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

  1. ↑ Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen, Volume 1 by Jan-Peter Frahm, Jens Eggers
  2. ↑ UNI-Goettingen Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants (with Herbarium)
  3. ↑ "Sentence based on translated text from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia".
  4. ↑ Google Books Flora von Westfalen
  5. ↑ Natur und Heimat; Floristische, faunistische und ökologische Berichte Westfälisches Museum für Naturkunde, Münster
  6. ↑ "Author Query for 'Beckh.'". International Plant Names Index.
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