Johannes Conrad Schauer

{{Short description|German botanist (1813–1848)}}

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| birth_date = 16 February 1813

| birth_place = Frankfurt am Main, Germany

| death_date = 24 October 1848 (aged 35)

| death_place = Eldena, Germany

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| field = botany

| work_institutions = University of Greifswald

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Johannes Conrad Schauer (16 February 1813 – 24 October 1848) was a botanist interested in spermatophytes.{{cite web| url = http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idAuthorSearch.do?id=9021-1 | title = Schauer, Johannes Conrad (1813-1848) | access-date = 2008-03-03 | date = 1991-07-11 | work = Author Details | publisher = IPNI | quote = Area of Interest: Spermatophytes }} He was born in Frankfurt am Main and attended the gymnasium of Mainz from 1825 to 1837. For the next three years he worked at the Hofgarten of Würzburg. Schauer then gained a position as assistant at the botanical garden at Bonn where he worked until 1832 when he was placed in charge of the botanic garden in Breslau, (now Wrocław in Poland) with C.G. Nees. He gained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 1835 and was appointed professor of botany at the University of Greifswald from 1843 until his death in 1848.{{cite book|last1=Stafleu|first1=Frans A.|last2=Cowan|first2=Richard S.|title=Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types. Volume 5, Sal-Ste|date=1985|publisher=Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema|location=Utrecht, Netherlands|isbn=9031306312|edition=2nd|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104077#page/133/mode/1up|access-date=24 December 2015}}{{cite web | url = http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/potm/?y=2008&m=2 | title = Eucalyptus lehmannii — Bushy Yate | access-date = 2008-03-04 | date = February 2008 | work = Plant of the Month | publisher = FloraBase | archive-date = 2011-05-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110524202525/http://florabase.calm.wa.gov.au/potm/?y=2008&m=2 | url-status = dead }}

Although he never visited Australia, many Australian botanists and plant collectors sent him plant specimens, especially eucalypts and other members of the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. For example, when Allan Cunningham died in 1839, Schauer received many botanical specimens from the executor of Cunningham's estate, {{Interlanguage link multi|Robert Heward|2=es|4=fr|preserve=1}}, including Eucalyptus clavigera (now Corymbia clavigera (A.Cunn. & Schauer) K.D. Hill & L.A.S. Johnson).{{cite journal|last1=Webb|first1=Joan B.|title=Allan Cunningham in Careening Bay, W.A.|journal=Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter|date=June 2012|issue=151|pages=3–6}} Many of Schauer's descriptions were published in Walpers' Repertorium Botanices Systematicae{{cite book|last1=Walpers|first1=Wilhelm Gerhard|title=Repertorium Botanices Systematicae (Volume 2)|date=1843|publisher=Lipsiae, Sumptibus Friderici Hofmeister|pages=924–932|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32093#page/940/mode/1up|access-date=4 August 2015}} and Dissertatio phytographica de Regelia, Beaufortia et Calothamno : generibus plantarum Myrtacearum.{{cite web|title=Published Resources Details|url=http://www.eoas.info/bib/ASBS03529.htm|publisher=Encyclopedia of Australian Science|access-date=4 August 2015}}

The genus Schaueria (family Acanthaceae) was named in his honour by Nees (1838).{{IPNI|taxon = Schaueria|id = 908-1 |accessdate = 4 August 2015}} Calothamnus schaueri and Beaufortia schaueri were also named in his honour.