Christian Julius Wilhelm Schiede (February 3, 1798 – December 1836) was a German physician and

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born in

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

. He studied

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and medicine in

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and

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, where he earned his doctorate in 1825. Afterwards he practiced medicine in Kassel. In 1828 Schiede emigrated to Mexico, accompanied by

Ferdinand Deppe Ferdinand Deppe (1794–1861) was a German naturalist, explorer and painter. He was born and died in Berlin. Deppe travelled to Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion o ...

(1794-1861), a German naturalist with previous experience in the country. The two scientists planned to collect

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and

botanical 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 ...

specimens, which would then be sold to museums and dealers in Europe. In July 1828 they settled in

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, and performed scientific excursions throughout the state of

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. Although they were able sell their collections to museums in Berlin and

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, the money earned was insufficient to continue operations, causing Deppe and Schiede to abandon their enterprise in late 1830. Christian Schiede died in Mexico in 1836 at the age of 38. The botanical

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'' Schiedeella'' and ''

Schiedea ''Schiedea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. It contains 34 species and is endemic to Hawaii. A 35th species was spotted in 2017 by Tom DeMent while surveying a forest near Laupāhoehoe on Hawai‘i Island. It has ...

'' are named after him, as is a species of lizard, '' Anolis schiedei''.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Schiede", p. 235).

Publications

*''Über Bastarde im Pflanzenreich'', 1824 – Hybrids in the plant kingdom. *Schiede, C. J. W. ''De plantis hybridis sponte natis'' (1825
on BioLib
*''Befruchtung der pflanzen'', 1825 – Fertilization of plants. *''De plantis Mexicanis a G. Schiede'' (1830-1844); with

Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (27 November 1794, Xanten – 12 October 1866, Halle) was a German botanist. He studied in Berlin, in 1819 becoming curator of the Royal Herbarium. He was a professor of botany and director of the Bo ...

and

Adelbert von Chamisso Adelbert von Chamisso (; 30 January 178121 August 1838) was a German poet and botanist, author of ''Peter Schlemihl'', a famous story about a man who sold his shadow. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso (or Chamissot) de Bonc ...

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Bibliography on World.Cat

References

External links

Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants (with Herbarium).
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