Walter Eschrich

Walter Eschrich (born October 4, 1924 in Breslau ; † July 2, 2005 in Göttingen ) was a German botanist and forest scientist .

Life

Eschrich studied botany , zoology and chemistry at the University of Bonn in the 1940s . In 1953 he received his doctorate there , and in 1960 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on pharmaceutical botany.

After two years as a professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn , he became full professor of the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and director of the Institute for Forest Botany in 1968 . Among other things, he was visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and at the University of California (UC) in Davis . In 1992 he retired .

He became known in specialist circles, among other things, for the volume flow theory of phloem transport , which he founded in 1973 together with Ray F. Evert .

Works (selection)

• Contributions to the knowledge of the development of the wound sieve in Impatiens Hosti . Dissertation, University of Bonn 1953.
• Functional plant anatomy , Springer Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-540-59131-1 .
• Powder atlas of drugs in the German pharmacopoeia . Deutscher Apotheker-Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7692-3309-3 .
• Woods in winter . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-437-30802-5 .
• Strasburger's Little Botanical Internship for Beginners . Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-437-20154-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Eschrich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Walter Eschrich  in the German Digital Library