Wilhelm Ludwig Ewald Schmidt

{{Short description|German physician, botanist, and entomologist}}

Wilhelm Ludwig Ewald Schmidt (4 May 1805 in {{interlanguage link|Nattwerder|qid=Q1969840}} (near Potsdam) – 5 June 1843 in Stettin) was a German physician, botanist, and entomologist. As an entomologist, he specialized in Coleoptera.{{Cite web|url=https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/187070.html|title=S - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen|first=Georg-August-Universität Göttingen-|last=Öffentlichkeitsarbeit|website=Georg-August Universität Göttingen}}

In 1828 he obtained his medical doctorate in Berlin; afterwards he taught classes at the Royal Gymnasium in Stettin.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333399#page/274/mode/1up BHL] Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications He was the first president of the Entomologischer Verein zu Stettin (Entomological Society of Stettin).

Works

  • Flora Sedinensis, exhibens plantas phanerogamas spontaneas, etc.; with Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Rostkovius, 1824.
  • Kurze Anweisung für junge Pharmaceuten das Studium der Botanik, 1830 - Short instruction for young pharmacists towards the study of botany.
  • Getreue und systematische Beschreibung der officinellen Pflanzen der neuesten Preussischen Landes-pharmacopöe in abellarischer Uebersicht: Ein botanisches Handbuch für Studirende Mediciner und Pharmaceuten bearbeitet (T.C.F. Enslin, 1831) - Accurate and systematic description of officinal plants.
  • Botanischer Wegweiser: oder praktische Unterweisung zweckgemäss das Studium der Botanik, 1837 - Botanical guide: or practical training purposes according to study of botany.
  • Flora von Pommern und Rügen. Becker und Altendorf, Stettin, 1840 - Flora of Pomerania and Rügen.[https://books.google.com/books?id=E8YXAAAAYAAJ&hl=en Flora von Pommern und Rügen]
  • Verzeichniss europäischer Käfer, 1840 - Directory of European beetles.[https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Wilhelm+Ludwig+Ewald+Schmidt%22 Google Search] (list of publications)

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