Carl Ernst August Weihe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German botanist
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Place of Birth: Mennighüffen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Carl Ernst August Weihe
- Carl Ernst August Weihe (1779–1834) was a German botanist and physician. Weihe was born on 30 January 1779 at Mennighüffen, the second of 12 children born to KarlJustus Weihe (1752-1829), a pastor, and his wife Anna (née Rebeker).
- As he later described himself as "Mindensis", it is probable that he received his schooling at the Gymnasium in Minden.
- Weihe was apprenticed to a pharmacist in Bielefeld, before attending the university at Halle, where he studied medicine and botany, receiving his doctorate in September 1802.
- He worked as a doctor at Lüttringhausen (near Remscheid) and Bünde, before moving back to Mennighüffen, where he established a small botanical garden on land owned by his father.
- In 1822, Weihe moved to Herford, where his children were at school, and where he died in 1834.During his career Weihe described some 160 new plant species.
- In particular, he made important contributions to the study of the genus Rubus.
- Weihe was the first to realise that the bramble, Rubus fruticosus, was not in fact a single species but a complex of similar species; among specimens collected in the vicinity of his home at Mennighüffen he distinguished 18 separate species.
- Between 1822 and 1827, Weihe and his collaborator, Christian Gottfried Nees von Esenbeck, a taxonomic botanist, published a monograph of the German brambles, Rubi Germanici descripti et illustrati, in which they described 49 species of Rubus.The genus Weihea (now treated as a synonym of Geissorhiza) was named in his honour.
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