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Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe

Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe rather than just read about it. In short: Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe (5 July 1795 – 23 November 1880) was a German pharmacist, botanist and bryologist who was a native of Fürstenberg. In 1810 he became an apprentice pharmacist to his uncle in Brakel, and over the next fifteen years worked in several different pharmacies, including one in Halle an der Saale, where he made the acquaintance of botanist Kurt Sprengel (1766-1833).

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Reference excerpt

Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe (5 July 1795 – 23 November 1880) was a German pharmacist, botanist and bryologist who was a native of Fürstenberg. In 1810 he became an apprentice pharmacist to his uncle in Brakel, and over the next fifteen years worked in several different pharmacies, including one in Halle an der Saale, where he made the acquaintance of botanist Kurt Sprengel (1766-1833). He also worked at the university pharmacy in Göttingen, and at establishments in Allendorf and Braunschweig. In 1825 he became head of a local pharmacy in Blankenburg am Harz, where he remained its director up until 1864. With Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling he edited the exsiccatae Vegetabilia cellularia in Germania septentrionali praesertim in Hercynia et in agro Göttingensi. Ser. A-D (1832-1845). During his time spent in Blankenburg, Hampe collected and studied flora native to the Harz Mountains. He was particularly interested in mosses, and through his association with bryologist Karl Müller (1818-1899), he became exposed to non-European species from the Americas, Madagascar, New Zealand, Australia, et al. In his collaborative research with Müller, he described numerous new bryological species. Later in life, Hampe received an honorary professorship from the University of Göttingen. In 1876 he sold his pharmacy in Blankenburg, and moved to Helmstedt, where he went to live with his son. After Hampe's death, his large herbarium was acquired by the British Museum of Natural History. The plant genus Hampea from the family Malvaceae was named in his honor by Dietrich von Schlechtendal (1794-1866).

Selected publications Prodromus flora Hercynicae (Halle 1836, Nordhausen 1842). Vegetabilia cellularia in Germania septentrionali praesertim in Hercynia et in agro Gottingensi lecta (1834 and 1836), with Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798–1875). Icones muscorum novorum vel minus cognitorum (Bonn 1844). Flora Hercynica oder Aufzählung der im Harzgebiete wildwachsenden Gefässpflanzen (1873) – Flora Hercynica or enumeration of vascular plants native to the Harz region. Flora Hercynica (Halle 1875).

References

Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia. Episodes in Australian Bryology @ Australian National Botanical Gardens.

External links IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Hampe.

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In the classroom: Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1795 births, 1880 deaths, 19th-century German botanists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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