Georg Adolf Suckow

Georg Adolf Suckow, sometimes written Adolph, was a German physicist, chemist, mineralogist, mining engineer and naturalist, born in Jena in 1751 and active until his death at Heidelberg in 1813. He was a professor of physics, chemistry and natural history at the University of Heidelberg and wrote many books and articles on chemistry, botany, zoology and mineralogy. His publications include a lecture programme on the usefulness of chemistry for civic life and economy for the electoral economic school at Lautern in 1775, a book on economic botany of 1777, a study of the effects of different kinds of air on vegetation of 1782, and a six volume textbook on the natural history of animals running from mammals to invertebrates. From 1808 he was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and his son Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Suckow was also a naturalist.