Albert Bösel

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Albert Bösel (born May 11, 1834 in Kosen , † June 13, 1920 in Friedrichroda ) was a German entomologist , botanist and school principal. His particular merit is the preservation and research of the salt flora and fauna in the Arterner Solgraben.

Life

He came from the Prussian saltworks town of Kösen on the Saale. After attending school, he began a pedagogical training. In January 1862 he became principal of the elementary school in Artern. His educational writings include a. the publication The natural history lessons in elementary school , which appeared in 1887 at the seminar conference on Eisleben in the German papers for educational teaching .

In his spare time he worked as an entomologist and botanist. He played a major role in the fact that the sol area in the salt ditch near Artern, with its rare animals and plants and a strongly salty spring, was given special protection as early as 1885. The salty water in the Arterner Solgraben created a flora that is more like a coastal flora. His research was a. a. the flora and fauna there, especially the Solbee ( Melitturga clavicornis ), which he endeavored to preserve.

The botanist and co-founder of plant ecology, Oscar Drude , described him as an “excellent connoisseur and guardian of halophilic organisms”. He also dealt with the various trees in the gardens and grounds of Artern and the surrounding area.

Albert Bösel was u. a. also active as a member of the Thuringian Botanical Association and the Geographical Society.

literature

  • Otto Rapp: The beetles of Thuringia with special consideration of the faunistic-ecological geography. Based on the literature, the contributions of numerous entomologists and own observations on behalf of the Academy of Non-Profit Science in Erfurt , Volume 3, 1935.
  • Klaus-Jörg Barthel, Jürgen Pusch: The autumn general meeting of the Botanical Association for the whole of Thuringia on September 27, 1885 in Artern and the role of Albert Bösel in the preservation of the salt flora at the Arterner Solgraben . In: Aratora. Journal of the Association for Local History, History and Protection of Artern eV [NF] , Vol. 12 (2002), pp. 107–113.
  • Klaus-Jörg Barthel, Jürgen Pusch: The botanists of the Kyffhäuser area. A contribution to the history of floristic research in North Thuringia and Southwest Saxony-Anhalt , 2005, pp. 58–61.
  • Klaus-Jörg Barthel, Jürgen Pusch: On the biography of the Arterner teacher, entomologist and botanist Albert Bösel (1834-1920) . In: Aratora . Journal of the Association for Local History, History and Protection of Artern eV [NF], Vol. 16 (2006), pp. 123–127.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The official protection took place only in 1935.
  2. ^ Arterner Solgraben at the Thuringian Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation .
  3. ↑ He also published about it.
  4. ↑ Oscar Drude : The Hercynian Florengebiet (= The Vegetation of the Earth: Collection of Plant Geographic Monographs, Volume 6), 1902, p. 392.
personal data
SURNAME Bösel, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bösel, Albert Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and school principal
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Kosen
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1920
Place of death Friedrichroda