Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter

Infobox Person
name = Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter


birth_date = April 27, 1733
birth_place = Sulz am Neckar, Germany
death_date = November 11, 1806
death_place = Karlsruhe, Germany
nationality = German

Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter (April 27, 1733 - November 11, 1806), also spelled "Koelreuter" or "Kohlreuter" was a German botanist.

Kölreuter was born the son of a pharmacist in Karlsruhe, Germany, and grew up in Sulz. He studied medicine at the University of Tübingen under physician and botanist Johann Georg Gmelin. He made PhD in 1755.

He worked in St. Petersburg from 1756 to 1761, when he moved back to Sulz and in 1762 to Calw.

Kölreuter described many plant species, and studied pollen.

The genus "Koelreuteria" has been named in his honour.

Kölreuter died in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Works

* "Dissertatio inauguralis medica de insectis coleopteris, nec non de plantis quibusdam rarioribus... Tubingae: litteris Erhardianis" (1755)
* "Vorläufige Nachricht von einigen, das Geschlecht der Pflanzen betreffenden Versuchen" (1761-1766)
* "Das entdeckte Geheimniss der Cryptogamie" (1777)

External links

* [http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/ausstellung/koelreuter/digitalisierte_buecher.html Digital reproductions of Kölreuter's works]

Persondata
NAME=Kölreuter, Joseph Gottlieb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=botanist
DATE OF BIRTH=April 27, 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH=Sulz am Neckar, Germany
DATE OF DEATH=November 11, 1806
PLACE OF DEATH=Karlsruhe, Germany