Johann Friedrich Klotzsch

Johann Friedrich Klotzsch ( born June 9, 1805 in Wittenberg, † November 5, 1860 in Berlin) was a German botanist, pharmacist and physician. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Klotzsch ".

Life

After Klotzsch had visited in his home town school and had enjoyed private tuition, he started with 14 years of training as a pharmacist in Duben. To continue its pharmacological and botanical studies, he went to Berlin and worked from 1830 to 1832 at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Here he was entrusted by William Jackson Hooker with overseeing its herbarium, and could learn a lot from this. In 1832 he went to Berlin, engaged in medical studies and was appointed in 1834 to the Royal Herbarium in Berlin as assistant to the then conductor.

He ordered and certain during this time especially mushrooms. From trips to Saxony, Bohemia, Austria, Styria and Hungary, he brought with plants and enriched the collection. After his doctorate, he moved in 1838 as curator of the Botanical Museum Berlin, and thus as the head of the same after. In 1851 he became a full member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences and a few weeks before his death on September 13, 1860 Adjunct Professor.

He wrote numerous articles and monographic treatments of various plants and plant families. He was active in applied botany. In addition, he has published other works, this continued and supports various authors of articles in books. Klotzsch has contributed to much of his time to the advancement of the Botanical Museum Berlin.

According to him, the plant genus Klotzschia Cham was. et Schltdl. named from the carrot family ( Apiaceae ).

Works (selection)

  • Mycological corrections to the posthumous collection Sowerbyschen as one of the few existing in the Linnaean Herbarium mushrooms along with installation of some foreign genera and species in Linnaea 7 pp. 193-203 (1832 )
  • Herbarium vivum mycologicum sistens fungorum by totam Germaniam crescentium collectionem perfectam (1832 )
  • Plant pictures and descriptions to the knowledge officineller plants, 1838-1839
  • The botanical results of the journey ... of Prince Waldemar of Prussia in the years 1845 and 1846, 1862
  • Begoniaceen genera and species, 1854
  • Pistia, 1852
  • Plant hybrids and mongrels, and their practical application, 1854
  • Philipp Schönleins botanical discount on Cap Palmas, 1856
  • The Aristolochiaceae the Berlin herbarium, 1859
  • Linne 's natural plant class Tricoccae the Berlin herbarium in general and in particular Euphorbiacae, 1859
  • Heinrich Friedrich Link and Christoph Friedrich Otto: Icones plantarum horti rariorum Regii Botanici Berolinensis - rare plants pictures of the Royal Botanical Garden in Berlin, 2 vols. Volume 1: Veit and Co. Berlin in 1841 and Volume 2: Nicolaische bookstore, Berlin 1844 as pdf. Http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008604249.

Swell

  • Robert Zander, Fritz Encke, Günther Buchheim, Siegmund Seybold (eds.): Handbook of Plant Names. 13th edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-8001-5042-5.
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