Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg

Johann Bernhard Wilhelm Lindenberg ( born September 18, 1781 Lübeck, † June 6, 1851 in Hamburg- Bergedorf (district ) ) was a German lawyer and botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Lindenb. ".

Life and work

Lindenberg visited the Katharineum to Lübeck and studied in Jena and Göttingen Jura. After graduation, he was a lawyer from 1806 in Lübeck. After the French occupation of Lübeck, he went to Hamburg, where he was a lawyer and after the end of the French occupation of the Executor Both Municipal Office in Bergedorf.

Besides his work as a lawyer and civil servant, he dealt with botany and was a leading authority for liverworts. His first publication was carried out by switching to the Director of the Botanical Garden in Hamburg Johann Georg Christian Lehmann 1821 in Linnaea. 1829 published a book on European liverworts ( Synopsis Hepaticarum europaearum adnexis observationibus et adnotationibus criticis illustrata ) and 1831 a monograph on star liverworts ( Riccien ). 1844 to 1847 he was involved in the publication of the great monograph on liverworts Synopsis Hepaticarum with Karl Moritz Gottsche and Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck. With Gottsche he also worked on a multi-volume species Hepaticarum ( treatment of liverworts by genus ), which appeared in 1839 and remained unfinished ( it published volumes to the genera Plagiochila, Lepidozia, Mastigobryum ).

The genus Lindenbergia in the family of broomrape family ( Orobanchaceae ) is named after him.

Writings

• Karl Moritz Gottsche, CG Nees van Esenbeck: Synopsis Hepaticarum, Hamburg, 5 parts, 1844-1847 ( doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.15221, online).
• With Gottsche: Species Hepaticarum. 11 issues, from 1839 to 1851.