Philipp Bruch

Philipp Bruch ( born February 11, 1781 in Zweibrücken, † February 11, 1847 ) was a German pharmacist and Bryologe. His botanical author abbreviation is " broken ".

Philipp fraction was born in Zweibrücken in the Palatinate. His father was the pharmacist Johann Christian breakage. Philipp break first learned in a pharmacy in Main and then studied in Marburg and Paris. At the age of 21, he took over after the death of his father, his father's pharmacy in Zweibrücken. His interest in botany aroused a meeting with the scientists MDJ chef who was working on a description of the German and Swiss fauna. He worked intensively with mosses and worked with Wilhelm Philipp Schimper and Wilhelm Theodor Gümbel to the six -volume work Bryologia europaea, a monograph on European mosses together. One of the first descriptions of mosses of the genus Orthotrichum come from him. The moss genus Bruchia bears her name in honor of Philip breakage.

Writings

  • Wilhelm Philipp Schimper, Philipp fraction and Th Gümbel: Bryologia europaea (Stuttgart 1836-55, 6 vols with 640 panels ), Supplement, Stuttgart 1864-66, with 40 plates

Swell

  • Flora of North America, Bruchia
  • Tropicos: Person - break, Philipp
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