Karl Julius Perleb

Karl Julius Perleb (20 June 1794, Konstanz – 8 June 1845, Freiburg im Breisgau) (also known as Carl Julius Perleb) was a German botanist and natural scientist.

From 1809 to 1811, he studied at the University of Freiburg and attained a doctorate first in philosophy and 1815 in medicine. A stay in Vienna followed. In 1818, he returned to the University of Freiburg, and started post-doctoral fellowship. He remained at the University for the rest of his career. He became an associate professor for natural history in 1821, and in 1823 he became a full professor. From 1828 to 1845 he served as director of the Freiburg Botanical Garden. In 1838 he was appointed prorector at Freiburg University.

He was an author of numerous scientific publications and a friend of the Freiburg historian Heinrich Schreiber. The botanical genus Perlebia (synonym Bauhinia) is named in his honor.

Published works

• Versuch über die Arzneikräfte der Pflanzen, verglichen mit den äußeren Formen und der natürlichen Classeneintheilung derselben (1818); a German translation of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle's Essai sur les Propriétés médicales des Plantes comparées avec leur classification naturelle.
• De Horto Botanico Friburgensi (1829).
• Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte, (1831–1835) – Textbook of natural history.
• Clavis, classium, ordinum et familiarum atque index generum regni vegetabilis, (1838).

See also

University of Freiburg Faculty of Biology