Adolf Theodor Mayer

Adolf Theodor Mayer (born September 17, 1871 in Tübingen ; † January 26, 1952 there ) was a German pharmacist and botanist.

In April 1890 Mayer started his apprenticeship in his father Wilhelm Mayer's pharmacy (Mayersche-Apotheke Tübingen). After the pre-examination and military service, he worked in Wangen im Allgäu and Weinsberg . Adolf Mayer studied pharmacy at the University of Tübingen and passed his state examination there in 1897.

He then worked for several years in the Hagenbach Pharmacy in Basel . In 1902 Mayer returned to his father's pharmacy . On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the mathematics and natural science faculty of the University of Tübingen awarded him the title of Dr. awarded in the natural sciences hc.

Mayer was one of the most important Swabian pharmacists and botanists and an excellent expert on Swabian flora . He wrote his “Flora of Tübingen and Surroundings” at a young age, which was later followed by others. These works are characterized by a precise knowledge of the plant locations and gave precise information about the origin of the individual plants. Mayer was entrusted with the inspection and organization of the Tübingen University Herbarium, which contains 20,000 plants. He has also carried out excursions for students and young pharmacists for over 25 years on behalf of the Chamber of Pharmacists. Mayer et al. Published numerous botanical treatises. a. in the Süddeutsche Apotheker-Zeitung. After his death, his own herbarium was bought at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart.

His name is immortalized in Mayer's Sommerwurz ( Orobanche alsatica subsp. Mayeri ), which he discovered in the Swabian Alb.

Fonts

• Flora of Tübingen and the surrounding area. Tubingen 1904.
• Excursion flora of the University of Tübingen. Tubingen 1930.
• Excursion flora from southern Württemberg and Hohenzollern. Stuttgart 1950.

literature

• Wolfgang-Hagen Hein, Holm-Dietmar Schwarz: German Pharmacist Biography Supplementary Volume I
• Martin Engelhardt, Siegmund Seybold: The collectors of fern and flowering plants of the herbarium of the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart (STU) . Annual books of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg. 165th year - part 2. Stuttgart 2009. Pages 103–104 (with photo) .ISSN 0368-2307