Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch

Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (5 March 1771 – 14 November 1849) was a German physician and botanist from Kusel, a town in the Rhineland-Palatinate.

Education

Koch studied medicine at the Universities of Jena and Marburg, and afterwards was a Stadtphysicus (state physician) in Trarbach and Kaiserslautern (1798). In 1824 he became a professor of medicine and botany at the University of Erlangen, where he stayed for the remainder of his life. At Erlangen, he was also director of the botanical gardens. In 1833, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Death

Koch died in Erlangen.^{[citation needed]}

Notable works

Among his better written efforts was a synopsis on German and Swiss flora titled Synopsis florae germanicae et helveticae (1835–37). Another noteworthy publication of his was Catalogus plantarum, quae in ditione Florae Palatinatus (Catalog of Palatinate flora) (1814).

Honours

He has been honoured in the naming of 2 plant genera; Eokochia (from the family Amaranthaceae),^[1] and Kochia (Chenopodioideae).^[2]

References

• "Koch, Wilhelm", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 16, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1882, pp. 402–405

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