Adolf Pascher
Adolf Alois Pascher (born May 31, 1881 in Tusset , Austria-Hungary , † May 7, 1945 in Prague or Hirschberg ) was a Bohemian botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " Pascher ".
Life
Pascher was the son of a teacher, attended high school in Krummau and studied natural sciences at the German University in Prague, where he soon turned to botany and was a demonstrator from 1902. In 1905 he received his doctorate and in 1909 he completed his habilitation. With Viktor Langhans he founded a hydrobiological work center in Hirschberg in 1908. In 1912 he became associate professor for pharmaceutical botany and cryptography, in 1927 full professor (professor ad personam) and in 1933 director of the Botanical Institute and the Botanical Garden of the German University in Prague.
In the last World War he committed in 1945 on May 7 suicide .
Pascher was a well-known researcher in the field of freshwater algae and was an authority on the field of algae classification. For their systematics, he used his own precise observations on their organizational levels. He described numerous new species and genera, dealt with the symbiosis and genetics of algae and wrote monographs on the algae groups Tribophyceae ( yellow-green algae , hetero accounts) and Volvocales . He also published on nightshade plants .
In 1934 he became a member of the Leopoldina . He was a member of the Linnean Society of London and an honorary doctorate in Brussels (1934).
He was co-editor of the Archives for Protist Studies and the supplements to the Botanical Centralblatt . He also worked on the manual of plant anatomy by K. Linsbauer.
Honors
Are named after Pascher algae genera Pascherella W.Conrad , Pascheria W.Conrad , Pasch Erina P.C.Silva and Pascherinema G.De Toni .
Fonts
- as editor and co-author: Freshwater flora of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, from 1913, many volumes (from 1930 as freshwater flora of Central Europe )
- from Pascher u. a. Flagellatae with E. Lemmermann in volume 1/2 (1913/14) and Cyanochloridinae - Chlorobakteriaceae with L. Geitler in volume 12 (1925), Heterokontae-Phaeophyceae-Rhodophyceae (volume 11, 1925)
- Hetero accounts, 6 deliveries, ed. by R. Kolkwitz, in: Dr. L. Rabenhorsts Kryptogam-Flora Deutschlands, Österr. und der Schweiz 11, Lfg. 1–6, 1937–1939
literature
- Dieter Mollenhauer: Pascher, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 83 f. ( Digitized version ).
- H. Riedl: Pascher, Adolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 330.
- Autobiography in Archiv für Protistenkunde, Volume 98, 1953 (with catalog raisonné)
Web links
- Adolf A. Pascher's membership entry at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on December 7, 2015.
- Literature by and about Adolf Pascher in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 450.
- ↑ 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 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pascher, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pascher, Adolf Alois (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | bohemian botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tusset |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1945 |
| Place of death | Prague or Hirschberg |