Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch
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Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (5 February 1714, in Leipzig – 5 October 1786, in Berlin) was a German physician and botanist known for pioneer investigations of plant sexuality and reproduction.
Biography
He studied medicine and other subjects at the University of Leipzig (1728–35), where one of his instructors was the naturalist Johann Ernst Hebenstreit (1703–1757). From 1742, he gave lectures in physiology, botany and materia medica at the University of Frankfurt, afterwards relocating to Berlin as a professor of botany at the Collegium Medico-chirurgicum and director of the local botanical garden. Beginning in 1770, he gave lectures at the recently established institute of forestry, where he was instrumental in providing a scientific basis for the field of forestry.[http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Gleditsch,_Johann_Gottlieb ADB: Gleditsch, Johann Gottlieb] @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
In his experiments involving plant movement, he demonstrated the influence that climatic factors had upon plant organs. Also, his view on the role that insects play in pollination of plants was considered to be ahead of its time.[http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz21152.html Deutsche Biographie]
The botanical genus Gleditsia (family Fabaceae) is named in his honor,[http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/plant-finder/plant-details/kc/a871/gleditsia-triacanthos.aspx Missouri Botanical Garden] Gleditsia triacanthos as is the botanical journal Gleditschia.[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6055307 WorldCat Title] Gleditschia In Berlin-Schöneberg, a thoroughfare called Gleditschstraße bears his name.
Selected works
- "Consideratio Epicriseos Siegesbeckianae in Linnaei Systema Plantorum Sexuale Et Methodum Botanicam Huic Superstructam", 1740 – dissertation in which Gleditsch recognized the importance of the Linnean System.
- "Methodus Fungorum", 1753.
- "Systema plantarum a staminum situ Systema plantarum a staminum situ", 1764.
- Vermischte physicalisch-botanisch-oeconomische Abhandlungen, 1765 – Mixed physical-botanical-economic treatises.[https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4486522A/Johann_Gottlieb_Gleditsch Open Library] (publications)
- Systematische Einleitung in die neuere, aus ihren eigenthümlichen physikalisch-ökonomischen Gründen hergeleitete Forstwissenschaft (two volumes, 1775) – Systematic introduction to the newly (due to unique physical-economic reasons) derived forestry.
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References
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External links
- [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_authorAbbrev=Gled. IPNI] List of plants described or co-described by Gleditsch.
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Category:Scientists from Leipzig
Category:18th-century German botanists