Education
University of Göttingen.
University of Göttingen.
In 1825 he became head of a local pharmacy in Blankenburg am Harz, where he remained its director until 1864. During his time at Blankenburg, Hampe collected and studied flora native to the Harz Mountains. He was particularly interested in mosses, and through his association with bryologist Karl Müller (1818-1899), he became exposed to non-European species from the Americas, Madagascar, New Zealand, Australia, et al.
In his collaborative research with Müller, he described numerous new bryological species.
Later in life, Hampe received an honorary professorship from the University of Göttingen. After Hampe"s death, his large herbarium was acquired by the British Museum of Natural History.
The plant genus Hampea from the family Malvaceae was named in his honor by Dietrich von Schlechtendal (1794-1866).
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.