Friedrich Guimpel
Friedrich Guimpel (1 August 1774 in Berlin – 17 January 1839) was a German engraver and botanical illustrator.
An artist and professor at the Berlin Academy of Arts, he collaborated with several renowned botanists in the creation of illustrated botanical works.[1][2]
The species Berberis guimpelii was named in his honor by Karl Koch and Carl David Bouché. It is synonymous with Berberis chinensis.[3]
Lesser known is that Friedrich Guimpel also illustrated in colors a least one medical book: Carl Heinrich Weller Die Krankheiten des menschlichen Auges (Berlin 1819) and also the second edition of the same work in 1822.
Selected works
- Abbildung der deutschen holzarten für forstmäner und liebhaber der botanik, 1815 – 1820 (with Friedrich Gottlob Hayne; Karl Ludwig Willdenow) – Illustrations of German wood species for foresters and lovers of botany.
- Abbildung der fremden, in Deutschland ausdauernden holzarten für forstmänner, garten besitzer und für freunde der botanik, 1825 (with Friedrich Gottlob Hayne; Christoph Friedrich Otto).
- Abbildung und Beschreibung aller in der Pharmacopoea Borussica aufgeführten Gewächse, (with Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal) – Illustrations and descriptions of everything in the Pharmacopoeia Borussica listing of plants.
- Pflanzen-Abbildungen und Beschreibungen zur Erkenntniss officineller Gewächse, 1838 (with Johann Friedrich Klotzsch) – Botanical illustrations and descriptions of officinal plants.[4]
References
- ^ Google Books Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, oder, Nachrichten von dem ..., Volume 6.
- ^ BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ^ "Berberis guimpeli". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ^ WorldCat Search (publications)
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Guimpel.
