Johann George Luehmann
Johann George Luehmann (12 May 1843 – 18 November 1904) was an Australian botanist, who served as the Assistant Botanist and, later, as the Curator at the National Herbarium of Victoria, and who also, from 1896, served as the Government Botanist of Victoria.
Johann George Luehmann | |
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 Johann George Luehmann (c.1880) | |
| Born | Johann Georg Lühmann May 12, 1843 |
| Died | November 18, 1904 (aged 61) |
| Resting place | Melbourne General Cemetery |
| Nationality | Naturalised British Subject in Victoria (1897)[1] |
| Spouse(s) | Flora Winifred Tivey (1854-1882) (m. June 1881) Maude Isolene Isabel Merchant (1865-1957) (m. 1891) |
| Parent(s) | Johann Christian Lühmann (father) Anna Lohmann (mother) |
| Awards | Fellow, Linnean Society |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany |
| Institutions | National Herbarium of Victoria |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Luehm. |
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Family
The son of Johann Christian Lühmann (1818-1890), and Anna Lühmann (1826-), née Lohmann, Johann Georg Lühmann was born in Ostmoorende, Prussia (now Moorende, Jork, Germany) on 12 May 1843.
He married Flora Winifred "Dora" Tivey (1854-1882) on 4 June 1881.[2][3] Flora died on 20 January 1882,[4] one week after delivering a stillborn daughter (on 13 January 1822).[5]
He married Maude Isolene Isabel Merchant (1865-1957) at South Yarra on 16 September 1891.[6][7][8] They had five children.[9]
Australia
1863
Luehmann emigrated to Australia in 1863, arriving in Melbourne in the White Star ship Queen of the South on 8 August 1863.[10]
He was one of a number of influential German-speaking residents — such as Ludwig Becker, Hermann Beckler, William Blandowski, Amalie Dietrich, Wilhelm Haacke, Diedrich Henne, Gerard Krefft, Johann Menge, Carl Mücke (a.k.a. Muecke), Ludwig Preiss, Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (a.k.a. Ruemker), Moritz Richard Schomburgk, Richard Wolfgang Semon, Karl Theodor Staiger, George Ulrich, Eugene von Guérard, Robert von Lendenfeld, Ferdinand von Mueller, Georg von Neumayer, and Carl Wilhelmi — who brought their "epistemic traditions" to Australia, and not only became "deeply entangled with the Australian colonial project", but also were "intricately involved in imagining, knowing and shaping colonial Australia" (Barrett, et al., 2018, p.2).[11] In 1895 he was the president of "The German Club of Victoria" (Deutschen Vereins von Victoria).[12]
Assistant Botanist: National Herbarium of Victoria
In 1867, following the resignation of von Mueller's secretary, Ernst Bernard Heyne, Luehmann was appointed as the assistant to Ferdinand von Mueller at the National Herbarium of Victoria in Melbourne;[13] and remained in the position until 1896.[14]
Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
He was a foundation member (on 17 May 1880) of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria,[15][16] and served as its vice-president from 1899 to 1901.[17]
Curator: National Herbarium of Victoria
Leuhmann was appointed Curator of the National Herbarium of Victoria following the death of Ferdinand von Mueller on 10 October 1896.[10]
Government Botanist of Victoria
A short time after von Mueller's death, Luehmann was appointed Victorian Government Botanist.[18]
Publications
- Reliquiæ Muellerianæ: Descriptions of New Australian Plants in the Melbourne Herbarium, The Victorian Naturalist (1896-1897):
- Luehmann, J.G., (1896a), "Acacia tysonii, (Luehmann)", The Victorian Naturalist, Vol.13, No.8, (November 1896), pp.111-112.
- Luehmann, J.G., (1896b), "Acacia cuthbertsonii, (Luehmann)", and "Acacia palustris, (Luehmann)", The Victorian Naturalist, Vol.13, No.9, (December 1896), pp.117.
- Luehmann, J.G., (1897a), "Eucalyptus torquata, (Luehmann)", The Victorian Naturalist, Vol.13, No.11, (February 1897), pp.117.
- Luehmann, J.G., (1897b), "Eucalyptus corrugata, (Luehmann)", The Victorian Naturalist, Vol.13, No.12, (March-April 1897), pp.168.
- Luehmann, J.G. (1898a), A Short Dichotomous Key to the Hitherto Known Species of Eucalyptus, Melbourne: Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Luehmann, J.G. (1898b), "Observations on Xerotes sororia, (F. v. Mueller)", The Victorian Naturalist, Vol.14, No.10, (10 February 1898), pp.147-148.
- Luehmann, J.G. (1898c), "Description of a new Australian labiate plant (Hemigenia macphersoni, (Luehmann))", The Victorian Naturalist, Vol.15, No.2, (9 June 1898), p.20.
- Luehmann, J.G. (1898d), "Some Observations on Pre-Linnean Botanists", The Victorian Naturalist, Vol.15, No.5, (8 September 1898), pp.50-58.
