Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur
Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur ( born February 18, 1799 in Königsberg, † May 27 1878 in Bielsko, Austro- Silesia ) was a German -Austrian botanist, chemist and industrialist. His botanical author abbreviation is " virgin ".
Life and work
Schur grew up as the son of a master button-maker. Age of ten he entered the Kneiphof'sche Cathedral High School. When this was transformed into a higher public school, he intended to privately prepare for the academic student exam. The financial resources of the family but ranged are not sufficient. Schur now chose the pharmacy profession and joined as an apprentice in the Wegener's pharmacy to Gerdauen one. In his apprenticeship, he laid on a herbarium of 600 plants. In 1819 he deposits the check and assistants still working until 1826 in this pharmacy. From 1821 on he lived again in Königsberg and moved to its financial possibilities between the assistants and the study site. Schur had studied five years pharmaceuticals, chemicals in all disciplines, physics, mineralogy, zoology, botany and philosophy at Konigsberg and Berlin University. He studied in Königsberg among others, Friedrich Dulk, Ernst Meyer and Friedrich Burdach; in Berlin with Alexander von Humboldt, Eilhard Mitscherlich and Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt. He finished his studies in 1831 as a pharmacist first class in 1835 and his doctorate at the University of Jena. Following Schur offered private lessons in chemistry, chemical analysis, pharmacy and botany.
1831 Schur was a director of a chemical factory after Liesing in Vienna. He immersed himself now in chemical engineering studies, but remained connected botany. He subsequently became an employee of the Austrian botanical magazine. Schur founded in 1839 a chemical factory in Inzersdorf at Vienna's Mountain, in the economic success failed to materialize as in some of the following companies. Schur settled in Pressburg and St. Georgen in Hungary. 1845 took over Schur for eight years, the principal of a chemical factory in Sibiu in Transylvania.
On behalf of the then governor of Transylvania, Prince Carl zu Schwarzenberg, traveled Schur in 1853 by the Transylvanian country to complete his research through a scientific, actually botanical tour at government expense. He was accompanied by the young naturalist Eduard Albert Bielz (1827-1898) The comprehensive trip report was published in 1859. On his numerous trips Schur put on an over 50,000 plant specimens comprehensive herbarium, which served as the basis for his scientific work.
1854 Schur returned back to Vienna and lived from 1872 in Brunn am Gebirge. In 1876 he moved to his son, who took over a parish in Bielsko. There he died of pneumonia.
- From Ferdinand Schur described plant
Prunella vulgaris f leucantha Schur
Physoplexis comosa (L.) Schur
Physoplexis comosa (L.) Schur