Carl Friedrich Schmidt (artist)

Carl Friedrich (C.F.) Schmidt (1811, Stettin  – 1890, Berlin) was a German botanical artist. He was a specialist in spermatophytes and was a renowned botanical artist (akademischer Künstler zu Berlin) and lithographer who illustrated many of the Germanic botanical works of the 19th century. He is not to be confused with Carl Friedrich Schmidt, born 1832, the Baltic German geologist and botanist..[1] The standard author abbreviation C.F.Schmidt is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

Not to be confused with Carl Friedrich Schmid or Carl Friedrich Schmidt aka F.Schmidt aka Fedor Bogdanovich.

Carl Friedrich (C.F.) Schmidt
Born1811
Stettin, Kingdom of Prussia
Died1890
Berlin, German Empire
NationalityGerman
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, Botanical artist, Lithographer
InstitutionsUniversity of Berlin

Biography

In collaboration with Otto Karl Berg (1815-1866), professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University,[1] Schmidt was published in Darstellung und Beschreibung in den Pharmacopoea Sämtliche Borussica offizinellen Gewächse aufgeführten (1853). Publisher: Arthur Felix, Leipzig[3] Schmidt both drew and lithographed the plates. Benjamin Daydon Jackson describes this work, a survey of plants used in the Prussian pharmacopoeia, as "A thoroughly good book, probably the very best of its class; both in text and illustrations".[1]

Berg and Schmidt also published the Pharmacopoea Borussica aufgeführten offizinellen Gewächse in 1846.[1][4]

C.F. Schmidt was a contributing artist to the work Köhler's Medizinal Pflanzen. Publisher: Gera-Untermhaus : F.E. Köhler, [1883-1914].[5][6] Medizinal Pflanzen was published in 1887 in Gera, an east-central German city south of Leipzig. The set of four volumes was a noteworthy achievement and included plants of medicinal interest from several European nations. It was described by Sitwell and Blunt[7] as "From the botanical standpoint the finest and most useful series of illustrations of medicinal plants."[8] Köhler's Medizinal Pflanzen was edited by Gustav Pabst, a German botanist. The remarkable feature of the publication is its nearly 300 finely detailed illustrations, expertly drawn by the artists L. Müeller and C.F. Schmidt, which were skillfully rendered by K. Gunther in chromolithography.[5] Chromolithography is the process of rendering images on stone or zinc plates, then inking them with color inks to yield color pictures.

It is remotely possible that C.F. Schmidt was the proprietor of the C.F. Schmidt Photography Studio in Halberstadt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, in the mid 19th century. C.F. Schmidt, the botanical artist/lithographer, lived in Blankenburg am Harz, the village of his son's birth, in 1833.[9][10] The C.F. Schmidt Photography Studio in Halberstadt is 16 km from Blankenburg. More research needs to be performed in this area to establish any connection.

Family

Born in Stettin, Kingdom of Prussia,[9] C.F. Schmidt would likely have been an acquaintance, perhaps even a close childhood friend, of Otto Karl Berg, who was also born in Stettin. It is with Berg, as adults, that Schmidt collaborated on several important scientific publications. Schmidt was four years older than Berg. In 1832 C.F. Schmidt married Christiane Johanne Kast.[9] They had at least one son, Johann Christian Julius Schmidt,[11][12] born in 1833 in Blankenburg am Harz, Germany.[9][13]

  • Pharmacopoea Borussica aufgeführten offizinellen Gewächse
    Pharmacopoea Borussica aufgeführten offizinellen Gewächse
  • Pharmacopoea Borussica aufgeführten offizinellen Gewächse title page
    Pharmacopoea Borussica aufgeführten offizinellen Gewächse title page
  • Köhler's Medizinal Pflanzen, Volume 1 of 4
    Köhler's Medizinal Pflanzen, Volume 1 of 4
  • Köhler's Medizinal Pflanzen title page Volume 1
    Köhler's Medizinal Pflanzen title page Volume 1
  • Köhler's Medizinal Pflanzen title page Volume 2
    Köhler's Medizinal Pflanzen title page Volume 2
  • Bitter Orange
    Bitter Orange
  • Caladium
    Caladium
  • Hibiscus
    Hibiscus
  • Walnut
    Walnut
  • Lobelia
    Lobelia
  • Tomato
    Tomato
  • Black Ironwood
    Black Ironwood
  • Pitcairnia
    Pitcairnia
  • Scullcaps
    Scullcaps
  • Nasturtium
    Nasturtium

References
  1. "Lauraceae". www.meemelink.com. Archived from the original on March 30, 2019. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  2. International Plant Names Index.  C.F.Schmidt.
  3. Otto Karl Berg
  4. Library, New Mexico State University. "Chile AgNic". lib.nmsu.edu.
  5. "Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erläuterndem Texte : Atlas zur Pharmacopoea germanica". www.illustratedgarden.org. June 5, 2002.
  6. Köhler's Medicinal Plants
  7. www.bibliopolis.com. "Great Flower Books 1700-1900… by S. SITWELL, W. BLUNT on Hordern House Rare Books". Hordern House Rare Books. Archived from the original on April 6, 2015. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  8. "Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erläuterndem Texte : Atlas zur Pharmacopoea germanica". www.illustratedgarden.org. June 5, 2002.
  9. Staatsarchiv Hamburg
  10. Emigration paper from St. Michaelis Kirche
  11. "Obrock-Larson Genealogy". Archived from the original on April 6, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
  12. "Genealogy of C.F. Schmidt". Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved January 3, 2015.
  13. Emigration paper from St. Michael's Church, Hamburg, Germany

Bibliography
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