Paul Dietrich Giseke

Paul Dietrich Giseke ( born December 8, 1741 Hamburg, † April 26, 1796 ) was a German physician, botanist, teacher and librarian in Hamburg. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Giseke ".

Life

After completing his studies at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg Giseke studied from 1764 at the University of Göttingen medicine and botany. In 1767 he received his doctorate.

He then went on study trips through France and Sweden. During these stays abroad, he met Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), and became his student and close friend, so that even Linnaeus named the plant family " Gisekiaceae " after him.

From abroad back Giseke practiced in Hamburg, first as a doctor. But on December 12, 1771 he began working as a professor of physics and poetry at the Academic Gymnasium.

From 1784, he was next to Martin Friedrich Pitiscus ( 1722-1794 ), second, and after his death in 1794 to own early death (1796 ), first librarian at the Hamburg city library, today the State and University Library Hamburg.

In 1798 Giseke was added posthumously to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Ehrentaxon

To him, the genus of the plant family of Gisekia L. Gisekiaceae was named in honor.