Karl Wilhelm Leopold Krug
Carl Wilhelm Leopold Krug, short Leopold Krug ( born September 1 in 1833 on Good Mill Beck at Pankow, † April 5, 1898 in Berlin light field ) was a German botanist, anthropologist, author and patron. His botanical author abbreviation is " jug ".
Life
He was the son of the manor owner Karl Krug on Good Mill Beck and Auguste Ulrici. His grandfather was the German economist and statistician Leopold Stein ( 1770-1843 ).
Was baptized pitcher on 8 October 1833 in the Church of St. Sophia in Berlin. He was educated in the parental home, at school and at the high school Joachimstalerstrasse the Grey Monastery in Berlin. After a commercial apprenticeship in Hamburg from 1856 entry into the World Company Schulze and Co. in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, whose leadership soon passed into his hands. He was German and English consul in Mayagüez. For his services he was so honored by the Spanish government with the Grand Cross of the Order of Queen Isabella the Catholic and with the rank of grandee based in the Cortes.
The Prussian government awarded him because of his research in the field of the fauna and flora of the West Indies the title of professor. Its extensive collections in the field of fauna he left for processing the Berlin Zoological Museum. His 20 volumes from existing catalog of the flora, Catalogus plantarum omnium Indiae occidentalis, which he had made in the years 1884 to 1898, he donated the Botanical Museum in Berlin. For processing and other local research in the West Indies, he made substantial grants from its own funds.
Ethnographic collections he handed the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. 18? 6 he returned to Berlin and created in -field lights east, Marienplatz 8-10 own home. In Puerto Rico he married on October 21, 1879, the Spanish widow Tula de Chavarry ( 1839-1911 ) and adopted her son from her first marriage, Pedro Fernandez. The marriage remained childless.
Krug is buried next to his wife in the cemetery lights field. A detailed assessment of his work brought to his death, the National-Zeitung ( Issue No. 238 of 15 April 1898) and the report of the German Botanical Society ( Volume XVI, 1898).
The plant genus Krugiodendron buckthorn plants was named after him.
Works
- Catalogus plantarum omnium Indiae occidentalis, Manuscript, 20 volumes, Berlin 1884-1898
- Nouns vernacula plantarum Indiae occidentalis, 1868-1893