Konrad Beckhaus
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]
References[]
- ^ 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
- ^ IPNI. Beckh.
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