Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Jessen [SEP] place of death
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Jessen
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Jessen (15 September 1821 in Schleswig – 27 May 1889 in Berlin) was a German botanist.
He studied botany and natural sciences at the University of Kiel, where he obtained his doctorate in 1848. He received his habilitation in Berlin in 1851, afterwards teaching classes at the University of Greifswald, and during the same time period, giving lectures at the agricultural college in Eldena. In 1868 he became an associate professor at Greifswald. Following closure of the Eldena agricultural college in
published in 1851, it contains literature from ancient times to his present. Research involved examination of 40,000 works in libraries at Vienna, Geneva, London, Paris and various German locations.
- "Iconum Botanicarum index locupletissimus" (1855-1866).
- "Die deutschen Volksnamen der Pflanzen" (1884); (The German common names of plants), 24,000 plant names given. Completed by botanist Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Jessen (1821–1889), after Pritzel's death in 1874.
The botanical genus "Pritzelago