death_date death_place birth_place birth_date image article_title name
1 august 1846 regensburg , germany vilsen , germany 15 december 1760 davidhoppe.jpg david heinrich hoppe
 david heinrich hoppe
david heinrich hoppe

david heinrich hoppe -lrb- 15 december 1760 -- 1 august 1846 -rrb- was a german pharmacist , botanist , entomologist and physician who was a native of bruchhausen-vilsen .
hoppe is remembered for contributions made to the study of alpine flora .
he began his career as a pharmacy apprentice in celle , and subsequently was an assistant pharmacist in hamburg , halle , wolfenbüttel and regensburg .
afterwards , he studied medicine and natural sciences at the university of erlangen , and following graduation returned to regensburg as a physician .
here he taught classes at the regensburg lyceum .
he studied the flora surrounding regensburg , and each summer between 1796 and 1843 made botanical excursions to salzburg and heiligenblut .
with bryologist christian friedrich hornschuch -lrb- 1793 -- 1850 -rrb- , he published a treatise involving an extended scientific journey to the adriatic coast and the mountains of carinthia and tyrol called '' `` tagebuch einer botanischen reise nach den küsten des adriatischen meeres und den gebirgen von kärnten , tirol und salzburg '' '' .
in may 1790 , hoppe founded the `` regensburgische botanische gesellschaft '' -lrb- regensburg botanical society -rrb- , the first botanical organization in bavaria , and presently is the world 's oldest existing botanical society .
from 1812 until his death in 1846 , he was its director/chairman .
he is credited for describing and naming over 200 plant species .
among his written efforts are a work on the flora of regensburg , titled '' `` ectypa plantarum ratisbonensium '' '' -lrb- 1787 -- 1793 -rrb- , and '' `` caricologia germanica '' '' -lrb- 1835 -rrb- , a book of german caricology that he published with engraver jacob sturm -lrb- 1771 -- 1848 -rrb- .
from 1818 to 1842 , he was editor of the popular journal `` flora '' .
in 1825 he collaborated with christian friedrich hornschuch , jacob sturm and jacob johann hagenbach to publish an illustrated work on alpine beetles entitled `` insecta coleoptrata , quae in itineribus suis , prasertim alpinis , collegerunt '' .
the plant genus `` hoppea '' from the family gentianaceae is named after him .
