Carl Friedrich Schmidt (1811)

Carl Friedrich (C.F.) Schmidt
Born 1811
Stettin, Kingdom of Prussia
Died 1890
Berlin, German Empire
Nationality German
Fields Botany, Botanical artist, Lithographer
Institutions University of Berlin

Carl Friedrich (C.F.) Schmidt (1811, Stettin  – 1890, Berlin) was a German botanist. He was a specialist in spermatophytes and a renowned artist and lithographer. He was also a prolific botanical artist (akademischer Künstler zu Berlin) who illustrated many of the Germanic botanical works of the 19th century.[1] The standard author abbreviation C.F. Schmidt is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

Biography

In collaboration with Otto Karl Berg (1815-1866), professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University,[3] Schmidt was published in Darstellung und Beschreibung in den Pharmacopoea Sämtliche Borussica offizinellen Gewächse aufgeführten (1853). Publisher: Arthur Felix, Leipzig[4] Schmidt both drew and lithographed the plates. Benjamin Daydon Jackson describes this work, a survey of plants used in the Prussian pharmacopoeia, as "A thoroughly good book, probably the very best of its class; both in text and illustrations".[5]

Berg and Schmidt also published the Pharmacopoea Borussica aufgeführten offizinellen Gewächse in 1846.[6][7]

C.F. Schmidt was a contributing artist to the work Köhler's Medizinal Pflanzen. Publisher: Gera-Untermhaus : F.E. Köhler, [1883-1914].[8][9] Medizinal Pflanzen was published in 1887 in Gera, an east-central German city south of Leipzig. The set of four volumes was a noteworthy achievement and included plants of medicinal interest from several European nations. It was described by Sitwell and Blunt[10] as "From the botanical standpoint the finest and most useful series of illustrations of medicinal plants."[11] Köhler's Medizinal Pflanzen was edited by Gustav Pabst, a German botanist. The remarkable feature of the publication is its nearly 300 finely detailed illustrations, expertly drawn by the artists L. Müeller and C.F. Schmidt, which were skillfully rendered by K. Gunther in chromolithography.[12] Chromolithography is the process of rendering images on stone or zinc plates, then inking them with color inks to yield color pictures.

It is remotely possible that C.F. Schmidt was the proprietor of the C.F. Schmidt Photography Studio in Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, in the mid 19th century. C.F. Schmidt, the botanical artist/lithographer, lived in Blankenburg am Harz, the village of his son's birth, in 1833.[13][14] The C.F. Schmidt Photography Studio in Halberstadt is 10 miles from Blankenburg. More research needs to be performed in this area to establish any connection.

Family

Born in Stettin, Kingdom of Prussia,[15] C.F. Schmidt would likely have been an acquaintance, perhaps even a close childhood friend, of Otto Karl Berg, who was also born in Stettin. It is with Berg, as adults, that Schmidt collaborated on several important scientific publications. Schmidt was four years older than Berg. In 1832 C.F. Schmidt married Christiane Johanne Kast.[16] They had at least one son, Johann Christian Julius Schmidt,[17] born in 1833 in Blankenburg am Harz, Germany.[18][19]

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ http://www.meemelink.com/prints_pages/prints.Lauraceae.htm
  2. ↑ "Author Query for 'C.F. Schmidt'". International Plant Names Index.
  3. ↑ http://www.meemelink.com/prints_pages/prints.Lauraceae.htm
  4. ↑ Otto Karl Berg
  5. ↑ http://www.meemelink.com/prints_pages/prints.Lauraceae.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.meemelink.com/prints_pages/prints.Lauraceae.htm
  7. ↑ http://lib.nmsu.edu/agnic/chile/index.shtml Botanical Prints of Capsicum
  8. ↑ http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/title.asp?relation=qk99a1k6318831914b1 Missouri Botanical Garden Library (MBG) Rare Books
  9. ↑ Köhler's Medicinal Plants
  10. ↑ http://www.hordern.com/pages/books/3203277/s-sitwell-w-blunt/great-flower-books-1700-1900-8230-great-flower-books-1700-1900-8230
  11. ↑ http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/title.asp?relation=qk99a1k6318831914b1
  12. ↑ http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/title.asp?relation=qk99a1k6318831914b1 Missouri Botanical Garden Library (MBG) Rare Books
  13. ↑ Staatsarchiv Hamburg
  14. ↑ Emigration paper from St. Michaelis Kirche
  15. ↑ Staatsarchiv Hamburg
  16. ↑ Staatsarchiv Hamburg
  17. ↑ http://obrockgenealogy.com/3488.html Genealogy of C.F. Schmidt
  18. ↑ Staatsarchiv Hamburg
  19. ↑ Emigration paper from St. Michael's Church, Hamburg, Germany

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