Josef Aloys Frölich

Josef Alois von Frölich [ also: Josephus Aloysius Froelich; in Meyers encyclopedia falsely Johann Aloys of Froelich ] ( born March 10, 1766 Oberdorf im Allgäu, † March 11, 1841 in Ellwangen ( Jagst) ) was a German physician, botanist, entomologist, naturalist, Catholic lay brother and Württemberg Hofmedizinalrat. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Froel. ".

Life and work

He finished his 1784 Gymnaialstudien today Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich.

Already during his studies in Ingolstadt, Erlangen and Vienna combined Alois von Frölich medicine and botany. So he laid his 1796 medical thesis in Erlangen with the unusual for this faculty on " De Gentiana dissertatio " ( About the gentians ) ago. She made him internationally known.

To get there to organize the health care according to the then current state of medicine new, called Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony Frölich 1797, the " Farm-, City-and Landschaftsphysikus " to the former Ellwanger Friedrich University, which was built in 1817 at the University of Tübingen incorporated. After the secularization Frölich was taken into the service of the small state Neuwürttemberg.

In his spare time Frölich drove natural history, especially botanical research, which soon made ​​him known in scientific experts. Contributed to its reputation among other publications on the genus Crepis ( Pippau ) and Hieracium ( hawkweed ) in the year 1838. He was an excellent Moose expert and lay, both from our own collections made (especially in East Württemberg, but also in the Allgäu and in Austria ), as well as through exchange with other botanists, an extensive herbarium at. Many new records of spore - like of flowering plants of the areas mentioned come from him.

By exchanging some plants reached his herbarium, for example, in the herbaria Johann Christian Daniel Schreber from (1739-1810) and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarinis (1797-1848), now preserved in the State Botanical Collection in the Botanical Garden Munich ( Herbarnummern Z 1813 or Z 1849). The Botany Professor Hugo von Mohl (1805-1872), founder of the first Faculty of Science of Germany in Tübingen, Frölich has referred to as his spiritual mentor. Mohl earned by Frolich death parts whose herbarium, which are among the oldest records in today Tübingen Herbarium. Other parts bought from Constance pharmacist and botanist Franz Xaver August Leiner (1804-1846) for his collection. Those contributed significantly to the foundation of the botanical collection at the University of Konstanz. The Leiner herbarium is now in the Natural History Museum in Lake Constance Konstanz Sea Life Centre.

Named after Frölich is the plant genus Froelichia from the family of Amaranthaceae. Frölich counts for his work on intestinal worms of the founders of Helminthology. In parasitology, he delivered many first descriptions and introduced the class of Linguatulidae on.

Trivia

Frölich, was used as the father of an illegitimate child of Jérôme Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon, when it was held after the battle of Waterloo with his wife from his second marriage, Princess Catherine of Württemberg, in Ellwangen Castle caught.

Writings

( not exhaustive)

  • De Gentiana libellus sistens specierum cognitarum descriptiones cum observationibus. Accedit tabula Aenea Erlangen: Walther, 1796 [Title also: De Gentiana, Erlangen: Kunstmann; De Gentiana dissertatio; Dissertatio de inauguralis Gentiana ], at the same time: Erlangen, Med Diss, January 1796
  • Descriptions of some new intestinal worms, in: The naturalist, 24, pp. 101-162, Halle, 1789
  • Remarks on some rare beetles in the insect collection of Mr. HOFR. and Prof. Rudolph in Erlangen, in: The naturalist, 26, pp. 68-165, Halle, 1792.

Secondary literature

  • H. Wolf: Josef Aloys Frölich (1766-1841) and the flora of East Württemberg. In: restoration and cataloging of herbarium Leiner in Konstanz ( reports of the Working Community Botanic West Germany, Supplement 1 ), pp. 81-148, Karlsruhe 2004, ISSN 1617-5506
  • W. Lippert: Josef Aloys Frölich and the flora of the Allgäu. In: restoration and cataloging of herbarium Leiner in Konstanz ( reports of the Working Community Botanic West Germany, Supplement 1 ), pp. 149-159, Karlsruhe 2004, ISSN 1617-5506
  • Karl Otto Müller: Alois Frölich: physician and naturalist 1766-1841. In: Swabian life images. 1, pp. 203-207, coal hammer, Stuttgart 1940
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