daughter from Robel .. In marriage ten children were born, including the sons Joachim ( 1768-1801 ) and Hans Timm ( 1774-1852 ), sequentially as a pharmacist in Malchin Council began the successor of his father. Another son, Helmuth Timm (1782-1848), became a pastor in the United Gievitz, later in Malchin.

Joachim Christian Timm is now regarded as a pioneer of modern botany in Germany.