Christian Friedrich Hornschuch
Christian Friedrich Hornschuch (21 August 1793 – 24 December 1850) was a German
botanist
.
Biography
Hornschuch was born in
mosses (Bryopsida) native to the Fichtel Mountains
.
In 1816 he accompanied Hoppe on a botanical expedition to the
In 1820 he was appointed associate professor of
botanical gardens at the University of Greifswald
. In 1827, he attained the title of "full professor".
In 1821, botanist Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck named a genus of flowering plants (in family Annonaceae) from Brazil as Hornschuchia.[3]
Publications
Hornschuch specialized in the field of
engraver Jacob Sturm
(1771–1848), he was co-author of Bryologia Germanica (1823–31). He translated a number of Danish and Swedish works, and was the author of the following publications:
- Tagebuch auf einer Reise nach den Küsten des adriatischen Meeres (Diary of a journey to the shores of the Adriatic Sea), 1818
- De Voitia et Systolio. novis muscorum frondosorum generibus (1818)
- Flora oder botanische Zeitung, founded with David Heinrich Hoppe as a publication of the Royal Bavarian Botanical Society of Regensburg
- Einige Beobachtungen über die Entstehung und Metamorphose der niederen vegetabilischen Organismen (Some observations on the formation and metamorphism of the lower vegetable organisms). In: Flora (1819)
- with David Heinrich Hoppe, Jacob Sturm and Jacob Johann Hagenbach Insecta coleoptrata, quae in itineribus suis, prasertim Alpinis, collegerunt (1825)
References
- ^ Deutsche Biographie
- ^ Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
- ^ "Hornschuchia Nees". Plants of the World Online. Kew Science. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Hornsch.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Academics | |
| People | |
| Other | |
   | This article about a German botanist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |