Karl Koch (botanist)

Karl Heinrich Emil Koch ( born June 6 1809 in Ettersburg at Weimar; † May 25, 1879 in Berlin) was a German botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " K.Koch "; earlier was also the abbreviation " C. Koch " in use.

Life and work

Koch studied from 1829 to 1831 in Jena medicine, then to 1833 in Würzburg, Botany. After Dr. phil. and Dr. med had become, he took a position as lecturer at Jena, and in 1836 was appointed extraordinary professor.

In 1843 he broke with the linguist Georg Rosen junior on a journey to the Caucasus, from which he returned in 1844 to Jena.

1847 piloted cooking with his family to Berlin, in full hope of a botanical career, but first only with a by the Prussian king promised for two years of support. He worked on the publication of his results and wrote travel books and essays in large numbers. From the beginning of 1849, he was with a large family but since no income. Its applications to several released in the aftermath professorships were unsuccessful. In 1850 he qualified as a professor in Berlin.

There was for him a financially hard time decreed in the cooking does not have a regular income. It was not until 1855, improved his situation. Hermann Steudner was recorded as a son by him. They stayed up to Steudners death close friends.

Koch was in 1852 elected General Secretary of the Association for the promotion of horticulture. He has advised Prince Hermann von Pueckler in its aim to create nothing from the second Landscape Park in Branitz.

From 1853 he was employed at the Botanical Garden in Berlin, but not as hoped for by him as an adjunct, but as " assistant to the director ." For several years his job was the taxonomic revision of the plant populations. From 1853 he published his results in the annual index Seminum the Berlin Botanic Garden.

His areas of expertise included within the Botany Dendrology and pomology. But he was also cross-curricular work in the fields of ethnology, anthropology, archeology, cartography, geology, horticulture and genetic variability.

Writings

  • Hiking in the East, during 1843 and 1844. 3 volumes, Weimar 1846
  • Hortus dendrologicus. List of trees, shrubs and subshrubs, the North and Central Asia, growing in Europe, the Himalayas, and in North America wild and endure possibly in Central Europe outdoors; after the natural systems and indicating all synonyms, as the motherland, enumerated and identified by an alphabetical register. 1853-1854
  • The botanical gardens. One word at a time. 1860
  • Lectures on Dendrology: Held in Berlin in the winter of 1874/75 in three parts. 1) History of the Gardens. 2) the structure and life of the tree, and its relation to human and climate. 3) The softwoods or conifers. Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1875
  • The German fruit trees. Lectures held in Berlin in the winter of 1875 / 76th 1876
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