Johann Adam Philipp Hepp (26 October 1797, in

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– 5 February 1867, in

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) was a German physician and lichenologist. He studied medicine at the

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, and from 1826 worked as a doctor in

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. Because of his activities during the German revolutionary period of 1848–49, he was forced to move to Switzerland, where he lived in exile for the rest of his life. In Switzerland he devoted his time to lichenological research, and in 1857 published a work on European lichens titled ''Die Flechten Europas in getrockneten mikroskopisch untersuchten Exemplaren mit Beschreibung und Abbildung ihrer Sporen''. He died on 5 February 1867 while visiting his daughter in Frankfurt.

Honours

The

mycological Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans, including as a source for tinder, traditional medicine, food, and entheogens, as w ...

family Heppiaceae commemorates his name, as does the lichen genus ''

Heppia ''Heppia'' is a genus of olive, brownish, gray, or blackish squamulose, crustose, or peltate like lichens.Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 1, Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bugartz, F., (eds.) 2001/ref> ''Heppia'' was onc ...

'' (

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ex A.Massal, 1854), the botanical genus '' Heppiella'' (

Regel Eduard August von Regel (sometimes Edward von Regel or Edward de Regel or Édouard von Regel), Russian: Эдуард Август Фон Регель; (born 13 August 1815 in Gotha; died 15 April 1892 in St. Petersburg) was a German horticultural ...

, 1853; family

Gesneriaceae Gesneriaceae, the gesneriad family, is a family of flowering plants consisting of about 152 genera and ca. 3,540 species in the tropics and subtropics of the Old World (almost all Didymocarpoideae) and the New World (most Gesnerioideae), with ...

), the fungal genus '' Neoheppia'' ( Zahlbr., 1909), and '' Heppsora'' is a genus of

lichen A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.fungi A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from ...

, (in the family

Ramalinaceae The Ramalinaceae are a family of lichenized fungi in the order Lecanorales. The family name is synonymous with the name ''Bacidiaceae''. Species of this family have a widespread distribution. Genera *''Aciculopsora'' *''Adelolecia'' *'' Arthro ...

D.D. Awasthi & Kr.P. Singh, 1977).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hepp, Johann Adam Philipp 1797 births 1867 deaths People from Kaiserslautern University of Würzburg alumni German lichenologists People of the Revolutions of 1848 German revolutionaries Members of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies