Karl Julius Perleb

Karl Julius Perleb (20 June 1794, Konstanz – 8 June 1845, Freiburg im Breisgau) (also known as Carl Julius Perleb) was a German botanist and natural scientist.^[1]

From 1809 to 1811, he studied at the University of Freiburg and earned a doctorate in philosophy and in 1815 a degree in medicine. He lived in Vienna for a brief period of time. In 1818 he returned to the University of Freiburg and began a post-doctoral fellowship. He remained at the university for the remainder of his career. He became an associate professor of natural history in 1821, and in 1823 he became a full professor. From 1828 to 1845 he served as director of the Freiburg Botanical Garden.^[2] In 1838 he was appointed prorector at Freiburg University.

He was an author of numerous scientific publications and was a friend of Freiburg historian Heinrich Schreiber. The botanical genus Perlebia (synonym Bauhinia) is named in his honor.^[2]

Published works

• Versuch über die Arzneikräfte der Pflanzen, verglichen mit den äußeren Formen und der natürlichen Classeneintheilung derselben (1818); a German translation of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle's Essai sur les Propriétés médicales des Plantes comparées avec leur classification naturelle.
• De Horto Botanico Friburgensi (1829).
• Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte, (1831–1835) – Textbook of natural history.
• Clavis, classium, ordinum et familiarum atque index generum regni vegetabilis, (1838).^[1][3]

See also

University of Freiburg Faculty of Biology

References