Joseph Gärtner

Joseph Gärtner or Gaertner is a German Botaniste , born the March 12th 1732 with Calw in the Württemberg and died in 1791 in this same city.

He is the son of Joseph Gärtner and Eva Maria born Wagner. He studies the Droit in 1750 and the doctor to the university of Göttingen, where he follows the courses of Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777), and of Tübingen. It is in the latter that it obtains a title of doctor of medicine. He travels through the Europe and remains in particular with Montpellier, where he attends François Boissier de Sauvages of Lacroix (1706-1767), with London where he meets Philip Miller (1691-1771) and William Hudson (1730-1793), and with Leyde where he studies near Adriaan van Royen (1704-1779), director of the botanical garden of the city. Gärtner teaches the Anatomie in Tübingen of 1761 with 1768 then the Botanique and the Natural history with Saint-Pétersbourg starting from 1768. In 1770, considering that the climate is too hard, it returns to Germany and settles with Calw where it directs the botanical garden and the collections of natural history. It is devoted consequently almost exclusively to the drafting of its work Of ructibus and siminibus plantarum (1788 - 1791) which it had undertaken a few years earlier.

He is member of the Royal Society (in 1761) and of the Academy of Science of Saint-Pétersbourg. He is in particular the author of the Supplementum carpologiae (1805 - 1807). One regards it as the founder of the Carpologie. Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) and Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828) of return of their round the world tour, is appropriate to him the fruits which they had collected.

His/her son is the doctor and botanist Karl Friedrich von Gärtner (1772-1850).

Source

Julius von Sachs (1890). History off Botany (1530-1860), Clarendon Close (Oxford): xvi + 568 p.

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