Franz Joseph Schelver, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German botanist and teacher (1778-1832)
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Place of Birth: Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Franz Joseph Schelver
- Franz Joseph Schelver (24 July 1778 in Osnabrück – 30 November 1832 in Heidelberg) was a German physician and botanist. He studied medicine at the University of Jena, and later obtained his doctorate at the University of Göttingen (1798).
- In 1801 he qualified as a lecturer at the University of Halle, then from 1803 to 1806, worked as an associate professor at Jena.
- Afterwards, he was named a full professor of medicine at the University of Heidelberg, where from 1811 to 1827, he served as head of the botanical garden.
- He was a devotee of the "nature-philosophy" espoused by Friedrich Schelling and Lorenz Oken.The plant genus Schelveria (Nees, 1827; family Scrophulariaceae) is probably named after him, although its etymology is seemingly unknown.
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