Wilhelm Ludwig Ewald Schmidt Explained

Wilhelm Ludwig Ewald Schmidt (4 May 1805 in (near Potsdam) – 5 June 1843 in Stettin) was a German physician, botanist, and entomologist. As an entomologist, he specialized in Coleoptera.^[1]

In 1828 he obtained his medical doctorate in Berlin; afterwards he taught classes at the Royal Gymnasium in Stettin.^[2] He was the first president of the Entomologischer Verein zu Stettin (Entomological Society of Stettin).

Works

• Flora Sedinensis, exhibens plantas phanerogamas spontaneas, etc.; with Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Rostkovius, 1824.
• Kurze Anweisung für junge Pharmaceuten das Studium der Botanik, 1830 - Short instruction for young pharmacists towards the study of botany.
• Getreue und systematische Beschreibung der officinellen Pflanzen der neuesten Preussischen Landes-pharmacopöe in abellarischer Uebersicht: Ein botanisches Handbuch für Studirende Mediciner und Pharmaceuten bearbeitet (T.C.F. Enslin, 1831) - Accurate and systematic description of officinal plants.
• Botanischer Wegweiser: oder praktische Unterweisung zweckgemäss das Studium der Botanik, 1837 - Botanical guide: or practical training purposes according to study of botany.
• Flora von Pommern und Rügen. Becker und Altendorf, Stettin, 1840 - Flora of Pomerania and Rügen.https://books.google.com/books?id=E8YXAAAAYAAJ&hl=en
• Verzeichniss europäischer Käfer, 1840 - Directory of European beetles.^[3]

References

• Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the Polish Wikipedia.

Notes and References

1. http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/187070.html Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - S
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333399#page/274/mode/1up BHL
3. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Wilhelm+Ludwig+Ewald+Schmidt%22 Google Search