Albrecht Zimmermann

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Albrecht Wilhelm Philipp Zimmermann (born April 3, 1860 in Braunschweig , † February 22, 1931 in Berlin ) was a German botanist and mycologist . Its official botanical author's abbreviation is “ A. Zimm. "

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Zimmermann studied at the University of Leipzig, did his doctorate there, was a private lecturer from 1885 and gave lectures in Leipzig from 1885 to 1888. From 1888 he was a private lecturer and from 1894 an associate professor at the University of Tübingen. From 1896 to 1902 he was in what was then the Netherlands, Indonesia , where he studied applied botany (coffee cultivation) and mycology at the Botanical Garden in Buitenzorg . In 1902 he moved to German East Africa ( Tanganyika ) as deputy director of the Imperial Biological-Agricultural Institute in Amani (Tanzania) , which was officially opened in 1904 and whose director was Zimmermann from 1911 to 1920. When Tanzania became a British colony, he returned to Germany in 1920 to the Biological Reichsanstalt in Berlin-Dahlem, where he stayed until his retirement in 1925.

Initially he dealt with plant anatomy and plant physiology, later in his time in the tropics with applied botany, especially coffee.

He collected in Indonesia and East Africa, with most of his collections in Berlin being destroyed in World War II. The material he had left in Amani came to Nairobi in 1948 .

Honors

In his honor the orchid Oberonia zimmermanniana J. J. Smith from Java and several plants from Tanzania (such as Allophylus zimmermannianus , Streptocarpus zimmermannii , Cyphostemma zimmermannii ) were named. The plant genera Zimmermannia Pax and Zimmermanniopsis Radcl.-Sm. from the family of the Phyllanthaceae and the mushroom genera Zimmermanniella Henn. and Neozimmermannia Koord. are named after him.

In 1895 he became a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • The botanical microtechnology, Tübingen: Laupp 1892, archive , new edition Jena: G. Fischer 1922 (with Hans Schneider)
    • English translation: Botanical Microtechnique, New York: H. Holt 1893
  • Contributions to the morphology and physiology of the plant cell, 3 volumes, Tübingen: H. Laupp, 1893 Archives, Volume 1 , Archives, Volume 2, Issue 1
  • The morphology and physiology of the plant cell nucleus: a critical literature study, Jena: G. Fischer 1896
  • Korte opmerkingen over eenige ziekten en plagen van koffie en bijcultures, waargenomen op eenige koffielanden van Oost-Java, Batavia: G. Kolff 1900
  • Instructions for the cotton culture in the German colonies, Berlin 1910
  • Manihot rubber, its culture, extraction and preparation, Jena: G. Fischer 1913
  • The cucurbitaceae ..., Jena: G. Fischer 1922
  • Der Kaffee, Hamburg: German foreign publisher 1926
  • The acacia trees that produce the bark ... 1930

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lecturers at the University of Leipzig
  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 .
  3. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Albrecht Zimmermann
  4. ↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Albrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmermann, Albrecht Wilhelm Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1931
Place of death Berlin