Franz Joseph Schelver (24 July 1778 in

Osnabrück Osnabrück (; ; archaic English: ''Osnaburg'') is a city in Lower Saxony in western Germany. It is situated on the river Hase in a valley penned between the Wiehen Hills and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest. With a population of 168 ...

– 30 November 1832 in

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) was a German physician and

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

. He studied medicine at the

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, and later obtained his doctorate at the

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(1798). In 1801 he qualified as a lecturer at the

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, then from 1803 to 1806, worked as an associate professor at Jena. Afterwards, he was named a full professor of medicine at the

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, where from 1811 to 1827, he served as head of the botanical garden. He was a devotee of the " nature-philosophy" espoused by

Friedrich Schelling Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (; 27 January 1775 – 20 August 1854), later (after 1812) von Schelling, was a German philosopher. Standard histories of philosophy make him the midpoint in the development of German idealism, situating him be ...

and

Lorenz Oken Lorenz Oken (1 August 1779 – 11 August 1851) was a Germans, German natural history, naturalist, botany, botanist, biologist, and ornithology, ornithologist. Biography Oken was born Lorenz Okenfuss () in Bohlsbach (now part of Offenburg), Ortena ...

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The plant genus ''Schelveria'' (

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, 1827; family

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) is probably named after him, although its

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is seemingly unknown.

Published works

Early on, he maintained an interest in

entomology Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

, and published a number of treatises on the subject in Rudolf Wiedemann's ''Archiv für Zoologie und Zootomie''. In 1798 he was the author of a book on the

sense organs A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli. Although, in some cultures, five human senses were traditionally identified as su ...

of insects and worms, titled ''Versuch einer Naturgeschichte der Sinneswerkzeuge bei den Insecten und Würmern''. In the areas of nature philosophy, medicine and botany, he published the following: * ''Elementarlehre der organischen Natur'', first part ''Organomie'', 1800 – Elementary instruction on organic nature; organomics. * ''Philosophie der Medizin'', 1809 – The philosophy of medicine. * ''Kritik der Lehre von den Geschlechtern der Pflanze'', (1812, two sequels in 1814 and 1823) – Criticism of the doctrine on the sexes of plants. * ''Von der Sexualität der Planzen: Studien'' (with August Wilhelm Henschel) 1820 – On the sexuality of plants. * ''Lebens- und Formgeschichte der Pflanzenwelt'' (volume 1), 1822 – Life and form history of the plant world.Google Search
published works

References

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