COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Schouw, Joakim Frederik, 1789-1852
Date:
1822
Short Title:
Tab. 8 [Proof State of J.F. Schouw's Botanical Atlas] Plantegeographiske Atlas -- Originalexemplar
Publisher:
Jens Hostrup Schultz
Publisher Location:
Copenhagen
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
44
Obj Width cm:
76
Scale 1:
35,000,000
Note:
Date estimated.
World Area:
Western Hemisphere
World Area:
Eastern Hemisphere
Subject:
Botany
Full Title:
Tab. 8 [Proof State of J.F. Schouw's Botanical Atlas] Plantegeographiske Atlas -- Originalexemplar
List No:
15998.009
Series No:
9
Publication Author:
Schouw, Joakim Frederik, 1789-1852
Pub Date:
1822
Pub Title:
[Proof State of J.F. Schouw's Botanical Atlas] Plantegeographiske Atlas -- Originalexemplar
Pub Note:
"Apparent proof state of J.F. Schouw's monumental Botany Atlas, the first attempt to systematically illustrate the distribution of plants around the world. Consisting of 22 maps (11 pairs of hemispheres and 2 unpaired hemispheres), the work seeks to illustrate the distribution and location of categories of plants. The work would later be published at Plantegraphisk Atlas by Jens Hostrup Schultz in Copenhagen in 1824, with a title page and text explaining the map. A german language edition of the maps would also be issued. The present atlas includes a significant amount of handwritten annotations and some variances in the coloring of the maps. Both the title on the cover of the atlas ("originalexemplar") and the differences between the final published version of the atlas and this example strongly suggest that this was a precursor to Schouw's publication of the Danish edition of the atlas in 1824.. Joakim Frederik Schouw Biography Danish lawyer, botanist and politician. From 1821, professor in botany at the University of Copenhagen. His main scientific field was the new discipline of phytogeography. He also served as director of Copenhagen Botanical Garden in 1841-1852. He was a leading figure in the National Liberal movement and president of the Danish Constituent Assembly in 1848. He was already a lawyer when he in the summer of 1812 travelled to Norway with the Norwegian botanist Christen Smith. On this journey, he was impressed with the conspicuous zonal division of the mountain vegetation and distribution of plant species in relation to altitude. Back in Copenhagen, he attended the lectures given by Martin Vahl and J.W. Hornemann. While working a lawyer, he delved into the copious literature on plant geography, e.g. by Wahlenberg and von Humboldt. The first result of his efforts was a doctoral dissertation (1816): Dissertatio de sedibus plantarum originariis. In this thesis, he dealt with the question of Generatio aequivoca, that is the origin of species through continuous evolution, a view he advocated. He was then given a travel grant to study phytogeography in Southern Europe and to visit A. P. de Candolle in Geneva. The expectations of his scientific potential were so great that King Frederik VI granted him an extraordinary professorship of botany at the University of Copenhagen. In 1822, his most significant contribution was published: Grundtræk til en almindelig Plantegeographie. Copenhagen, Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag. A German translation was published the following year in Berlin: Grundzüge einer allgemeinen Pflanzengeographie, Berlin 1823. He planned a great work and gathered material for it during two journeys to Italy. However, he never had time to continue his work. Together with Jens Vahl and Salomon Drejer, Schouw served as the publisher of Flora Danica fasc. 38. He succeeded Jens Wilken Hornemann as director of Copenhagen Botanical Garden in 1841-1852. In 1841, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In the 1830s and 1840s, Schouw was one of the main leaders of the political movement that led to the first democratic constitution of Denmark, the June Constitution of 1849. The king appointed him as a representative for the university for the first Roskilde Provincial Assembly in 1834 (a, a recognition of the growing importance of the liberal movement (but he belonged to the moderate wing), where he was immediately elected as its president with 37 votes against 18 votes to Lauritz Nicolai Hvidt and 11 votes to the Conservative bishop J. P. Münster. He was later reelected at Viborg Provincial Assembly with all votes against one and was reelected until 1840 when he was no longerappointed by the king, probably as a result of the government's discontent with his claim of the Provincial Assembly's independence. He was much engaged in Scandinavism and in the Schleswig-Holstein Question. He was a member of the 1848 Danish Constituent Assembly but refused to become a minister because he, unlike the government, favoured the division of Schleswig. He published Dansk Ugeskrift in 1831–36 and again 1842–46, followed by Dansk Tidsskrift 1847–50." (Ruderman, 2024)
Pub List No:
15998.000
Pub Type:
Thematic Atlas
Pub Maps:
22
Pub Height cm:
44
Pub Width cm:
39
Image No:
15998009.jp2
Authors:
Schouw, Joakim Frederik, 1789-1852
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