Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (5 March 1771 – 14 November 1849) was a German physician and botanist from Kusel, a town in the Rhineland-Palatinate.
Education edit
Koch studied medicine at the Universities of Jena and Marburg, and afterwards was a Stadtphysicus (state physician) in Trarbach and Kaiserslautern (1798). In 1824 he became a professor of medicine and botany at the University of Erlangen, where he stayed for the remainder of his life. At Erlangen, he was also director of the botanical gardens. In 1833, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Death edit
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Koch died in Erlangen.[citation needed]
Notable works edit
Among his better written efforts was a synopsis on German and Swiss flora titled Synopsis florae germanicae et helveticae (1835–37). Another noteworthy publication of his was Catalogus plantarum, quae in ditione Florae Palatinatus (Catalog of Palatinate flora) (1814).
Honours edit
He has been honoured in the naming of 2 plant genera; Eokochia (from the family Amaranthaceae),[1] and Kochia (Chenopodioideae).[2]
References edit
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "Definition of Kochia". The Free Dictionary.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. W.D.J.Koch.
- "Koch, Wilhelm", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 16, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1882, pp. 402–405
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