- Luehmann, J.G. (1901), "Description of a New Lobelia from Western Australia (Lobelia toppii, (Luehmann))", The Victorian Naturalist, Vol.17, No.9, (10 January 1901), p.169.
Death
He died, after a short illness, at his South Yarra residence on 18 November 1904,[19][20] and was buried at the Melbourne General Cemetery on 19 November 1904.[21][22]
Legacy
Luehmann Street
Luehmann Street, one of the original streets in Page, Australian Capital Territory was named after him in 1969.[23]
Species
Species named in his honour include:
- Acacia luehmannii, (F.Muell)
- Bassia luehmannii, (F.Muell)
- Casuarina luehmannii, (R.T. Baker, 1900)
- Darwinia luehmannii, (F.Muell. & Tate, 1896)
- Eucalyptus luehmanniana, (F.Muell., 1878)
- Leptospermum luehmannii, (Bailey, 1900)
- Phyllota luehmannii, (F.Muell.)
- Pultenaea luehmannii, (Maiden, 1905)
- Rhodobryum luehmannianum, (Müll. Hal.)
- Stipa luehmannii, (Reader)
- Syzygium luehmannii, (F.Muell.)
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Notes
- Johann George Luehmann in the Victoria, Australia, Index to Naturalisation Certificates, 1851-1928 (Certificate no.6495, date: 2 February 1897), at ancestry.com.
- "Marriage of Flora-Winifred-Tivey-and-Johann-Luckman Victoria Aus", Tivey-Family-Tree: Note that, as in other locations (such as the recently digitized records (e.g., 1550/1881; 13987/1904; 7666/1927, etc.) of the Victorian Births, Deaths, and Marriages) the handwritten entries of his family name on the marriage certificate have been consistently mis-read as either Luckmann or Luckman. The certificate (both in the registrar's hand and in Luehmann's hand) most definitely has Luehmann.
- Marriages: Bertram—Leuhmann, The Argus, (Saturday, 10 September 1927), p.13.
- Deaths: Luehmann, The Argus, (Saturday, 21 January 1882), p.1..
- Births: Luehmann, The Argus, (Wednesday, 18 January 1882), p.1.
- Marriages: Luehmann—Merchant, The (Melbourne) Herald, (Wednesday, 14 October 1891), p.2.
- Judicial and Law Notices: Frederick Leopold Merchant, The Argus, (Wednesday, 10 January 1917), p.5.
- Deaths: Luehmann, The Argus, (Friday, 4 January 1957), p.15.
- Personal, The Geelong Advertiser, (Saturday, 19 November 1904), p.2.
- "Luehmann, Johann Georg (1843–1904)". Australian National Herbarium. 9 August 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- In relation to "Australasia", another German-speaking explorer and geologist, Julius von Haast (1822-1887), was appointed as the inaugural Curator/Director of the Canterbury Museum, in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1867.
- (News item), Australische Zeitung, (Wednesday, 10 July 1895), p.5.
- See the letter from Luehmann, at the goldfields in Matlock, Victoria, to his father in Germany, dated 30 January 1869: Georg Luehmann to Johann Christian Luehmann, 1869-01-30 (M69.01.30) (R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller.
- "Luehmann, Johann Georg (1843 - 1904)". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- (News Items), The Argus, (Tuesday, 18 May 1880), p.5.
- News of the Day, The Age, (Tuesday, 18 May 1880), p.2.
- Victorian Field Naturalists' Club, The (Box Hill) Reporter, (Friday, 28 December 1900), p.2.
- Baron Von Mueller's Successor, The (Perth) Inquirer and Commercial News, (Friday, 20 November 1896), p.5.
- Deaths: Luehmann, The Argus, (Saturday, 19 November 1904), p.9.
- Judicial and Law Notice: Johann George Luehmann, The Argus, (Saturday, 3 December 1904), p.13.
- Funeral Notices: Luehmann, The Argus, (Saturday, 19 November 1904), p.9.
- 92/923 Johann G. Luehmann: Grant of Probate, Public Record Office Victoria; 92/923 Johann G. Luehmann: Grant of Probate, Public Record Office Victoria; and 92/923 Johann G. Luehmann: Grant of Probate, Public Record Office Victoria.
- "Australian Capital Territory: National Memorials Ordinance 1928-1959: Division of Page", Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No.96, (Thursday, 20 November 1969), pp.6935-6938.
- International Plant Names Index. Luehm.
References
- Barrett, L., Eckstein, L., Hurley, A.W. & Schwarz A. (2018), "Remembering German-Australian Colonial Entanglement: An Introduction", Postcolonial Studies, Vol.21, No.1, (January 2018), pp.1-5. doi:10.1080/13688790.2018.1443671
- Anon (1904), "The Late J.G. Luehmann, F.L.S.", The Victorian Naturalist, Vol.21, No.8, (8 December 1904), pp.108–109.