Johann Horkel

{{Short description|German physician and botanist}}

Johann Horkel (8 September 1769 in Burg auf Fehmarn – 15 November 1846 in Berlin) was a German physician and botanist.

From 1787 he studied medicine at the University of Halle, where in 1802 he was named an associate professor. From 1804 to 1810 he served as a full professor of medicine at Halle, afterwards relocating to Berlin, where he spent the rest of his career as a professor of plant physiology.[https://books.google.com/books?id=tLvlBgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Johann+Horkel%22+1769&pg=PA69 Sharks: An Eponym Dictionary] by Michael Watkins, Bo Beolens[https://books.google.com/books?id=ckMBAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22Horkel%2C+Johann%22+1769&pg=PA372 Lexicon der schleswig-holstein-lauenburgischen und eutinischschen ...] by Eduard Alberti In 1800/01 he was editor of the journal Archiv für die thierische Chemie,[https://books.google.com/books?id=vUhAAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Archiv+f%C3%BCr+die+thierische+Chemie%22+Horkel&pg=PA1080 Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 36] by Henry Carrington Bolton and for a period of time, was an editor of the Deutsches Archiv für die Physiologie.[https://books.google.com/books?id=kxYUAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22Deutsches+Archiv+f%C3%BCr+die+Physiologie%22+Horkel&pg=PR1 Deutsches Archiv für die Physiologie, Volume 1]

He was an uncle and a significant influence to the career of botanist Matthias Jakob Schleiden.[http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/3543.html Biography of Matthias Jakob Schleiden] at Who Named It The botanical genera Horkelia (Cham. & Schltdl.) and Horkeliella (Rydb.) commemorate his name,[https://books.google.com/books?id=NJ6PyhVuecwC&dq=%22Johann+Horkel%22+1769&pg=PA203 The Names of Plants] by D. Gledhill as does the fish species Rhinobatos horkelii (Brazilian guitarfish).

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