Wilhelm Philippe Schimper

Wilhelm Philipp Schimper ( born January 12, 1808 in Dossenheim in Alsace in Saverne, † March 20, 1880 in Strasbourg ) was a German botanist, geologist and palaeobotanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Schimp. ".

Life and work

Wilhelm Philipp Schimper was the cousin of the brothers Karl Friedrich Schimper and Wilhelm Schimper and the father of Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper. Since he scientifically dealt among other things with mosses, it is called to distinguish it from its namesake as " Moosschimper ".

Schimper studied from 1826 to 1828 philosophy, mathematics and philology at the University of Strasbourg, then there from 1828 theology. After minor scientific trips he was in 1835 appointed as an assistant at the Zoological Museum of the City of Strasbourg, 1838, he was curator and librarian of the collections, in 1839 director of the museum, and taught from 1862 to 1879 also as a professor of geology, mineralogy, and natural history at the university. Scientific focus of his work was the classification of mosses and plant fossils.

The term Paleocene for the lowest series of the Tertiary period ( millions before 65-53 years ) was coined by Wilhelm Philipp Schimper.

In 1862 he was appointed a member of the Leopoldina; In 1866 he became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

Writings

  • With Philip fraction and Th Gümbel: Bryologia europaea (Stuttgart 1836-55, 6 vols with 640 panels ), Supplement, Stuttgart 1864-66, with 40 plates
  • With A. Mougeot: fossil monograph des Plantes du Gres Bigarre de la chaine des Vosges, Leipzig 1844
  • Stirpes normal bryologiae Europaeae, Strasbourg 1844-1854
  • Recherches sur les anatomiques et morphologiques mousses, Strasbourg 1849
  • Icones morphologicae, Stuttgart 1860
  • Mémoire pour servir à l' histoire naturelle of Sphagnum, Paris 1854 ( German, Stuttgart 1857)
  • Palaeontologica Alsatica, Strasbourg 1854 f
  • Synopsis muscorum europaeorum, Stuttgart 1860, 2nd edition 1876
  • Le terrain de transition des Vosges, Strasbourg, 1862, with Köchlin
  • Traité de paléontologie végétale, Paris 1869-74, 3 volumes
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