Albert Peter (botanist)

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Albert Peter

Gustav Albert Peter , called Albert Peter, (born August 21, 1853 in Gumbinnen , † October 4, 1937 in Göttingen ) was an East Prussian , German botanist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Peter ".

Life

Peter, the son of a master blacksmith, studied in Königsberg, where he received his doctorate in 1874 . Peter actually wanted to become a teacher, so he became assistant to Carl Nägeli at the University of Munich , whom he was supposed to help with a monograph on hawkweed , and private lecturer. In 1878 he became curator at the Munich Botanical Garden . From 1888 to 1923 he was professor and director of the Botanical Garden at the University of Göttingen. He laid out the Brockengarten in 1890 . With the gardener Carl Bonstedt (1866–1953) he set up the Victoria House for tropical plants. On expeditions in South and East Africa from 1913 to 1919 (during which he was interned at times during the First World War) and 1925/26 he collected plants for the garden and the Botanical Institute.

He wrote a flora of southern Lower Saxony and German East Africa (unfinished). Originally he had planned a much more extensive flora in Central Europe with ecological references, but did not receive the necessary funds and concentrated on Lower Saxony. Most of his Africa collection from the time of the First World War was lost, the collection from his second trip, which he was only able to edit in part, was lost in the Second World War in 1943. He was known for his outstanding lectures, for which he had instruction boards drawn and printed, which were widely used.

In 1888 he became a member of the Leopoldina and in 1889 of the Society of Sciences in Göttingen .

Honors

The plant genus Peterodendron Sleumer from the Achariaceae family is named after him .

Fonts

  • Above vessels and vessel-like structures in the wood, especially in the medullary sheath, a few dicots. Inaugural dissertation at the University of Königsberg. Longrien & Leupold, Königsberg 1874 ( Google Books ).
  • with Carl Nägeli : The Hieracies of Central Europe. Monographic processing of the piloselloids with special consideration of the Central European clans. Publisher R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1885 ( archive ).
  • Botanical blackboards. Paul Parey Publishing House, Berlin 1901.
  • Flora of southern Hanover along with the adjacent areas. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1901.
  • Aquatic plants and marsh plants in German East Africa . Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1928 ( digitized version ).
  • Flora of German East Africa. Dahlem / Berlin, 1929 to 1938.

literature

  • Gerhard Wagenitz : Göttingen biologists 1737–1945. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988.
  • Gerhard Wagenitz: "Albrecht Peter". In: Karl Arndt u. a .: Scholars from Göttingen . Wallstein 2001.

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Albert Peter's member's entry at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on August 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ 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 Peter, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peter, Gustav Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Gumbinnen
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1937
Place of death Goettingen