Karl Heinrich Emil Koch ( 1809 - 1879 , German: Karl (Carl) Heinrich Emil (Ludwig) Koch ) - German botanist , is considered one of the founders of dendrology .
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| Date of Birth | June 6, 1809 |
| Place of Birth | Weimar |
| Date of death | May 25, 1879 (69 years old) |
| Place of death | Berlin |
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation “ K.Koch ” . List of such taxa on the IPNI website Personal page on IPNI website The designation C.Koch is also found. |
Biography
At first, Koch studied medicine in Jena , but mainly studied botany, and in 1834 he became a privat-docent in botany in Jena.
In 1836 , Koch took a trip to the East, visited the Caucasus , Mingrelia to Batumi , the northern part of Armenia , the Persian Plateau and Ararat . The main purpose of this journey was to determine the homeland of fruit trees. Koch returned from this journey in 1838 through St. Petersburg with rich collections; he published the results of the journey in the essay: “Reise durch Russland nach dem Kaukas. Isthmus ” (2 volumes, Stuttgart , 1842 - 43 ).
In 1843 , Koch, with the assistance of Frederick William IV and the Berlin Academy of Sciences, made a second trip to the East. He visited the Pontic Plateau , the area around Ardagan and Erzurum and the eastern part of the region adjacent to the Euphrates . The description of this journey amounted to 3 volumes of the work: “Wanderungen durch dem Orient” ( Weimar , 1846–47 ). After moving to Berlin in 1847 , Koch was appointed extraordinary professor of dendrology at the university, in 1878 he was appointed director of the Berlin Botanical Garden .
Compositions
His main work is considered "Dendrologie" (3 volumes, Erlangen , 1869 - 1872 );
in addition, he published the following essays:
- "Das natürliche System des Pflanzenreichs nachgewiesen in der Flora von Jena" ( 1839 ),
- “Beiträge zu einer Flora des Orientes” ( Berlin , 1848 - 1851 ),
- "Hortus dendrologicus" ( 1853 ),
- Die botanischen Gärten ( Berlin , 1860 ),
- “Die deutschen Obstgehölze” ( Stuttgart , 1876 ).
From 1857 to 1872 , Koch published the magazine: “Wochenschrift für Gärtnerei und Pflanzenkunde” .
Literature
- Koch, Karl-Heinrich-Emil // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.