Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe
Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe (5 July 1795 – 23 November 1880) was a German
bryologist who was a native of Fürstenberg
.
In 1810 he became an apprentice
Blankenburg am Harz
, where he remained its director up until 1864.
During his time spent in Blankenburg, Hampe collected and studied flora native to the
mosses, and through his association with bryologist Karl Müller (1818-1899), he became exposed to non-European species from the Americas, Madagascar
, New Zealand, Australia, et al. In his collaborative research with Müller, he described numerous new bryological species.
Later in life, Hampe received an honorary professorship from the University of Göttingen. In 1876 he sold his pharmacy in Blankenburg, and moved to
British Museum of Natural History
.
The plant genus Hampea from the family Malvaceae was named in his honor by Dietrich von Schlechtendal (1794-1866).[1]
Selected publications
- Prodromus flora Hercynicae (Halle 1836, Nordhausen 1842).
- Vegetabilia cellularia in Germania septentrionali praesertim in Hercynia et in agro Gottingensi lecta (1834 and 1836), with Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798–1875).
- Icones muscorum novorum vel minus cognitorum (Bonn 1844).
- Flora Hercynica oder Aufzählung der im Harzgebiete wildwachsenden Gefässpflanzen (1873) – Flora Hercynica or enumeration of vascular plants native to the Harz region.
- Flora Hercynica (Halle 1875).
References
- Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.
- Episodes in Australian Bryology @ Australian National Botanical Gardens.
External links
- IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Hampe.
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