Johannes Groenland
Johannes Groenland | |
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Born | 8 April 1824 |
Died | 13 February 1891 Dahme, Brandenburg, Germany | (aged 66)
Scientific career | |
Fields | Botany, Horticulture, Microscopy, Pharmacology |
Institutions | Vilmorin, Agricultural and Agricultural Chemistry Research Station (Dahme) |
Johannes Groenland (also spelled Grönland and called "Jean Groenland," 1824–1891) was a German
Early life
He was born on 8 April 1824 in Altona, a borough of Hamburg that was part of the Duchy of Holstein at that time. He was the son of Johann Friedrich Grönland, a German organist and music teacher.[1]
Career
Early career, First Schleswig War
Groenland was trained in pharmacology in his youth and served as a pharmacist in Altona, Hamburg, and Jena in his early 20s. In 1849 he joined the Schleswig-Holstein army to fight in the First Schleswig War.
Life in Paris
After the war, Groenland moved to Paris to work as an assistant to Louis de Vilmorin, a French biologist and horticulturist who was also a member of the family firm Vilmorin-Andrieux.[2] While working for Vilmorin, Groenland worked with Theodor Rümpler to prepare the German edition of Les fleurs de pleine terre (Vilmorin's illustrierte Blumengärtnerei).[3]
Groenland spent almost twenty years living in Paris working as a botanical researcher and horticulturist. He was a founding member of the
Move to Dahme
Groenland and his wife left Paris in May 1871 after the conclusion of the Franco-Prussian War. They settled in Dahme, Germany, where he worked as a botanist and professor of natural sciences at the Agricultural and Agricultural Chemistry Research Station until his death on 13 February 1891.[3][2] At that time, he was also an active and important member of the Botanischer Verein der Provinz Brandenburg.[1]
Legacy
The genus Groenlandia in the family Potamogetonaceae (pondweed) is named in his honor.
Selected works
- Mémoire sur la germination de quelques hépatiques (1854)
- Note sur l’Holcus setiger (1855)
- Note sur les organs glanduleux du genre Drosera (1856)
- Note sur l’hybridation du genre Aegilops (1857)
- Note sur les hybrids du genre Aegilops (1862)
- Histoire naturelle ilustrée: végétaux (1870)
- Des préparations microscopiques tirées du regne végétal (1872)
- Vilmorin's illustrierte Blumengärtnerei (1872-5)
References
- ^ a b c Magnus, Paul. (1892). Nachruf [obituary in German]. Verhandlungen des Botanischen Vereins für die Provinz Brandenburg, 33, 49-51. Retrieved 14 September 2012 from Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ a b c Stafleu, F.A., & Cowan, R.S. (2009). Groenland, Johannes. Taxonomic Literature: Supplement 8. Utrecht: Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema.
- ^ a b c Johannes Grönland [obituary]. In Annals of Horticulture in North America. (1891). Retrieved 14 September 2012 from HathiTrust.
- ^ Stevenson, Brian. (2012, January). Johannes Grönland, 1824-1891. Historical Makers of Microscopes and Microscope Slides. Retrieved 14 September 2012 from Microscopist.net.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Groenland.