Luehmann, Johann Georg (1843 - 1904)

Summary

Johann Luehmann worked at the Botanical Museum of Melbourne under Ferdinand von Mueller from 1868 to 1896, initially as Clerk and later as Deputy Government Botanist. It was from Mueller that he received his botanical training, becoming expert in the genera Eucalyptus and Acacia. After Mueller's death in 1896 Luehmann was appointed Curator of the restyled National Herbarium of Victoria, only becoming Government Botanist in 1900. His field collecting resulted in over 400 specimens being deposited in the Herbarium. Luehmann was a foundation member of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria and served several terms on council including as Vice-President 1899 - 1901. His publications including a key to Eucalyptus and a paper on the identification of Victorian grasses.

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Chronology

1862

Life event - Migrated from Germany to Victoria, Australia

1868 - 1896

Career position - Assistant to Ferdinand Mueller; Melbourne Botanic Gardens

1869 - 1891

Career position - Clerk (Assistant Botanist), Botanical Museum of Melbourne

1878

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus luehmanniana Muell. was named in Luehmann's honour

1880 - 1882

Career position - Member of Council, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

1880 - 1904

Career position - Member, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

1891 - 1896

Career position - Deputy Government Botanist, Botanical Museum of Melbourne

1896 - 1900

Career position - Clerk, acting as Curator, National Herbarium of Victoria

1897

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus corrugata Luehm.

1897

Taxonomy event - Eucalyptus torquata Luehm.

1897 - 1899

Career position - Member of Council, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

1899 - 1901

Career position - Vice-President, Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

1900 - 1904

Career position - Government Botanist and Curator, National Herbarium of Victoria

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

National Herbarium, Melbourne

• Johann Georg Luehmann - Records, 1880 - 1899, MSS 12; National Herbarium, Melbourne. Details

Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre

• Johann Georg Luehmann - Records, 1896 - 1910; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

Book Sections

• Maroske, Sara, 'Germans at the Melbourne Botanic Garden and Herbarium, 1853-96' in Baron von Mueller's German Melbourne, Ellen I. Mitchell, ed. (Bundoora, Victoria: La Trobe University, 2000), pp. 24-34. Details

Journal Articles

• Rae, Ian D.; and Maroske, Sara, 'Ferdinand von Mueller's phytochemical laboratory', Historical Records of Australian Science, 31 (1) (2020), 26-38, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR19010. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5932934. Details
• 'Luehmann, J G (1843-19041118)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-568242. Details

See also

• Hall, Norman, Botanists of the Eucalypts: short biographies of people who have named eucalypts, whose names have been given to species or who have collected type material (Melbourne: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. Details
• Maiden, J. H., 'Records of Victorian Botanists', The Victorian naturalist, 25 (1908), 101-117. Details