Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch

Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch ( born March 5, 1771 in Kusel, † November 14, 1849 in Erlangen, Germany ) was a German botanist and physician. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " WDJKoch ".

Life and work

Koch studied in Jena and Marburg Medicine and received the 1795 Physikat to Trarbach and 1798 of the Kaiserslautern.

However, already at that time he was also botanically active. First, he granted " Entomological books " (Frankfurt 1803 2 Lfgn. ) Out, but then he wrote with chintz, a flora of the Palatinate: Catalogus plantarum florae palatinae (1814 ), and got the new editor of Röhlings "Germany's Flora". In 1824 he was appointed professor of medicine and botany to Erlangen, where he was also director of the Botanical Garden Erlangen until his death. His principal work is the " Synopsis florae Germanicae et Helveticae " (Frankfurt am Main in 1837; 3rd edition Leipzig 1857), which also in the abstract as " Handbook of German and Swiss. Flora " ( 8th ed by Ernst Hallier das., 1881) appeared.

Public offices

Koch officiated from 1833 to 1843 as President of the District council of Middle Franconia.

Honors

He was the genus Kochia Roth in honor. the plant family Amaranthaceae ( Amaranthaceae ) named.

The since 2006 issued by the Company to researching the flora of Germany magazine Kochia is also named after cooking.