August Friedrich Schweigger
August Friedrich Schweigger is a Médecin and a German Naturaliste , born the September 8th 1783 with Erlangue and dead the June 28th 1821 close to Girgenti in Sicily.
He is the brother of the physicist Johann Solomon Christoph Schweigger (1779-1857).
August Friedrich made of the studies of Medicine and Natural history in Erlangue and obtains its title of doctor in 1804. It settles initially with Berlin then, in 1806 with Paris. It returns in Prussia in 1809 and is named professor of Botanique and medicine at the university of Königsberg. It founds a Botanical garden there.
It consequently carries out frequent voyages in Europe in order to study fauna and the flora there. He is assassinated, at the time of a voyage in Sicily, by his guide, not far from the hermitage of Quesquina.
In addition to research in botany, one owes him of important work on the tortoise S and the corals. But the classification which it follows for these derners is highly criticized by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777-1850): one sees that system of Schweigger is truly not established on suitable principles; what had to lead its author to make rapprochemens often not very natural .
List partial of the publications
- 1804 - 1811: Specimen Floræ Erlangensis .
- 1814 : Prodromi monographiæ cheloniorum sectio PRIMA and sectio secunda .
- 1819 : Nachrichten über den botanischen Garten zu Königsberg .
- 1819 : Beobachtungen auf naturhistorischen Reisen. Anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchungen über Corallen .
- 1820 : Of plantarum classifcatione naturali .
- 1820 : Handbuch der Naturgeschichte DER skeletlosen ungegliederten Thiere .
External bond
- Work of Schweigger digitized by the SICD of the universities of Strasbourg
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