Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (25 February 1792 – 12 February 1860) was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 botanist.

Born at Haselau

Haselau

Haselau is a municipality in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany....

, near Uetersen

Uetersen

Uetersen ) is a city in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approx. south of Elmshorn, and northwest of Hamburg at the small river Pinnau, close to the Elbe river...

, Holstein

Holstein

Holstein is the region between the rivers Elbe and Eider. It is part of Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany....

, Lehmann studied medicine in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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 and Göttingen

Göttingen

Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...

, obtained a doctorate in medicine in 1813 and a doctorate in philosophy from he University of Jena

Jena

Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. It has a population of approx. 103,000 and is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.-History:Jena was first mentioned in an 1182 document...

 in 1814. He spent the rest of his life as professor of physics and natural sciences at the "Gymnasium Academicum" in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

 and its head librarian.

A prolific monographist of apparently quarrelsome character, he was a member of 26 learned societies and the founder of the Hamburg Botanical Garden :de:Botanischer Garten Hamburg, now the Alter Botanischer Garten Hamburg

Alter Botanischer Garten Hamburg

The Alter Botanischer Garten Hamburg, sometimes also known as the Schaugewächshaus or the Tropengewächshäuser, is a botanical garden now located primarily within greenhouses in the Planten un Blomen park at Stephansplatz, Hamburg, Germany...

. Lehmann died at Hamburg in 1860.

Some of Lehmann's later illustrations were executed by the German entomologist Johann Wilhelm Meigen

Johann Wilhelm Meigen

Johann Wilhelm Meigen was a German entomologist famous for his pioneering work on Diptera.-Early years:Meigen was born in Solingen, the fifth of eight children of Johann Clemens Meigen and Sibylla Margaretha Bick. His parents, though not poor, were not wealthy either. The ran a small shop in...

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This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation Lehm. when citing

Author citation (botany)

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 a botanical name

Botanical name

A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar and/or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants...

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Publications

• WorldCat
• Generis Nicotiniarum Historia ... Hamburg 1818
• Plantae e Familiae Asperifoliarum Nuciferae 1818
• Monographia Generis Primularum ... Lipsiae 1819
• Monographia Generis Potentillarum 1820 Supplement 1836
• Semina in Horto Botanico Hamburgensi 1822-1840
• Icones et Descriptiones Novarum et Minus Cognitarum Stirpium in 5 parts of 10 plates each 1: 1821 2: 1822 3: 1823 4: 1823 5: 1824
• Novarum et Minus Cognitarum Stirpium Pugillus I-X Addita Enumeratione Plantarum Omnium in his Pugillus Descriptarum. Hamburgi 1828-1857
• Delectus Seminum quae in Horto Hamburgensium Botanico e Collectioni Anni1830-1840; 1849-1852
• Plantae Preissianae ... Hamburg 1844-1847
• Index Seminum in Horto Botanico Hamburgensi A. 1851 Collectorum. Hamburg 1851-1855
• Revisionem Potentillarum 1856