Konrad Friedrich Ludwig Beckhaus (18 August 1821, Lingen – 13 August 1890, Höxter) was a German Protestant clergyman and botanist.
He studied theology in Halle, Tübingen and Berlin, subsequently becoming a Hilfsprediger ( curate) in the city of Höxter in 1847. [1] [2] In 1851 he became a pastor at Sankt Kiliani church in Höxter and six years later was appointed superintendent of the Paderborn church district. [3]
He was the author of a popular book on the flora of Westphalia, titled Flora von Westfalen. die in der Provinz Westfalen wild wachsenden Gefäss-Pflanzen, published posthumously in 1893. [4] Taxa with the specific epithet of beckhausii commemorate his name, [5] as does the lichen genus Beckhausia. [6]
- ^ Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen, Volume 1 by Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers
- ^ UNI-Goettingen Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants (with Herbarium)
- ^ "Sentence based on translated text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia".
- ^ Google Books Flora von Westfalen
- ^ Natur und Heimat; Floristische, faunistische und ökologische Berichte Westfälisches Museum für Naturkunde, Münster
- ^ Hertel, Hannes (2012). Gattungseponyme bei Flechten und Lichenicolen Pilzen. Bibliotheca Lichenologica (in German). Vol. 107. Stuttgart: J. Cramer. p. 17. ISBN 978-3-443-58086-5.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Beckh.
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Konrad Friedrich Ludwig Beckhaus (18 August 1821, Lingen – 13 August 1890, Höxter) was a German Protestant clergyman and botanist.
He studied theology in Halle, Tübingen and Berlin, subsequently becoming a Hilfsprediger ( curate) in the city of Höxter in 1847. [1] [2] In 1851 he became a pastor at Sankt Kiliani church in Höxter and six years later was appointed superintendent of the Paderborn church district. [3]
He was the author of a popular book on the flora of Westphalia, titled Flora von Westfalen. die in der Provinz Westfalen wild wachsenden Gefäss-Pflanzen, published posthumously in 1893. [4] Taxa with the specific epithet of beckhausii commemorate his name, [5] as does the lichen genus Beckhausia. [6]
- ^ Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen, Volume 1 by Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers
- ^ UNI-Goettingen Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants (with Herbarium)
- ^ "Sentence based on translated text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia".
- ^ Google Books Flora von Westfalen
- ^ Natur und Heimat; Floristische, faunistische und ökologische Berichte Westfälisches Museum für Naturkunde, Münster
- ^ Hertel, Hannes (2012). Gattungseponyme bei Flechten und Lichenicolen Pilzen. Bibliotheca Lichenologica (in German). Vol. 107. Stuttgart: J. Cramer. p. 17. ISBN 978-3-443-58086-5.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Beckh.
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