Carl Christian Mez

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Guzmania lingulata (L.) Mez
Mez's grave in Freiburg's main cemetery, inscription on the right stone
Plate from Lauraceae Americanae

Carl Christian Mez (born March 26, 1866 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † January 8, 1944 there ) was a German botanist and university professor. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Mez ".

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Carl Christian Mez came from a family of industrialists in Freiburg. He was a grandson of the entrepreneur and politician Karl Christian Mez (1808–1877). Even as a high school student, Carl Mez was interested in botany and wrote an article about an Inula bastard.

He first studied from 1883 to 1884 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , switched to the University of Berlin for a semester and returned to Freiburg in 1886. He presented his dissertation on a topic on Lauraceae in Berlin, where he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD.

Mez married Therese (Thea) Jensen in 1860, the daughter of the writer Wilhelm Jensen . They had 5 children together, their eldest daughter Marie married the psychologist Narcissus Ach .

After a short stint at the Botanical Museum in Berlin , Mez went to the University of Breslau , completed his habilitation there and from 1890 worked as a private lecturer. In 1900 Mez became a full professor for systematic botany and pharmacognosy at the University of Halle and in 1910 a full professor for plant physiology at the University of Königsberg , where he also took over the management of the Königsberg Botanical Garden and retired in 1935.

Mez founded the magazine Das Botanische Archiv in 1922 and was its editor until 1938.

His main research areas were systematics and physiology . He also worked on taxonomy and morphology , especially of the Lauraceae, and introduced serology as a means of relational research. He also worked mycologically and wrote, among other things, papers on dry rot .

Honors

The plant genera Mezia Schwacke ex Niedenzu from the Malpighiae family (Malpighiaceae), Meziella Schindler from the thousand-leaf family (Haloragaceae), Mezilaurus Kuntze ex Taub. from the laurel family (Lauraceae), Mezochloa Butzin from the sweet grass family (Poaceae), Neomezia Votsch from the primrose family (Primulaceae) and Meziothamnus Harms and Mezobromelia L.B.Sm. , both from the bromeliad family (Bromeliaceae), have been named after him. In 1907 Mez was appointed a member of the Leopoldina .

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  • Lauraceae Americanae, monographice descripsit , Volume 5 of the Yearbook of the Royal Botanical Garden and the Botanical Museum , Bornträger, Berlin 1889.
  • Myrsinaceae . In A.Engler: Das Pflanzenreich, Leipzig [u. a.] 1902.
  • Microscopic examinations, prescribed by the German Pharmacopoeia: Guide for the microscopic pharmacognostic internship at universities and for self-teaching - Berlin: 1902
  • Theophrastaceae . In A.Engler: The Plant Kingdom. Leipzig [u. a.] 1903
  • The dry rot and the other wood-destroying fungi of human dwellings: their detection, importance and control . Dresden 1908.
  • Liability for dry rot and dry rot: a memorandum for builders, homeowners and lawyers ... . Berlin 1910.
  • On the theory of sero-diagnostics - Deutsche Verl.-Ges. for politics and history, Berlin 1925
  • Three lectures on the tribal history of the plant world with 1 family tree of the plant kingdom / 1925
  • Theories of Tribal History - Deutsche Verl.-Ges. For Politics and History, Berlin 1926
  • Attempt of a tribal history of the mushroom kingdom . Halle (Saale) 1928.
  • Bromeliaceae . In: A. Engler: The plant kingdom. Leipzig 1934–1935.

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Single references

  1. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names - Extended Edition. Part I and II. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin , Freie Universität Berlin , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5 doi: 10.3372 / epolist2018 .
  2. ↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1998. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
personal data
SURNAME Mez, Carl Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1944
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau