Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck
Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck ( born July 26, 1787 Castle Reichenberg near Reichel home in the Odenwald, † December 12, 1837 in Hyères ) was a German botanist and pharmacologist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " T.Nees ".
Life
Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees was the fifth child of Johann Conrad Nees, Erbach- Erbach 's a Rent officials, Friederike Dorothea and his wife Catharina Esenbeck of gabled town. He spent his first 18 years of life at Schloss Reichenberg, in Erbach and on the estate of his brother Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck in Sickershausen in Kitzingen.
In September 1805 he took up an apprenticeship at court apothecary pharmaceutical Wilhelm Martius in Erlangen and continued this since 1811 in the "Golden Pharmacy " Bernoulli family in Basel on. Besides working at the pharmacy, he devoted himself intensively to the flora of his residence. In addition, he undertook botanical study trips and thus became a very good herbalist. To prepare for the exam, he moved in 1816 to the pharmacist Heraeus Hanau. There he made friends with the zoologist Heinrich Kuhl, through whose intercession he received in 1817 a call to Leiden / Holland: The botanist Sebald Justinus Brugmans offered him a position as Inspector of the Botanical Garden, which assumed without hesitation Nees.
With a dissertation on the growth of mosses he received his doctorate from the University of Erlangen on 16 October 1818.
His influential, eleven years older brother Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776-1858), who now held the chair of botany at the newly founded University of Bonn, brought him back to Germany. In Bonn he took in the summer of 1819 his work as Inspector of the new Botanic Garden and Repetent of botany, and habilitated for the Pharmacy. In 1822 he was appointed associate professor in 1827 to full professor. After changing his brother to Breslau, he was co-director of the Botanical Garden in 1833 in Bonn. His colleague was the botanist Ludolph Christian Treviranus.
The 1828 contracted marriage with Catharine of Brassart remained childless.
Nees von Esenbeck died on 12 December 1837 in southern France during a spa stay from tuberculosis ( " phthisis ").
The botanist Carl Ludwig Blume named in his honor the plant genus Neesia, East Asian trees in the family of woolen tree plants.
Services
Nees wrote numerous individual studies on medicinal plants, their biology and ingredients, such as Peruvian bark, catechu, gambier and Ratanhia. He also made a name for himself as an author of pharmacological textbooks and botanical splendor works.
Along with Ludwig Clamor Marquart, Philipp Wirtgen, Johann Carl Fuhlrott and other Nees founded in 1834 and revived by a botanical club significantly the botanical exploration of the Rhineland.
Works
- Plantae officinales, or collection officineller plants. Dusseldorf from 1821 to 1833.
- Collection of beautiful flowering plants in lithographed illustrations, for flower and garden lovers. - Dusseldorf: . Arnz, 1831 ( digitized )
- Handbook of medico - pharmaceutischen botany. 2 Bd Dusseldorf from 1830 to 1832. ( Together with C. H. Ebermaier edited)
- Plantae medicinales. Dusseldorf 1833
- Genera Plantarum Florae Germanicae. Bonn from 1833 to 1838.
- The system of the fungi. Bonn 1837.