Adalbert Carl Friedrich Hellwig Conrad Schnizlein (15 April 1814,
Feuchtwangen – 24 October 1868,
Erlangen) was a German
botanist
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...
and
pharmacist
A pharmacist, also known as a chemist (Commonwealth English) or a druggist (North American and, archaically, Commonwealth English), is a healthcare professional who prepares, controls and distributes medicines and provides advice and instructi ...
. He is largely remembered for his work in the fields of
plant taxonomy and
phytogeography.
Background
He received training in pharmacy at
Ansbach, afterwards becoming an assistant pharmacist in
Nördlingen (1833). He later studied pharmacy at the
University of Munich, earning his doctorate at the
University of Erlangen in 1836. In 1845 he was habilitated in botany at Erlangen, where in 1850 he became an associate professor of botany and director of the
botanical garden.
[Biography]
@ Deutsche Biographie.
Contributions
His most extensive work, "Iconographia familiarum naturalium regni vegetabilis" (1843–1870), was issued in four volumes. A
taxonomic
Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification.
A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...
representation of the plant kingdom, it contained 399 copper plates, and in its time, was considered to be a major work in
systematics
Biological systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees (synonyms: cladograms, phylogenetic tre ...
.
[ Another significant effort by Schnizlein was a treatise on Bavarian flora, titled "''Die Flora Von Bayern''" (1847).Google Books]
Die Flora Von Bayern He also made contributions to
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius' "
Flora Brasiliensis", to
Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck
Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck (26 July 1787 – 12 December 1837) was a German botanist and pharmacologist, who was born in Schloss Reichenberg near Reichelsheim (Odenwald). He was a younger brother to naturalist Christian Gottfrie ...
's "Genera plantarum florae germanicae" and to
Jacob Sturm's "''Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen''".
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References
External links
IPNI
List of plants described and co-described by Schnizlein.
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1814 births
1868 deaths
People from Ansbach (district)
Academic staff of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
19th-century German botanists
German pharmacists