Ludolph Christian Treviranus

Ludolph Christian Treviranus (September 18, 1779 - May 6, 1864) was a German botanist who was born in Bremen. He was a younger brother to naturalist Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776-1837).

In 1801 he earned his doctorate at the University of Jena, where he had as instructors; botanist August Batsch (1761-1802) and philosophers Friedrich Schelling (1775-1854) and Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814). In 1807 he was a professor at the Lyceum at Bremen, and in 1812 became a professor of natural history and botany at the University of Rostock, where he was also director of the Botanical Gardens. In 1816 he replaced Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767-1851) as professor of botany at the University of Breslau, and in 1820 transferred to the University of Bonn, where he was successor to Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776-1858). Treviranus remained at Bonn until his death in 1864.

Treviranus specialized in plant anatomy, physiology and morphology. He is credited for proposing the hypothesis that plant cells were separable into individual units by an intercellular space. The botanical genus "Trevirana" from the family Gesneriaceae is named after him.

Selected writings

* "Vom inwendigen Bau der Gewächse" (About the Internal Construction of Plants), (1806)
* "Beiträge zur Pflanzenphysiologie" (Contributions to Plant Physiology), (1811)
* "Von der Entwickelung des Embryo und seiner Umhüllungen im Pflanzenei", (1815)
* "De ovo vegetabili ejusque mutationibus observationes recentiores", (1828)
* "Physiologie der Gewächse" (Physiology of plants, 2 Volumes), (1835-38)
* "Die Anwendung des Holzschnittes zur Biolichen Darstellung von Pflanzen", 1855

References

* "This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia."